More Than A Side Hustle
More Than A Side Hustle
The Truth About Success Nobody Talks About (Until Now)
We explore what true success looks like beyond financial milestones, examining how freedom of time, family impact, community building, personal growth, and everyday joy create a more meaningful definition of achievement.
• Freedom of time as the ultimate currency that can't be bought back
• Impact on family through breaking generational patterns and creating new opportunities
• Building community and legacy that extends beyond immediate family
• Personal growth and self-discovery that compounds with each new venture
• Finding joy in everyday moments like family vacations and simple pleasures
• The cat-and-mouse game of chasing financial success that never fully satisfies
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It's going to be the same cat and mouse game when it comes to financial success. So you have to realize there are going to be versions of success that you need to find outside of monetary, because the money ain't it. The money can provide some of those things that we spoke about, but when you get the money, you hear it all the time. Will Smith said I hope and I wish that everyone could be rich so they can know what it feels like and realize it's not all, that Will Smith is way richer than me.
Speaker 2:Way richer than us.
Speaker 1:I wish everyone had the feeling of being rich and wealthy, so that they could find out what true happiness actually means. Because it's not that let's go, let's go everyone's chasing the bag. But what if we told you the real flex of is only your time, making memories with your family and building a legacy that outlives you? Today we'll be talking about redefining success and what it truly means to build a meaningful life.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to more than a side hustle podcast. I am Janoka and I'm Anthony, and we are happy to have you here, week after week as we talk about our lives entrepreneurship, parents, marriage, business, all of the things, vacations, all of the things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're talking about how to build a meaningful life and what it actually means to be successful, and this conversation came up and I'm always listening to different podcasts. I'm always trying to learn and grow, and when we talk about success, one of the biggest things we think about is money. Right, we're like, oh, the more money we have, the more successful we have, and I think that just comes from. What does that actually come from? What's your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2:uh, in general, that's how you measure success. Most people how successful they are. They tend to ask like what's your career?
Speaker 1:And that connects to how much money you're making.
Speaker 2:So if someone knows they're a doctor or a lawyer, like oh, you're doing really well for yourself because you know that they tend to make a lot of money or engineer, or if somebody says they're a teacher.
Speaker 1:it's not the same reaction.
Speaker 2:No, I'm serious, it's not the same reaction as someone that they know as a lawyer is not valued the same, probably because of the cost of money attached to it. That's not the only reason, but that has to do with it. It's just not the same reaction. So a lot of times we see success as money, but also in the society that we grew up in or the way that we're raised. When we think about nine to five successes going into the career that you like, once again going back to work and kind of around that, and so money is generally attached to that, but it can be so much more. I'm not here to say money doesn't matter, but you know, for us success looks different, I think, at different times of your life as well. Right, yeah, because if you're at a low point and you need a job, then getting one is being successful, um, but it can be so much more and you can build on so much more than that remember the pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2:You remember that movie will smith in the bathroom with his son crying yeah, why was he crying? Because he couldn't get the job that he wanted right, then what happened? Eventually got it.
Speaker 1:And then what happened? The movie ended I don't really know. Podcast is done. The pursuit of happiness is about money. Will smith getting a job? You know, once he, once he got that job. It's more about fulfillment in his life and, um, obviously he was at a low point. You're just speaking about that, but I was listening to a a pot okay, something in discussion.
Speaker 2:In saying this, I am thinking to myself now, can you truly be successful without having some type of money, though, like some of the things that we're going to go over now, without money, can you even attain it? Probably not. It depends you. Some of these things, you actually some of them.
Speaker 2:yeah, well, this some of them. I would say yes, because this is why some people say just because you're rich doesn't mean that you're happy, and all those types of things, but there are other things, but I think you know, having the money allows for some of these stuff, though, and I think this episode is is extremely important right now because where we are in the world and in the market, it is a.
Speaker 1:Depending on when you listen to this episode, it could be a year from today, but right now it's a bloodbath in the market. What?
