I would say that the last 24 months of yours have been the best ever.
Yeah, they've been dealt. Can't can't lie and that's great. And I share that because you know, it's okay for things to be good. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to do. You want to start? You want to start some New Year's Eve stuff and then we go from there. Yeah. All right. So you looks like you do resolutions or something like that. So
tell you I posted that in here. I don't want.
I mention all the numbers, but
are you a Serial Resolute ER like do you do this every
year or not? Yeah, I do every. So yeah, I do it every year and I so basically I have it into a few categories, its body, money-minded Venture random.
And where'd you get it from? That? Didn't seem like you. That seems like you got that from somebody. I made that up, you did. Okay. All right. I like that. Why? I thought, like, I don't know, like, ramit Sethi or some. I thought like that seems just like, very frame worked out. I feel like you would borrow
them. No, that's mine. That's mine. And the reason I keep
I keep that thing at the top of my of all my notes. So I, yeah, I'm always using that. So yeah. Yeah, I hit it. And I usually always can
were body money. Mind adventure, and random. Is that right? Yeah. All right. So, walk me through. And by the way, do you usually hit these? Because I think there's this famous thing, like, January 18th is international quitters day, because that's how long most resolutions last about 18 days or something like that. It's like 28:18 20th 21st, something like that. Most people don't even make it three weeks.
Yes, and that's why, you know, resolutions are a little bit. There's something there's something underneath it. That's, that's a crumbling Foundation. But you seem like an achiever who
I analyze why? I don't hit all my hit 70% 75%. I hit most of them like this year. I wanted to do some athletic stuff, but I got hurt and so getting hurt, was the only reason why I wasn't able to get it done. But other than that, yeah, I'll come down. So I'll say him. So body, 12%, body fat, 20-minute 5K, 35 introvert. And then my first real boxing match money. I won't hit a certain amount just in index funds. I want to invest a certain amount.
Don't be a my Syndicate. I want to make $1 outside of my main core competency. And I want to understand my spending dude. I struggle to track how much I spend each month, and I want to figure that out. Do you struggle with that?
I don't struggle with that, but I struggle with, I've just learned the value of bookkeeping and this past year. Like now that now that my business life is a lot more complex because I used to be all in on one startup and we had somebody who did payroll books matters books all that and then it was like, okay then I've had a job before and we have a job.
You just get your W-2 and that's it. You go on your way. And now that I have like multiple businesses at things like this. I'm like fuck a bookkeeper is like actually one of the most critical hires because it tells you about your spending and what's money in Money out. But more importantly, it's like prevention, rather than the Cure you prevent having problems when it comes to taxis in a cash flow planning because you're on top of things rather than trying to reconcile shit at the last
minute. So, it's, yes, I agree with all that. It's just hard for personal stuff because
It's hard for a bunch of reasons. So I got to figure that out. And then for mind, I want to pick one thing to focus on. I gotta figure out a little bit focused. I tend to read a lot, but often I read stuff just to make to improve my life. But really, I just, I want to read for fun a lot more than I have. I want to get become far, more comfortable with money. I think I've got a pretty unhealthy relationship with how I view money. I have somewhat of a scarcity mindset, and I want to focus more on creating a schedule. I've been real loose with my schedule lately and it finally have more fun. I don't think I have it.
A fun and I need to lighten up
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dude. I'm pretty like uptight. And it finally Adventure. All right, so I want to go to a self-defense gun class. I'm going to take a motorcycle trip in two weeks. I want to go hunting for the first time. I want to camp more, and I want to take a rally car class. That's what I wanted.
Those are good. I like that. You have these two categories adventure and random. I don't think most people have Adventures that they want to go on and random and their life, which is they should, I think it's a Miss. Yeah, if you do
so, my random one is I've got a really bad tattoo on my upper thigh. I want to get covered up.
Mmm,
it's a homemade tattoo and depending on which way you look at. It is either says, wow, or mom
is your mom flattered by that. No,
of course not. It's a dude. It's fucking awful. It's the worst.
Okay. So what do you want to talk about with this? So as where do you want to go with this? This SEC? What is yours? So I don't do resolutions for two reasons. One is if I decide that I want something I just immediately start to pursue.
