I have friends and know people who have worked all their lives towards retirement.  They've invested and saved their resources.  They've spent years planning to take that trip to the Grand Canyon, take the cruise around the world, backpack through Europe, and go scuba diving in the Grand Cayman only to retire after 40 years and fall into a routine that left them uninspired. In some cases, they passed away months later. 

I know that sounds dark, but that's the reality for many people. 

Life is a journey.  We've been programmed to give the best part of our youth to "Building the American Dream," acquiring things, stuff, and everything that doesn't mean two squats at the end.  In some cases, we neglect our families, stay leveraged up to our eyeballs in debt, write our dreams down in a book, and put our "someday" list on a shelf to collect dust. 

This episode is a reminder that you have the ability to deprogram yourself from everything you've been taught and conditioned to believe. 

Have you started working on your dream yet? 

Are you doing what you love to do every single day?  Remove the excuses and find a way to make it happen.  You've been blessed with the same level of creativity to make it happen, and at this point in human history, you have all the tools to materialize it.

Have you taken that trip you've wanted to take for the last 5 years? 

Why not? 

There are pitstops along the way in life and it's by design.  Sometimes, it's an illness that puts you down for a bit. 

An unexpected job change forces you out of your hypnotic patterns. 

A child graduates and leaves the nest. 

Divorce.  Loss of assets. 

And a multitude of other things that could happen over the course of your lifetime. 

While you're here, you may as well enjoy it. 

Have fun with it. 

Take a break and make time to make the time so you can life the most magnificent life you've been dreaming of. 

Afterall, it's a journey, and it's up to you to make it colorful!

 

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Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out. In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for the next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue SKy Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/ Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.

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