Speaker 2:a bloodbath.
Speaker 1:It is literally a bloodbath. The markets are as low as the markets have been achieving record lows. We're having a high amount of layoffs during this time. So February, march, april, like all these months back to back to back have been record months in terms of layoffs, and there's going to be a particular time that we got to find success and happiness outside of the amount of income we bring in. We got to find other ways to be happy during this time, because we might not find it, you know, in generating income. Well, some of us right, there's always going to be people spending. There's always going to be people making money throughout the throughout the amount of time in history when the markets are like this. This is when people tend to build the most wealth, because they're the ones that actually go out and invest and learn and grow.
Speaker 2:They're like and do something about it and do something about it, right?
Speaker 1:so I was listening to a podcast and this is just talks about. We talk about success and we think about money, but this person had a particular app. It was an app and it was talking to a founder and they were trying to find ways to get investors. And one of the things they said was oh, I can't get investors because most investors are white and, truth be told, most investors, when you go through seed rounds and funding and options that work with venture capitalists, that's a white league for the most part. Right To be completely transparent, you guys know this. We ain't teach you nothing here, but you know.
Speaker 1:They got on the phone, they spoke to a black founder and they said you don't absolutely have to go that route. They said you have enough people in your network, you have enough resources that you can go another route where you don't need to be quote unquote successful by having a big venture capitalist fund backing you. And the first thing they thought about was oh, I need to go and get. I need to go get funding in order to be successful. Like, no, you're successful right now, where you are. You just need to change your environment and get around the right people who will give you better advice, cause what you're hearing and what you're seeing is the absolute wrong advice. That will keep you exactly where you are today, and that's why it's important to get around the right people.
Speaker 2:And I also think that when it comes to success, it's different depending on what you're going for, right? So at night sometimes we're like that's a successful day with the kids, right? It doesn't always have to be this grand thing when it comes to success. It can be something pretty small, like I made it through the day, I made it through the week, I made it through this meeting with whoever or whatever it may be, I made it through a hard conversation with a family member or a friend.
Speaker 2:So it does look different in different ways, but these are some of the ways that success looks like outside of money that we wanted to talk about, that sometimes people don't consider or think about, which this first one, I think, is our biggest one that we scream to the top of the mountains all the time, and it is freedom of time. And I don't know that we really we as human beings in general, not just the audience, us too that happens. I don't know that we really appreciate or think about time as much. I mean now, as you get older, maybe you're thinking about it more, but you cannot buy back time. That's one thing that we're very particular about.
Speaker 1:So, whatever we're, putting Well, you can buy back time.
Speaker 2:Oh, with the guy who's watching what the Kardashians. He's getting younger. The Venmo guy, anyway, you got to explain what that was. I don't know the real details of it, but he's reversing his time, he's getting younger.
Speaker 1:So you got people who are biohacking their bodies and their age, and we're talking about buying back your time.
Speaker 2:They're like his metabolism is the age of a 20-year-old, but he's really 60.
Speaker 1:I don't know if he's 60, maybe 45. I don't know. So technically, you could buy back your time with that. But buying back your time what means that you're spending money to get time for. So, like we talk about meal prep or laundry, okay, things like that but generally most of us are not doing that.
Speaker 2:So the freedom of time is such a big deal um for us in this household that you know, if anthony or myself get on calls, it has to make sense because you're taking away from our time from doing something else, mostly probably for the family, for the kids, and that's important to us right Time to be able to go on vacations Not everyone has enough PTO or enough time to be able to do those things or to visit family and friends Time to be able to go on a date for an hour or two with your spouse. So freedom of time is so important and I think that's one of the biggest things that we scream about and when it comes to our success outside of money, um, anything else you would say about that at all?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I would say um, if you had the ability to have complete control and freedom over your time, what would that look like?
Speaker 2:So I know that's hard for some people.
