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All You Ever Have is Now—Always
• 39 minBecome a time billionaire. In this episode of the Get Rich Education podcast, host Keith Weinhold explores the significance of living an extraordinary life, emphasizing the importance of time management and the value of time. You are here today, gone tomorrow. Gain new perspective on life and death. The show promotes strategies for achieving financial freedom through real estate investing. A hypothetical scenario examines the potential impact of eternal life on Earth's resources, prompting listeners to consider the implications of unlimited population growth. The episode offers a blend of motivational content and practical wealth-building advice, with a side of philosophical musing on the nature of time and life's finitude. We listen in to Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Life and Death: A Cosmic Perspective”. 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You need to become financially-free so that you have… time to be present and live in the “now”. You are here today and gone tomorrow. There’s not much time to leave your dent in the universe. All that you ever have is now - and that’s how it will always be. Today, on Episode 500 of Get Rich Education. Welcome in… to Get Rich Education. I’m your host, Keith Weinhold. At times, people tell me something like: “Look at what you’re doing. You live an extraordinary life.” Now, I might reply to that person with something like - “Thanks. I appreciate it. I like to get out and see the world.” But do you know what’s really going on inside my head when someone tells me that I live an extraordinary life? I’m really thinking, “Well, of course, I do. Don’t you? You design your life: So why would you choose anything… else or anything… less… than an extraordinary life?” Esp. in this world of abundance that we all live in. That’s why you have zero reason to live any life that’s LESS than extraordinary - if that’s what you want.” Investing for income now is a tool for freedom. When you're no longer trading your time chiefly for dollars, that's when you can stop living a disembodied existence - when you’re living such that your mind and your body are in two different places. Begin to own your time and truly be yourself. You need time. And you don’t have much time. That’s why, in my experience, it's better to err on the side of being too early over being too late. Are you truly living… or are you only existing in space and time? I think that deep down… you know. Ask yourself. You already know the answer. Remember, Episode 1 of this very show is called: “Your Abundance Mindset.” But if you’re thinking in LIMITING ways, here’s the good news - the really good news for you. You don’t have to believe everything that you think. The good news is that… you were born rich. You were born with an abundance of choices. Society stifled that. You don’t have to believe… everything that you think. Since there's never a "perfect time" to build financial freedom, your conception that it's too early is often just your fear. As long as you've got a few touchpoints, once you dive in, you'll figure it out. Old people tend to regret the things they didn't do, or didn't do earlier—not the things they did. The best reason for becoming financially-free is so that you can buy time and finally start to be yourself. If you don’t want to do it for yourself, do it for someone you love… because there's someone in this world that needs you to be... you. Since all that you’ll ever have is “now”, you need residual income to buy time so that you can spend more of your life present in the “now”. Now, if you were to ask yourself, what made the most successful leaders in the world successful, was it the capital they had, their technology, the people they knew, or their mindset? Which one of those things was it? It’s their mindset. See, because if you took away the capital, technology, or friendships from Jeff Bezos or Steve Jobs or Mahatma Ghandi or MLK - whoever you want to use as your leader. If you took away those elements but they retained their mindset, they would most likely go on to regain everything they’ve got. That’s why you must deeply explore and consider, what mindset do you have, where did you get your mindset, and what mindset do you need for the decades ahead? Did you get it from… your parents? If so, I’m sorry to say, that’s usually a red flag… and that’s where most of us get our mindset from. But most people never learn differently. Realize this - and this is a little hard to say. But the truth is hard. Your parents don’t want your success. Isn’t that ironic? Your very own parents don’t want your success; they want your safety. They want you to have a stable, safe, say, accounting job, in a cubicle that only gives you two weeks of vacation a year - because it’s KNOWN and average. A ship in harbor is safe; but that’s not why ships are built. Some safety is OK. But you weren’t built to live a life CENTERED on safety either. That’s not even approaching living your dreams or doing anything ‘extraordinary’. Most people aren’t living their dreams. They’re living their fears. When your parents had you at birth - in the hospital delivery room - they’d be thrilled to know that you’d grow up to live your DREAMS. But on the day-to-day, they’ve got you living your fears. Once your parents got “newborn you” home from the hospital, all the way up to adulthood, an overly fragile safety mindset often becomes pervasive… and it stifles dreams. If you don’t take a chance, you don’t have a chance. Take the risk or lose the chance. Don’t live below your means; grow your means. It’s in your genes… though that probably wasn’t part of the mindset of your formative years. I love my parents. They cultivated the right environment for me. But you’ll often find an overabundance of safety from yours - especially from your mother. Eckhart Tolle said: “Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now. That’s Tolle. Alright. But once you’ve made time, what’s next? It’s how you arrange your priorities. We think it’s about time management - and it STARTS THERE. True achievers in life make large blocks of uninterrupted time - notifications off, phone one room away. But more specifically, it’s about your priority management. For me, I know that I’m going to be living in this same body 50 years from today - just like you will inside yours, so I make FITNESS a priority in life - often at the expense of investing & business opportunity. That’s my take - it doesn’t have to be your take. That’s an example of priority management. First, you’ve got to play a game worth winning. It’s been said that one question to establish focus is, ask yourself: Are you hunting antelope or field mice? This… idea is simple (but supremely powerful): A lion is capable of hunting field mice, but the prize wouldn’t be sufficient reward for the energy required to do so. Instead, the lion must focus on the antelope, which does require considerable energy to hunt, but provide a sufficient reward. In whatever you are pursuing, are you hunting antelope or field mice? Are you focusing on the big, weighty, important tasks that will provide sufficient reward for your energy? Or are you burning calories chasing the tiny wins that won't move the needle? Ask yourself this question from time and time and use your answer to reset as necessary. Always hunt antelope! When it comes to priority management… … you’ve got to make time for yourself and create better “nows” for yourself beyond the mandatory loads that you’re already encumbered with. Because you’ll still have meal planning, grocery shopping, doctor’s appointments, housekeeping, scheduling, meeting, driving… There’s not much leftover discretionary time left over to make you the you that you need to be - whether you’re trying to be the best equestrian rider that you can be because you connect with horses… …you’re trying to be the greatest PARENT ever, cleaning up a beloved local creek, coaching your kid’s sports team… or maybe you’ll move heaven & earth to write that book that you just KNOW that you have inside of you. Get it out there! But instead, people rationalize away their low quality of life. If you’re working for the weekend, examine your M-F. You’re not living in the “now”. If you call Wednesday “hump day”, you’re not living in the now. The good guys are BRAVE enough to risk inv
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