Create a vision for your life

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[00:00:27] Welcome back to the Air as it used to be. And so little things will creep their way into your mind. Little things creep their way into my mind. Like what if this negative thing happens? Like I'm pretty much a half, a glass half full person.

[00:01:45] But the last few years has been more stressful and more times. And I mean, I can even tell you, like, the two or three upset patients who left one-star reviews, those are the things that bother me. Those are the things that's like, what did we do wrong?

[00:03:00] You know, and I'll focus way on that. And we got a one-star review

[00:03:04] about a week ago, no, two weeks get haters, you gotta brush it off. But how do you refocus and just fill your brain with like the good stuff? And one, there are two ways that I do it. One is I've got like a, I can't remember what it's called. It's like a fucky ab board or a helly ab board or, you know, it's like I've got a board when I walk in, a cork board,

[00:04:20] when I walk in my office and it's got thank you notes

[00:04:23] and thank you emails and messages that people have written me

[00:04:26] and it's similar to baseball

[00:05:40] in that like a great batting average is like you hit and most of the time you lose. I can't remember what the status on Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan won most of the time, but he also missed like 200 game winning shots.

[00:07:01] And so you have to be willing to fail to win.

[00:07:04] Right? somewhere for months at a time and do yoga and whatever it worked. Now that's still part of it, but who has changed and doing it by myself doesn't seem as fun, but it could be. And I'm starting to learn that and I'm starting to see that and what else do I want? So I'm learning that. And so I was updating my vision board. What do I want?

[00:08:20] So let's talk about how to create a vision board.

[00:08:23] And if you're listening to this, one of the things you can do right now is just open up

[00:08:26] your notes app, open up Google Keep. Bahamas is eluded me. Bahamas vacation with a beautiful woman, right? Like that's one of mine. And then, but really it's not just Bahamas is more, it's not Bahamas for me. It's like, I got Borobora, Seychelles, Maldives, these are places like across the world. They're gonna take, oh, you know, a couple days to get to. A lot of people have to put down $80,000 to $120,000 down. A year, two years ago, and put down $80,000 to buy a second home from my ex. $80,000 in cash. It's a buy at $380,000 house.

[00:11:01] I had it.

[00:11:02] I wasn't planning on it.

[00:11:03] Then that's when I was going to use it for.

[00:11:05] But you want to have some cash.

[00:11:07] You got to get there for the right home.

[00:11:08] Yeah. like this, I've got a picture of my man garage, like with the leather couch, with the motorcycle and the Porsche. And so, write down these things. It's like, how do you want your family to be? What do you want your family to look like? We want your career to look like. And this isn't just about business goals. It's like, how do you want your life to feel?

[00:12:20] So maybe there's not a thing.

[00:12:22] Maybe it's more of a feeling.

[00:12:25] And maybe write down, what is wrong with this house? Like why is it so cheap? Because it was beautiful, and compared to the houses in the Oakland Hills that looked just like it that I was used to, those houses were 1.2 or 1.8 million

[00:13:41] minimum needing work, and we went and checked it out,

[00:13:44] and we got this dope brochure, and I was like,

[00:13:47] yeah, the only weird thing is there was two bedrooms pieces, bring up all the things like what do you want? Is there like a you know like a bicycle? Like a few years ago I hit a goal and it was like hey when I hit my business goals I'm gonna go buy myself a new gravel bike and I did. That was more of a short time. I knew I could get that. It was more of a short term goal. It wasn't like a big thing but you know right now the latest thing

[00:15:01] that made it on there is a Rolex watch. The Role you see what it feels like and you take a picture of it and here's the thing with the Rolex is I don't even know that I want a Rolex it's a little bit I like I wear like an old formula tag formula one it's about 30 years old I have a Omega I think it's an Omega constellation

[00:16:21] that I got when I graduated PT school and it's like $120,000 in my personal emergency fund, which means that's not all the money I have. I have money in other places. That personal emergency fund, where I could take 12 of that, go buy a Rolex and still have $108,000 left. And I can then choose to say, you know what? That's not what I want.

[00:17:40] But I need to get back to that level

[00:17:42] because in the last few years

[00:17:44] went getting divorced and separated.

[00:17:45] That cash reserve went almost zero. It's like if you've never flown first class fly first class You know you know it feels like and once you fly first class you're not gonna want to fly coach again Trust me on that and maybe that goes on your vision board. I mean to be able to say hey look I fly first class You know and if you're like god I couldn't spend a thousand twelve hundred bucks to fly first class

[00:19:00] Take your points and next time you buy a free ticket or you know

[00:19:05] get a get a It's the date one, not the non-date one. I don't know, it's not even the fanciest Rolex. It's not the 80,000, 60,000-dollar Rolex. A sub-zero refrigerator. When I remodel my kitchen or buy a new home, vacation home, dude, a sub-zero refrigerator is a 10 or 12,000 or even $15,000 fridge,

[00:20:20] but they last 30 years.

[00:20:22] Every one I know who has a sub-zero fridge,

[00:20:25] like my parents' friends who have them,

[00:20:27] my dad used to have one that thing lasted 40 years It's like one of these old silver air streams. It's okay, I've got a picture from Instagram. This guy's showing like, Bora Bora getaway these huts on top of the blue water and the stairs that walk right down into the water. Or inside there's glass that shows the water. There's the blue lagoon in Iceland. Where is this exotica resort and spa in the Maldives?

[00:21:42] Oh my God, this is, I'm just looking at the picture.

[00:21:44] I'm like, I'm going here for a week.

[00:21:48] And then there's the infinity pool. Those are the things that are those are the pictures that are on there. I've got pictures of the suits That I've bought. I mean, I've you know, here's what I want So what I want you to do is make a list of all the things that you want in your life And these aren't material things just to be material These are material things to to signify all the people you've helped in the world and all the hard work

[00:23:04] You've done because if you're doing the hard work, you need to reward yourself

[00:24:06] and go sit on the couch and have your friend take a picture of you sitting there and put that on your vision board.

[00:24:14] Okay, that's it for today. That's your job is to go put this together and then maybe do this.

[00:24:20] Make a little carousel on Instagram and tag me in it with your vision board.

[00:24:25] Do that like and let me know like where you're going and where we're going together