Speaker 1:That's hard for me. I know you've done the whole journey, like you'll wake up, go do Pilates, have a Starbucks mocha chocolate.
Speaker 2:I don't even drink Starbucks or coffee. People, he's lying. You don't drink Starbucks you don't drink Starbucks. Well, yeah, but I don't drink coffee.
Speaker 1:People usually think Starbucks is coffee. Oh, you said I don't drink Starbucks, but you do drink Starbucks Once every two, three weeks. That is drinking Starbucks. So when you think about having freedom of your time, so I know that I want to spend the morning. I don't want to have to spend the morning rushing throughout our day because we got to get the kids out and ready for school, so one of the things I started doing was going to the gym before they wake up. I was like, all right, by 7 o'clock I can come in. I've been doing so. My morning routine people talk about I'm not going to do the. We didn't even talk about that. What's his name? Ashton Hall Morning routine. My morning routine has been for the last I'd probably say the last couple weeks. Probably the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2:It's been the last two, three weeks, but it basically seems like I've been doing this for seven months.
Speaker 1:It's been the last two, three weeks.
Speaker 2:I always wake up early. Yeah, yeah, but what I've been trying?
Speaker 1:to do was I don't want to rush and have to run out and run to the gym. So one thing I've been doing is waking up a little bit earlier. So I will wake up this the same calm meditation app and it's like 10 minute routine. I'll sit in my closet in the dark because I can't go into the room, because I hear people driving and stuff like that. So I sit in the closet because that's where my clothes are and I don't want to wake you up. So I'll sit there, listen to the calm app, breathe in, breathe out. For 10 minutes I'll get up out of the closet, get dressed, you know, brush my teeth, wash my face, all that stuff go to the gym. So now when I come back, I'm calm, I exhausted my body, I got my mind in the right place, so now I go in and wake up my daughter.
Speaker 2:And time does look different for us, since we don't work a standard 9 to 5. And I say standard 9 to 5 because we'd be in this office still for a certain amount of hours and honestly, that's a whole nother topic like entrepreneurship looking different from what I thought. But time does look different for when we were working full time jobs. But, like you said, we're able to move slower, prioritize, rest, making sure that we do exercise because we have a bit more time in our day. But that's the whole reason for us at least, for entrepreneurship, for us at least for entrepreneurship, for being able to have options, being able to, um, get that freedom of time, because you cannot get time back. Essentially is what I was. What about?
Speaker 1:what about to the non-entrepreneur? I mean our? Our goal of this show is to help people who have not in the files, create options. So let's create options for the people who aren't entrepreneurs. What would that look like? Freedom of time for them? So for us, when we we're gonna talk about, it's gonna be always oh, you guys, so it was before, when we had the freedom of time. We didn't have kids, so we used our time to grind to create more income so that we could pay off the debt.
Speaker 1:That was our version of freedom of time yeah we had the time, it was flexible and we controlled it. We were able to control our time throughout that. Then it's like, okay, you have kids. So you guys are saying, well, if you got kids, what do I do then? And I have a 9 to 5. So I was talking to a lady and we were doing our coaching call and I said is there any time during your day where you have the ability to just do nothing? And she's like, yeah, have about um three hours once my kids go down or whatever. I was like what time is that? She's like usually from like 9 to 12.
Speaker 1:I was like wait 9, 10, 11, 12, that's three hours yeah so it was like 9 to 10, it was like 9 to 11, 11, 30 or something like that. So I was like you at least have two hours of freedom and flexibility that you could do whatever you want. So yeah, yes, um, and I was like, is it any more time throughout the day? It's like, well, I got 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there. I was like, okay, now this is starting to add up. I'm not even going to count that, let's just focus on that two, two to three hour window that you have at night. What are you doing during that time?
Speaker 1:She's like I'm usually just watching tv. I was like is this something that you want to do or accomplish instead of watching tv? And we kind of went through it and she was like, oh yeah, I could use that time. Even if I don't use a full two hours, I could use about an hour at that time just to get some work done. And that's what we're talking about having that freedom of time, because you could find it, it's just gonna find it do you?
