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The Mike Muldoon Podcast: Bite-Sized Coaching Sessions Empowering Transformation in Small Doses
Unlike those who’ve already reached their goals and now tell you how to get there, The Mike Muldoon Podcast isn’t about preaching from the finish line. We’re (yes, me too) on this journey together. I’m walking it with you—growing, learning, and striving side by side. This is about elevating our lives, building a stronger, more empowered mindset, and unlocking our full potential with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
The Mike Muldoon Podcast: Bite-Sized Coaching Sessions Empowering Transformation in Small Doses
Life's Fragility: Embracing What Truly Matters Before It's Too Late
What would change in your priorities if today was the day your life was turned upside down? I explore how quickly time passes and why we continue postponing our dreams with the false promise of "tomorrow." Whether it's a devastating diagnosis, sudden loss, or unexpected disaster, these moments instantly render our career ambitions, social media metrics, and material pursuits meaningless. Yet we don't need tragedy to realign our priorities.
This episode serves as both wake-up call and invitation to examine what truly matters. Are you putting off that career change because you're afraid? Neglecting relationships while chasing status? Delaying experiences that would bring genuine joy? I challenge you to stop waiting for some future ideal moment and start living authentically now.
The most ordinary days—the ones we take for granted—are often what we'll miss most when they're gone. By recognizing life's fragility, we gain perspective that can transform how we spend our precious time. After all, for someone out there, today is the day they'd give anything to return to what you might consider just an ordinary day.
Take chances. Express love. Forgive quickly. Appreciate simple joys. Because one day, your life will change in an unexpected way—and when that happens, what will you wish you had done differently? Don't wait for that wake-up call to start living fully.
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Hey y'all, welcome to this episode of the Unlikable Dude Podcast. Thanks so much for joining me. Glad you're here Always, always appreciate that. Thank you so much. Been here for years. I'm glad a lot of you're still with me. Please just make sure that you're hitting that subscribe button, your Apple, your Spotify and maybe sharing it with a friend or a family member who might be able to use it.
Speaker 1:But anyway, today I'm here a little late. I'm here a little bit late. Normally I try to do my podcast a little bit earlier in a week, but this is going to get released in a few hours. It's Thursday night.
Speaker 1:But I want to talk about something that I often think about and it's kind of ironic because sometimes I use it as a motivating thing in my life to kind of push through things, especially about to take a risk or just try to push through some fear or something like that, and it's probably not the best thing to think about, but it really is true and really what I want to talk about today is really just focusing on again what I do talk about in the past, about living your life, just understanding that time is short and you've got to take chances and you've got to live your life and also use it with life. Remember to really focus on things that really truly matter. So you know, I guess what I'm saying here is every single day someone somewhere receives life shattering news. Now I wish the news every day everybody got was life altering in the most positive, incredible way. You got the best job, the best gig, the best whatever, the best relationship, whatever. But a lot of times, you know, you know someone somewhere is, and it happens every day because that's just the reality of it's going to happen. Every day somewhere around the world that's happening where people are really receiving this like life shattering news. You know it's a diagnosis, it's an accident, it's a sudden loss, it's a phone call that shifts reality in an instant. You know, just a few weeks ago, those fires in Los Angeles. You know how many people just one day house was there, next day everything is gone.
Speaker 1:And it's in these moments that all these things right, that you know we may chase or thinks important. Or you know our careers, promotions, money, status suddenly mean nothing. You know we go through life with an unspoken belief that tomorrow will look a lot like today. Right, that we'll wake up, go to work, check our emails, run errands and continue the cycle. We stress over deadlines, we obsess over job titles, we measure success in paychecks and possessions, we put off chasing dreams or doing things that we want to do because we just figure we'll get to it tomorrow when, realistically, we're just too scared to take that first step. If you really dig deep, that's really what it just comes down to taking a risk. But for someone out there, today is the day where everything changes, and that's what I want to talk about today.
Speaker 1:Again, as much as I'd love that change to be something life-altering in terms of, hey, you won the lottery or, you know, you got that big promotion, job, romantic relationship opportunity, whatever it is you're looking for. That I wish it was, but for some it's not. You know, maybe it's a. It's a mother who found out her child is sick. It's a. It's a man sitting in a doctor's office hearing words that will alter the rest of his life. It's a. It's a woman who, or a man who just lost their spouse in some unexpected tragedy. I mean, their world was once filled with plans and ambitions and it's completely reduced to a single overwhelming reality, which really just becomes survival.
