to most people my life might look kind of boring I leave the house like once or twice a week unless you can't go to the gym but uh that's about a 30second drive away and often I have agreed with them I feel like I should be doing more stuff I should be traveling more I should be doing more stuff at work I should be trying to make more money I should have better more exciting hobbies and activities that I do on Friday night maybe I should like actually leave the house I've often felt like almost
embarrassed at the fact that my life is so like average and boring and I don't do it kind of stuff and people asked me how my week was and what I did and I'm like you know I just I was home and like I shot a video you know it was chill and because of that feeling I actually have kind of gone the other way I've experimented to see if doing more stuff and traveling more and and spending money and doing all the stuff that I see other people do would give me a little bit
more fulfillment or is that the life that I want to live this past year uh we even took a month and we traveled through Europe we hit like five or six different countries we saw some absolutely amazing things it was a great experience but it was actually from that trip and a couple other trips that we have taken that I realized having a boring routined Driven Life Is Not only just okay it's kind of what I want even if people make fun of me for it or it's kind of weird to explain and at least
some of the reason I was doing the things that I was doing was for other people it was because that's what I saw other people do on Instagram once you're successful you do this and this and this you travel you get a nicer house nicer car uh maybe you go shopping you go out and you have some drinks with some friends you do all these things and that's what a happy person is supposed to do that's what a successful person is supposed to do and I tried those because most of my life I've worried about
what other people thought of me and I thought I should be doing this stuff this is what like I'm supposed to be doing but at least for me it wasn't the answer and maybe it's because I'm like super introverted I'm kind of a homebody and while I do enjoy traveling or going out with friends and stuff I also love just being home having my normal routines living a kind of boring and simple life for me that's all I want and I really realized this a couple weeks ago when Meredith took me away uh to a
cabin up in the mountains for just one day for my birthday and we actually ended up leaving earlier than we had to because we wanted nothing more than to go home and live our lives to make some sourdough bread to spend some time with our daughter I wanted to just go back and make videos that I'm passionate about that can hopefully help somebody and I realized that a goal of mine that I had set for myself years ago and been putting all these processes into place in order to build had finally kind of happened I
had built a life that I didn't want an escape from I love Monday mornings and don't overly love the weekends cuz they mess up my week and it didn't like happened by accident this was something conscious that I've been trying to do for an extremely long time to build this life that I don't want an escape from I think I finally got there which is crazy like I look forward to the little boring things in my life to waking up Monday morning having a cup of coffee sitting in front of the fire reading my book
and then you know going to the gym working for a couple hours spending the rest of the time uh with my family do a few things outside play some video games with my friends like it's a boring routine driven simple life but for me it's just as fun and just as fulfilling as touring Europe was which is crazy because I thought I like wanted to travel uh until I did it and then I realized that well I still want to travel probably at least like a month a year to experience different cultur I don't want
to hit five countries or six countries in a month I want to hit maybe one to two countries and really live there and just have a simple life but somewhere else not here just chill have all my routines but somewhere else and I think that uh is really what I found is really fulfilling for me it's not what everybody wants to do most people want to go out snorkel Skydive Tour all the touristy places see the Coliseum and well that was great for me the quiet Countryside in Ireland on a farm doing like literally nothing
and just walking around the small town was way more enjoyable which might make me weird but I don't I don't really care but this also doesn't mean that I don't have goals or dreams I'm not trying to better myself and I'm just like chilling although it might look like that to a lot of people like I still have things that I I'm dreaming about and I'm pushing for like we hope to get a farm uh in the next 2 to 5 years to have chickens and goats and farm stuff which I'm excited to do and
and to share with you guys I have side projects I'm trying to build up this YouTube channel I'm trying to help a couple other people build up their channel so they can live this type of Lifestyle once I hit half a million subscribers I'm going to be getting a Tesla but I know that none of those things will actually make me happy they're not going to be the answer they're not going to change my life they'll be fun to do but I'm also not going to wait for them there's this quote that I've been living
my life by for 6 or seven years now and that is that the Future Never Comes life is always now I think it's by ekar toi and why I think this is stuck out to me so much is because I didn't used to live my life this way I would live for the future I would look for my next house and then then I'll be happy once I leave my job then I'll be happy once we you know have a kid then I'll be happy once we travel for a month then I'll be happy it
was all these things and it turns out that the happiness or the Fulfillment or just like the I've made it part of life comes in enjoying the Small Things the everyday boring part of life which is 90% of Our Lives if you can learn to enjoy sitting in traffic on the way to work and not have it be stressed out but have it be some quiet time or sometime you can listen to something if you can enjoy your morning cup of coffee and actually taste it if you can take years to build something up so
that you can enjoy the work that you do feel like it's fulfilling to you it's helping people it's fun to do I don't know I think most people never actually try to get to those things they just always look forward to what's next or they look past to what's behind them and very few people actually live in the present moment a big cause for this is actually social media which is I think what tricked me it was seeing all these successful people living the successful Standard Life like if you're a successful YouTuber you travel you
have money you buy a new Tesla which is probably where that subconsciously came from you do all these certain things and that's when you've made it when you're cool when you're whatever and I've tried a bunch of those things and that is not what life is all about so if you want to build that type of Life ask yourself what would an ideal day actually look like if I could do whatever I wanted regardless of money for a day for a week for a year what would that be and then break down the steps in
order to get to that is that talking about a subject that you love then start a YouTube channel is it creating Pottery then start learning how to do that so many of us have these dreams of this ideal simple life or something that we want to do but we get stuck in the grind and looking into the future and once I get my promotion once I get this or that or move or whatever then I'll start trying to chase this life that I'll actually enjoy but you can build that type of life on the nights
and the weekends and it can be really cool this book actually really helped me um kind of do that and I attribute a lot of the success I have had um to this book which maybe I'll do a whole like book review on sometime um but it's called the one thing this really talks about defining your goals defining your dream life and then doing one thing every single day to get you closer to that dream life so for me for the past 5 plus years I've done one thing for YouTube Every Single Day 365 days
a year even if it's as small as writing down a video idea I do one thing to uh improve the thing that is the biggest Catalyst to change in my life at least financially and and freedom wise and that is my YouTube channel it's not about crazy hours or grinding all the time it's about doing small things for an extended period of time that leads to massive change in your life and this book really helped with that I've also been like really enjoying uh YouTube a lot so I'm making a free 7-Day like how to
start a YouTube channel course uh there's a link for that down below I've realized this is where I have most of my skills is in finance and YouTube and I want to just help more people in both of those areas cuz that really improves your life it improved my life so thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe and we see you next week