Speaker 2:do you have to wake up earlier, you know, before the kids get up. I see a lot of those when you speak about routines. But I do watch a lot of routine videos of moms and just people in general, and I've seen people, yeah, wake up at four, 30. And I'm like baby. Some people are morning people, yeah, or they make themselves morning people because they are prioritizing whatever it is. They're waking up earlier to make sure they meditate, make sure they pray, do something for themselves before they attack the world. Essentially Because, yes, once you get them kids up, get the day started, get to work, there is like no time to breathe during that time. So can you wake up a little earlier? Can you do something at the end of the day and maybe it's not every day, because I completely understand, like when that, when the kids go down, or when it's the end of the day, I don't want to look at nobody, I don't want to do anything, but if there is something that's important to you, can you set the time apart to do it. So, yes or yes, yes or yes next. So that was the first one.
Speaker 2:Freedom of time, um, is something that's important, that is, you know, we measure as success outside of just money. The second one is impact on our family. So us being good, oh, no, no. So us being home does not mean that you are necessarily with your family the entire time, like we have had with our first daughter.
Speaker 2:We had a nanny full time, and then with our second daughter, we now have our peer and our oldest is in school, right. So during the day, you know, we're not necessarily with her all the time time, but we're able to still check in because she's in the house, right, she's not, it's not like she's somewhere else, so we can still kind of see her. And having, you know, the ability to kind of always be around if there's something happening at alani school at 12 in the afternoon, we can show up, um, if there's something happening and they tell us within two hours, we can be there that impact of being able to show up whenever you want, being able to have time to take her places on the weekends after school, that type of stuff is just as important for us, um, as money, and even more, I would say and breaking generational curses curses and creating opportunities for our children and that's one of the things that I posted something on social media.
Speaker 1:We was in Columbia. We didn't talk about being in Columbia.
Speaker 2:Oh, we didn't yeah.
Speaker 1:We got to catch y'all up on what's been happening. Well, we went to Columbia.
Speaker 2:I did do a vlog, though, on traveling there. Did it post? Yes, did you post it on. My personal page.
Speaker 1:So we went to columbia and I said I want to get some content with alani and I was like and she did like a little, a quick little mini vlog. I said where are we? She's like columbia, and I was like you having fun? She's like, yes, and I was like are you happy? She's like yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1:But it's just like those moments where you're able to work and still include the family in some of the tasks. Like this has technically worked for us, but being able to, if we wanted to, if Alani was here, we could bring her into the podcast, let her play around. But this is now us creating opportunities for ourselves and our family. And then even, for example, with the cleaning business, there was a time where your mom had to talk to some people speaking Spanish, and these are opportunities We've had. One of my frat bros bought his two kids in and they was picking up phones during the summer or calling people in their own businesses. So these are the things that you're able to do that a traditional 9 to 5 might not allow you to do. So I was like I can't hire my kids in my 9 to 5 because I don't own the job, but my boss could hire his nephew that didn't know a damn thing about the job, and that could hire his nephew that didn't know a damn thing about the job.
Speaker 1:And that's another story for another day, but these are the things that are measured. That helps us measure the type of success that we want by the opportunities that we're able to provide for other people Friends, family. We can invest in our friends, we can invest in our families. We can invest in their businesses. We could hire them to do things for us, with us, alongside us, and it's like always, opportunities that we can create for other people.
Speaker 2:And just along the lines of creating those opportunities for your children just being able to do like, okay, from the very at a young age Alani was in swimming, gymnastics, music class. Same thing will be for Amaya and then soon we'll be signing her up for, possibly, ice skating or dance and all these other things. So those opportunities and the impact that we can have in our family, and even something as Alani seeing us on YouTube because she watches YouTube here and there with Miss Rachel and once in a while our video would be there and she's like I want to watch, watch that, and it's mommy and daddy, so, uh, these podcasts can be an impact, you know, on our, on our family and our children, which I think kind of brings us to that, to the next thing the third thing community.
