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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons that you can reflect on in your journal so you can grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and have a better career, better relationships, and better personal finances while you enjoy your morning cup of coffee.
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. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
In today’s episode, we are going to discuss how if we want freedom, control, and flexibility in our lives, we need to master ourselves first. I would like to thank the college for introducing me to learning. I remember being in this one class about family studies, and we read the book Random Family, which was about a Puerto Rican family in the 1980s. There was love, drugs, and trouble for these real characters in the Bronx. It taught me things about the family structure that I wasn’t aware of. Then in my Health Economics class, I was introduced to the Economist and that’s probably why I went off to get my degree in Economics.
I don’t know how I was introduced to podcasts, but I remember listening to these Spanish learning podcasts as I was trying to prepare myself to do a study abroad in Mexico. I guess I just started listening to other podcasts. I remember listening to a lot of Planet Money and Freakonomics radio.
But after I graduated from college, I moved to DC and I found myself in a career that I hated, but I was still listening to podcasts and there was a Freakonomics episode that was about the upside of quitting. So then I quit my job and went back to school, but I kept on listening to podcasts and reading books to expand my horizons. Then with every book, podcast, and course that I took, it just let me know more about myself and what I should be doing with my life.
I feel like I have a pretty good grasp over life and I’m just living my best life here in Colombia. Since I work on myself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually every day, I’m able to overcome a lot of issues that come my way and I’m able to achieve a lot of great things in my life.
To have this control and flexibility in my life, I need to be strong internally. There is no way I could travel the world, run my own business, and live my best life if I didn’t have mastery over myself. I really love this life that I have and I would never want to go back to my old 9-5 life.
No one tells me when to wake up, where to be when I can take time off, and what I should do in my do. I get to decide all these things, but to have this power, I need to know how to control this power. I do need to be disciplined with my life, but I enjoy the things I work on and it gives me a lot of satisfaction. But I need to work on my financial planning skills, my soft skills, and make sure that I don’t let my ego get in the way of my success.
It takes work and not every day is a great day, but that pain is only temporary. I was suffering when I was doing my 9-5 life, and that is something that we need to learn how to do. Embrace the pain which teaches how to be better, and let go of the suffering that is manageable, but zaps us of all our suffering. This takes self-mastery and realizing that we can get past the pain.
Success doesn’t happen overnight, but when you reach self-mastery, you’ll appreciate the journey you made.
And that’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, no man is free who is not a master of himself as Epictetus said 2000 years ago. We can not truly be free as people unless we reach self-mastery over our lives. This is why I work on myself physically so that I can use my body in every situation. I work on myself mentally so that I can think my way out of situations and take advantage of opportunities. I work on myself emotionally so I don’t allow my ego to sabotage myself, and I work on myself spiritually so that I live a fulfilling life that isn’t wasteful. Things will be cloudy in the beginning when we are still amateurs, but with enough time and effort, we will eventually have the freedom that we desire. No need to live a life where we are strapped down by chains.
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