In this episode, we discuss the importance of moving fast in life on your life’s purpose.
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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, where my goal is to give you quick lessons on how to grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually so you can have better careers, better relationships, and better personal finances.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones.
In today’s episode we’re going to talk about the importance of moving fast in life. Time is something that I think about a lot. I’m in my 30s now and I keep wondering where my 20s went. I did a lot of stuff in my 20s but it went by so so fast. I felt like I did everything I could do based on my goals, but there is so much out in the world that we can enjoy. There is a quote by Tai Lopez who says it’s better to gulp on life than to sip on it. If you constantly sip on life, there might come a point in your life where you’re close to death and realize that your glass is still completely full. That is a scenario that I don’t want to have to deal with and it can cause a problem like leaving a loved one on life support that has no chance of coming back. There are still unresolved issues and things that said were going to get done but never did. Then this causes emotional stress and financial stress because people throw money at a solution where there is no hope of getting it back. I saw this a lot as a financial advisor where parents were spending so much money on their parent’s long term care and it caused a lot of credit card debt or them dipping into retirement accounts. Maybe they sipped on life and now they are trying to gulp a gallon of water in two-second instead of taking smaller gulps over a 40 to 50 year period. One way is going to ensure the glass is empty at the end of life and the other could drown you.
So realizing this, I just make sure that I’m doing things that I want to gulp on like working on my business, spending time with family and friends, writing, and reading. You also have to realize that it takes roughly 10,000 hours to become a master in something and the more hours you put in, the faster you become a master in a subject. If you put 2 hours in your craft five days a week. It will take you ten years to become a master in that subject. If you put in four hours a day, you will become master in about five years, and if you put in 8 hours a day into your craft, you’ll become a master in about 2 and a half years. Whatever you’re trying to accomplish, you have to understand that the standard pace is for chumps. I got that line from Derek Sivers where he was able to cram four years worth of music school in two years. There were some shortcuts he was able to take by buying a textbook in advance, studying it, and asking a professor to take the final now instead of waiting until the end of the semester. He also had a mentor to tell him what to do and how he could finish faster.
If you can do something in 2 years, why are you going to wait to do it in four years? This is sipping on life and you have to realize that you don’t have all day to get every last drop from your glass. When I was in the Marines, they gave us free tuition to go to school and I took advantage of that program. I spent six years basically going to night school take 2 classes at a time so by the time I got out I was already a senior and needed one more year of school to finish. There were many Marines that didn’t go to school and wanted to wait until they were out before they started. So by the time they were 26, they were in a freshman class surrounded by 18 years. You feel like Billy Madison in that situation. But then you might graduate from college at 30 or 31, then then you’re going to find a career after that. I don’t think you need a formal education to make it in life but you need to be doing something to improve it. Just because you went into the military doesn’t mean people will be lining up to give you opportunities. You have to continue to earn them. This is what I experience once I got out of the Marines, people don’t really understand how the skills you learned in the military help you out in the civilian world. So you have to take extra time to learn how to translate those skills or show people how it’s done. But don’t wait until your 30s to get started. Start as soon as possible. Remember your 20s are for learning and your 30s for earning. So gulp as much as you can on learning because it can pay off in the future. It’s not guaranteed but it can increase your likelihood of success.
I’m in my 30s now and I’m still gulping. I take the time to figure out my craft and see how I can become better. If I would have taken it easy, I would be 10 years behind than from the point I am at right now. I’ve read over 200 books, I’ve listened to over 5000 hours of podcast episodes, I have two bachelors, I’ve written one book, and I should be done with book two and three this year. I’ve created 32 podcast episodes and I’m working on creating videos now. So I’m gulping on life and trying to get everything together so when I leave this planet, my glass will have no drops in it. If you want to have a great life, start gulping. Do more work today than you did the previous month. You’re going to have hard weeks but you’ll get great days and those great days will make up for all those hours you put it. To me, there is nothing worse than wasted potential. There are so many great things we didn’t see in the world because people didn’t gulp on life and decided to take it easy and then comes a point where there is regret. If you’re satisfied with that life, then you’re good in my book, just don’t complain about not having something, you got to work for it and start gulping.
To summarize today’s episode, don’t live like you’re going to live forever because no one out of this world makes it out alive. So figure out who you need to be as a person and then be that person. Be that person as much as you can so you can stay true to yourself and not have any regrets in life.
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