It. So what that means is by the time January 1st rolls around, I don't have like unless unstarted Adventures that I need to like, you know, decide on because like if I if it was December 14th, and I was like, I really need to lose weight. I would start December 14th. I might not like finish the goal or whatever but like I just start goals as soon as the like I kind of have that mindset of inspiration as perishable it expires, you know Inspirations like neck and avocado. And so, you know, you want to you want to strike while the avocado still green and
So that's that's the first reason I don't do resolutions. The second is they frankly didn't work. Well very well for me. So when I did do them, I was more like the January 18th quitters day guy and I wasn't great at sticking to them. And so I was like, well, this is a stupid system that so the system that actually works for me is two things. I do it end of the year reflection. So I basically just go through these five categories, similar to
yours. Yeah. I've just life
dashboard that I do is basically Health, you know, 125, where am I at wealth Wonder?
Where do I feel play? That's kind of like your adventure. So, how much fun am I having? How much am I enjoying my day to day and you just rent rank these? I don't think these, I don't know, one to five scale, one being, I'm totally dissatisfied with this area of my life, five being. I'm so proud of where I am in this area of my life. Where would I rank it? So like for many years if I was like, really out of shape. My health was just perpetually like a 2 out of 5. I was like, well, I don't have a fucking disease. So it's not a one, but I'm not proud of where I'm at with this. And so it was like a tutu.
22. And now it's like a four because I'm real. I'm really proud that I've switched my habits up and so, you know, I just do a reflection because I, when I found is you just it's like what gets measured gets managed type of thing. It's like, if just by shining a light on this area of my life. I ended up with way more clarity about what's where am I? What am I doing? What, what important things in mind, neglecting, what unimportant things have I been over optimizing and just being aware of. It is like the first step. I try to be just if I try to focus on the awareness rather than
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So, all right. So what were the rankings this year?
Okay, so I'll go through and I did this last year. So the first thing is I look at the change. So I try to see okay, how much has changed between last last year this year? So health is now at a for work. Is that a four and a half out of five? So that's almost perpetually. My always buy, my highest ranking, one is work, play plays now at a four and a half. Also kids made it a lot more fun.
And working out with like friends every single day, made it more fun. So that was like a big boost to the play because kids just make you be silly. Like you can't just be you can't be serious around kids like they're they're bored. So you have to be a goofball at least that's for me. I have to be a goofball and in doing so I'm just having actually more fun myself. I'm doing it for them. But then really, I get the benefit. The last two categories are love. So, you know, relationship with wife with, you know, my mom, I my sister stuff like that, and the last one is self respect and self. Respect is the highest.
Ever been at 24 and a half now. So this this is the honestly, the of my life dashboard. This is the highest it's ever been. So I, you know, this would be like a peak year. I guess. I just had four for, you know, as long as I've been doing this, there's about five years or so. That's crazy. What was the lowest a Louis was love because I really liked me and my wife are just, like, not spending much time together because it's like she has one kid. I have the other kid, or she has both kids. I'm like, great. I'm gonna get some work done and then same thing. If I'm both again, she's like, great. I'm gonna go shower for the first time in two.
Days, like we just are not hanging out much and then all these other things I'm doing like work or working out or all the stuff to takes up a bunch of time. And I realized like we haven't spent too much time together in the last, you know, year. And so that's actually like the lowest one on my, on my board. I don't know what I've scored. I think maybe it's like a three or something this
for the last five years, though. What was the lowest year?
What was the what was the worst year? Probably. When I first started this which is like why I started it because I was like, feeling down. I was like I need to like, what is it really down?
I need to like check the scoreboard and then I need to make the school board better. But let me check the scoreboard says I remember was at the beginning Health was super low work was low because I felt like I was in this five-year slog of my startup and I just didn't see a light at the end of the tunnel. It was like is this shit ever going to work? Like it might have actually a dumbass and like I think I'm smart, but I'm actually a dumbass and that's why this is not working. I was just Health was low. Work was low play was low love and self-respect. We're fine right back then and and now, you know things have all shifted
good well.
I would say that the last 24 months of yours have been the best
ever. Yeah, they've been dealt, can't can't lie and that's great. And I share that because you know, it's okay for things to be good. I think we live in a culture where you are supposed to be sort of like ashamed of being happy in a way. It's like, it's like it's a bigger status signal to be, like vulnerable about how depressed you are then open about how happy you are. You're like, obnoxious, if you're happy and you're like, you know, a vulnerable hero.
If you're sad and I just feel weird. Yeah, like it's, you're fine, baby. Whatever you are, but just celebrate when somebody is what they actually are and are aware of it. You don't give points for one or the other and like celebrate one of the other and especially this weird perverse thing where we celebrate people who are like, you know, in the dumps,
I feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want to put my all in it. Like all Days on the Road, Less Traveled never looking back.
