Good morning everyone! Welcome to the Buckets Project. Today's conversation and episode is with my brother Robert. There's a lesson that I learned that says everybody should have three  types of people in their lives. Because I am an ex-engineer, it's only appropriate that I put some math in here. Plus. Equal. Minus. What that translates to is that everyone should have in their lives a person they seek guidance from, a person they can compete with and share experiences with, and the person they can provide guidance to. Robert is definitely the “plus” in my life. He has achieved at 35-years old what many of us hope to achieve at 65-years old.  Normally I would say what we hope to achieve is retirement and financial freedom, but after this conversation I changed my mind. What we hope to achieve and what he has achieved is the ability to successfully set a goal and maintain the focus to achieve that goal regardless of circumstance. As I navigate through these Buckets conversations, I start to see more of how rare this skill is especially when it comes to very very large goals like retiring early. The majority of the population knows what it takes to achieve such a large goal, but very few of them have the discipline and focus to achieve that goal. Life finds a way to get in the way. Therefore, it is inspiring to know someone to that capacity that doesn’t allow life to get in the way. It is also a blessing to have that person as my own brother. Because he achieved that goal at such an early age, he has been able to explore and experience everything he can think of and not require a walker or Medicare card to do so (referring to old age). What I also learned from this conversation though is that once the peak of the mountain has been reached the journey of life is far from being complete. I hope you enjoy this conversation and learn as much from it as I did in one hour what took me 32 years to learn from my own brother.