Speaker 1:Community and legacy is another way we we measure success, that legacy piece. Everyone talks about generational wealth and passing down money, but what is the actual legacy of your family? Look like and the YouTube part of it is a funny one, because your grandmother my grandmother in Panama watches it.
Speaker 2:92-year-old, she watches our podcast. Shout out to Abuela. Shout out to Abuela she watches our podcast.
Speaker 1:She's 92 years old. She's on YouTube consuming our content. Imagine if you could go back and watch videos of your great great, great great grandmother, great grandfather. What they were doing at that time, what were the struggles?
Speaker 2:going on well how, what they were doing, but still a little different. It's a little different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we know. Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't that, but we're gonna move forward.
Speaker 2:We're breaking generational curses and hopefully things continue to change. Well, they have obviously.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah so you mean that they was out there?
Speaker 2:yeah, there was no time for this. Yeah, they know this is.
Speaker 1:This is the thing that the legacy that we're talking about. Like we would hope that stuff is not recorded, it's documented. It needs to be shared, obviously, but we don't know what the next gender, next two, three, four generations, will look like. So if they come back and watch our videos, this could be that version like oh they, they gotta, they got to record stuff, they got to sit there.
Speaker 2:They don't have their. We just think about it and you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:They don't have their hologram, doing that stuff for them, like, oh my God, that could be. So imagine your kids, kids, kids, looking at videos of yourself and what you guys are going through and what you guys were accomplishing and being able decided to change. Somebody decided to say I'm going to pay off $114,000 of debt. I decided to leave my 9 to 5. I decided to have these kids, I decided to take them traveling, I decided to start sharing on social media and that could be anyone. So when you're talking about creating a legacy, it's not just about the generational wealth. It's about also the teaching moments and the opportunities and the rewards that you're allowing people to receive on behalf of that.
Speaker 2:I think another big one for us is, you know, the joy of building a community with Clean and Business University. Now, there's not many times that we sit and kind of do kudos to ourselves, but every once in a while, when someone just simply says thank you for allowing me to think differently, or thank you, and I have had two bookings, thank you, and I hit 10,000 in two months, or whatever it may be, that is community, that is legacy, that is an impact on someone's life and family that we probably didn't even think about. That would always be with them. Like, if you have this cleaning business, you can pass it down to anyone, it can be part of your family forever, and that's something that the heart dogs have played a part in. So that's huge for us.
Speaker 2:Our cleaning business community is huge for those people that once in a while, just let us know what's happening. We thank you because we wouldn't know, right, and sometimes it's like do people still want this and does it make sense to still do this? And even if you don't open a cleaning business and you do the course and you do something else with it, or you just get some type of knowledge from us, even from our podcast from our content, then that is part of our legacy, that's part of the community that we are building. So I think that that's a not a bigger thing, because obviously it's important for our family to see us. You know, and kind of be a part of that, but we've impacted strangers and thousands of strangers that we may never hear from, and people that we have changed the trajectory of their life, and not just their life, their legacy. So I think that's just as important. So kudos to us on that. Here we go, celebrate.
Speaker 1:That was a good one yeah.
Speaker 2:So you think about what kind of legacy you want to leave for your family, your community. That's it, she nailed that one Personal growth and self-discovery. It's number four.
Speaker 1:Building businesses have stretched us as individuals, as people, as parents, as family, as friends, learning patience, learning communication, learning resilience. These are versions of success that you may or may not think of when you start your business. We've grown as a couple, balancing these type of conversations, Like you know. It was like I don't want to record, Anthony wants to record.
Speaker 2:Anthony's always recording.
Speaker 1:Janoka wants to record today, so here you go Right. So here we are, these are. These are many wins that you go out and you realize these are, these are versions of success that have nothing to do with money. So you talk about all the things that you've been able to accomplish, but the personal growth and discovery of yourself and others, that's a version of success that we have to be reminded of constantly yeah, I think, like you said, the confidence and clarity.