Speaker 1:And the thing is when these moments come and they will come for all of us. At some point, these things we once prioritized seemed laughable. You know, when that moment happens, all these other things will seem just so insignificant. The work meeting that felt so urgent, meaningless, the instagram likes irrelevant, the endless chase for the next big thing hollow. Because what matters in those moments are the things we often take for granted the people we love, the time we have with them, the simple joy we often overlook. You know, think about the last argument you had over something trivial. Think about the last time you put off calling someone because you were too busy. Think about those hours lost in stress over things that, in the grand scheme of things, won't even be a footnote in your life story. Yeah, that's why it's important to live like it matters, before it's too late, you know.
Speaker 1:Take those chances that you have to Take those risks. Step into the fear to push yourself forward if you're unhappy. See, the thing is we don't have to wait for tragedy to remind us of what is important to us, which is again whether it's family, friends, whatever it is, or what we really want to be doing with our lives, like we can choose right now to shift our priorities to chase our dreams, to refocus ourselves back in with the people that matters Again. Maybe you know, shifting your priority away from your family, not your family. Shifting your priority away from your work to your family. Or shifting your priority away from your family, not your family. Shifting your priority away from your work to your family. Or shifting your priority away from doing something that makes you unhappy to something that's gonna make you happy, you know, to stop living like you know you have all this time in the world. Or maybe stop measuring success by things that again won't hold meaning when your life turns upside down.
Speaker 1:So, in personal ways, you know, tell people you love them. Don't assume they already know. Say it, show it, be present. The best moments in life are. They're happening in front of you, they're not on a screen. Forgive quickly, life's too short to hold on to resentment.
Speaker 1:But really, where I'm getting here? Stop waiting to do the things that you know you want to do, to step out of that career, to step into that relationship, whatever it is for you, you know. You know you're just lying to yourself about I'll do it tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow and it could be something. Maybe not even that major, you know, maybe it's that trip you want to take, you know, or again, you know this dream vacation that you've been holding onto but you, you know you just won't find the time for you know, or again, that that dream that you just have in general, whatever it is, start now, see, appreciate the ordinary Of each day right now as an opportunity To then move into the life you want, because one day you may look back and realize it was never ordinary at all. One day, your life will change in a way you've never expected, and when that happens, what will you wish you had done differently? Don't wait for that wake up call. Live now, chase your dreams now, love now, because for someone out there, today is the day they'd give anything to go back to Just an ordinary day, all right, and that's what I got for you today.
Speaker 1:I know that was a little heavy, but again, this is the stuff that sometimes I think about, that when I'm about to try something new or step into a new uh, venture which I'm doing right now and we'll talk more about it over the next few weeks Um, I try to remind myself and life short, you got to take chances. It's an opportunity to just go for it. You know there are people out there dealing with much worse Um, and I hate saying it as a motivating factor, but it's just, it's just a gentle reminder that again, life's too short. I'm at 50 people, I'm 50. I don't feel 50. I don't think I look 50. Maybe I do, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But I just how did I get here? I know how I got here. I mean, I know how I got here, but time is zipping, it's moving, you know, and it's's insane, and there's just still so much that I want to do and um, and I just I try to remind myself that don't fall into just this lull of just every day is guaranteed and everything is tomorrow's promised and all that stuff. That life is now and you've got to make these decisions now, whatever it is for you, and that's what you have to do have to sort of dig down deep like what is it for you? What? What's holding you back? What haven't you been doing? What you could you be doing a little bit more? You know it's really hard, because for everybody that's going to be something different. Though, when I hear a lot of people are unhappy and a lot of times it is careers, it's relationships. It's money, whatever it is, but I'm going to do it tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow, I'll do it next week.
Speaker 1:I think I've talked about this in the past with me. I remember smoking. I used to be a smoker way back in the day, 20 something years ago and I remember, ah, I'll quit smoking when things get better. But you know what? The day you quit smoking, it's the worst day in your life, it doesn't. So, anyway, all I'm saying here is take an opportunity, prioritize the things that matter to you and start moving into the direction of the life that you want to be living, because, like I said, every day somebody gets a call that sends their whole world completely spiraling and gets them looking at all the stuff that they thought was important, or all those things that they didn't do they would have loved to have had an opportunity to do now. So, all right, everybody, that's all I got for you today. I wish you the best. Thank you again for being here.
Speaker 1:My book's out Five Basic Keys for Living Successfully In Between. You could probably read it in one sitting. I'd love to hear your feedback on it. So when you're buying a book, make sure you just leave a review Again.
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