Speaker 2:So when we first started our cleaning business, it was our first business, so there is no confidence there. You know you may have confidence in other areas, but when you're doing something new, something that you've never done before, you're not as confident with it. You think like I don't know what I'm doing, am I doing this right? You're questioning everything that you're getting started with when you don't even need to, right, because half of us don't know what we're doing either. We're just doing it. That's the difference. We're actually going to try it, fail and do it again, and some of us are just going to sit back on the side and say like I don't know what I'm doing, so I don't think, I'm not going to start it.
Speaker 2:So I think that with personal growth and self-discovery, you do gain that confidence in areas that you may have never thought of, right? So when I think about just for myself, when I think about doing content, I'm like there's no, why would I be? I shouldn't be scared of doing content. I've been doing it for seven years, right, and that's a confidence that's come just with time, right? So just something as simple as that the personal growth and the self-discovery that you learn throughout the process and when you have these conversations with people, you never think about it in the moment per se, but it is something that kind of helps you and builds to your success throughout your life, because they can't no one can take that away from you, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that no one can take that confidence away from you. So, going from, it took us five years to build our first seven figure business. We built our second seven figure business in two and a half to three and a half three years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now think about the next, the third venture that we decide to start right, will it two and a?
Speaker 1:half to three, two and a half, three years. Yeah, now think about the next, the third venture that we decide to start right. Will it take two and a half years? Will it take two years? Will it take one? You're able to compound those experiences, you're able to compound that growth, you're able to take what you learned from your nine to five, from that first experience, from that second, into that third and it all snowballs into a cumulation accumulation.
Speaker 2:Cumulation Sounds like Kamala.
Speaker 1:Oh, they need her now. We all need her right. So it becomes a cumulation of skill sets. What's the game, liam Nelson? Have a particular skill set. Is that him? Oh, I don't know, but you reminded me of something else. Have a particular skill set that can be used to find you.
Speaker 2:Oh, in any movie he takes, does taken Taken.
Speaker 1:Yeah, have a particular set of skills that, uh, but either way, you have a particular set of skills that you can now use a snowball because you have that personal growth, you have that development and that's another version of success that you have to be mindful of. That has nothing to do with monetary.
Speaker 2:So, before we get to the last one, I just want to recap all the things that we're saying. So what success looks like for us beyond money? The first one we spoke about was freedom of time. The second one was the impact on our family. Number three is community and legacy. Number four is personal growth and self-discovery. And the last one is joy in the everyday moments, which I kind of touched on at the beginning. And the last one is joy in the everyday moments which I kind of touched on at the beginning.
Speaker 2:So the simple joys of things family vacation, lazy mornings, spontaneous adventures, weekends, bringing out the bouncy house in our backyard for our daughter to jump in that is success to us. We have a house, we have a bouncy house that our daughter can utilize. We don't have to go anywhere to do it. We have, we've had events at our home. We've had our baby our home, we've had our baby shower, we've had our um housewarming at our home. Those are little success joys. A moment to bring our family and friends together in something that we build, something that we're comfortable in, for them to have those moments with us. Um, the financial freedom of prioritizing those moments right, because you do need some type of money to do these things. Taking our children to Disney World with us, where we had all the grandparents with us we don't know when we'll ever have that type of vacation again where we can have all the grandparents join. Or taking our daughter to South Africa with us, where she went to safari I don't know if I'll ever do that again. Will she ever do it again, who knows?
Speaker 2:So those little joys and everyday moments are definitely part of the success, definitely part of what we think about. When we think about success and we were talking about that, I think, the other day because Tony kind of kicks and fights to go to any vacation and he's never really excited until like the day before, and I'm excited five months in advance. I'm like we got to put the ticket now and he's like every time he gets there he's like, yeah, this was really good, we needed this, we should have done this. And I'm like I know that you didn't have to tell me that. I knew I just had to like pull it out of you.
Speaker 1:But you know you never kind of regret, sorry those moments that you have with family and friends and you spend and that spontaneous trip to New York, like just being there for an event. You just never regret those things. And let me give you guys some real life context on the monetary success and how it feels in certain aspects and I'm going to make it super relatable to where you are today and also where we are today. So think about where you were seven years ago, five years ago, whatever you were doing, there was a time or let's say last year, there was a time and a moment where you prayed to be where you are today. You might have cried for it, you might have wanted it so bad. You said, if I get there I'll be good. And I want you to visualize this because I remember when I wanted to get my first job in New York City and I was like I hope I get to leave Albany, new York, and go to New York City.
Speaker 2:I hope that I prayed and. I wished.
Speaker 1:And then I got it and I said yes. And then seven years later, eight years later, I'm like, oh, I'm still here. Now it's like, yeah, I love my job, I love the people. I no longer love the job and it's like, okay, now I'm just doing the same thing. It's like what's next? But I remember eight years ago, nine years ago, praying for that job. Think about where, what you prayed for, and then, when you got in, and imagine how you, and then you know how you felt when you got it. I remember when we hit our first, we wanted to, we wanted to pay off $114, we did it. It was like, oh my God, we did it. We popped champagne Very next day. It was like okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what's next, what's next.
Speaker 1:And then I remember we didn't even know that we became millionaires, like, oh, we can't wait to become millionaires. And then we became it. We didn't even know it. And then it was like, oh, okay, what's next? And then it was like, oh, okay, we did it. Oh, wait, what's next? Okay, maybe a hundred thousand dollars in a month. What happens? My life will be so different. And that was three years ago. It's like okay.
Speaker 1:And then we did it again multiple times. It's like, well, I want to make a million. It's going to be the same cat and mouse game when it comes to financial success. So you have to realize they're they're going to be version of success that you need to find outside of monetary, because the money ain't the money, ain't it. The money can provide some of those things that we spoke about, but when you get the money, you hear it all the time um, so will. Smith said. I hope and I wish that everyone could be rich, so they can know what it feels like and realize it's not all that. Yeah, so they can really. He said.
Speaker 1:I wish everyone could be rich, so they can know what it feels like and realize it's not all that. Yeah, so they can really. He said I wish everybody could be rich so they could actually find what success and true happiness is. Will Smith is way richer than me Way richer than us.
Speaker 1:He said, I wish everyone had the feeling of being rich and wealthy, so that they could find out what true happiness actually means, because it's not that. So we gave you guys some encouragement, but we also want you guys to think about what does success and happiness look like for you now, today, beyond money, what brings?
Speaker 2:you the most joy and beyond the standards of society, like just for yourself, because that's another thing. Like we said, careers is usually attached to that. Beyond money, beyond the standards of society, what does it look like for yourself? What brings you the most joy and fulfillment? Those things are success.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:You know, seeing your body change. Running one mile, running a mile, consistently, like those things are success that we just like oh okay, I did it, or this person does it all the time. That has nothing to do with anybody else, but what about you? What about your family? What about the intentions that you kind of set? What about your family? What about the intentions that you kind of set, which is always important, as to like brings us to like goals, which that's going to be our next episode.
Speaker 2:You know the quarterly goals, like how are you even measuring what the success is if you don't have it written down or know what you're striving towards, right? So, beyond money, what brings you most joy and fulfillment? Just think about that Comment on you know, our YouTube Comment on our Instagram, when, on our Instagram, when we post this let us know what are the things that you, that you look at and what do you measure. Health is a big thing. That's beyond success, right? Because another thing you don't have control over that you just hope that you will be here forever. You hope that you eat, right, you hope that you do all these things. So, um, yeah, I don't think I had anything for that. Yeah, I don't think I had anything for that. Let me see if there's anything else.
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