Hey, what’s up, John Sonmez from simpleprogrammer.com.
I got a short question here.
This is a good one though.
This is a deep question here.
It’s kind of funny.
I got this question I think a while back, but I’m going to answer it now.
It comes from Luigi and he says, “Hi John, thank you for all the videos.
I love that.
I have only a “simple” question for you.
Are you happy?
Your lifestyle is awesome, but can you define yourself “happy” in which sense your success
is correlated with your happiness?
Thank you, again.”
That’s from Luigi.
So Luigi, it’s funny, I think answering this question maybe even just a few months
ago I probably would have honestly said I don’t know, but at this point in time I
can say absolutely 100% yes I am happy.
If you’ve been watching my videos for a while you’ve seen some transformations.
Maybe I can get my editor here to put up one of my older squeaky voice videos when I really
didn’t have very much confidence.
I wasn’t really sure what I was doing and I didn’t know my purpose, my mission.
I thought my mission was to—at one point I thought my mission was to retire and make
a bunch of money and then just do whatever I wanted, play video games or whatever.
At one point I thought my mission was well I got to—for the people, for the Simple
Programmer people.
I got to keep this business going even though I don’t want to do it anymore because I
don’t want to let them down, I don’t want to lose my empire.
My thing was just to keep it going.
That was my mission.
At least I thought it was.
Then something happened.
I did a video—I went to a Tony Robbins thing.
It’s not just that.
I mean it’s—different transformations happen in time but I did this Date With Destiny
Seminar and that really solidified a lot of things that I was thinking and it really gave
me a new sense of purpose and mission.
What it did was it helped me discover what my true purpose and mission was.
I have this belief now, this deep belief that we all have sort of a purpose, a mission that
we have deep down and we know what it is and we uncover it in layers at different times
and it transforms.
We see it in different ways.
The more that we get in touch with that, the more that we realize that we have that then
that’s where the true happiness comes from.
It’s not situations.
It’s not circumstances.
I can have a billion dollars and would I be happy?
I don’t know.
There’s lots of people who have multi-million dollars who kill themselves, right?
You could have—I think if you go to the biblical days, Solomon, right, King Solomon?
He had like a thousand hot wives, right?
He definitely wasn’t happy.
He had all the money in the world.
Everything that you can think of or dream of that you think you want or even achieve
or accomplish that’s not what’s going to make you happy.
What’s going to make you happy is realizing that every single morning the battle begins
in you.
You’re never getting somewhere.
You’re always fighting.
That’s not a bad thing, right?
It’s because you’re fighting for your purpose.
Once you’ve figured that out, once you connect with that and hopefully—and I’m sure that
if you watch the videos you’ve been seeing as I’ve been progressing, I’ve been learning.
I’ve still got more, I got more times that I’m going to have to burn up like a phoenix
and go into the ashes and rise up again.
It’s going to happen, it’s happened multiple times in my life and will keep happening and
every time my goal, my mission is to get deeper down to that core, to that purpose and as
I do that that’s when things start—that’s when the level of happiness changes.
Some people will never, they’ll never.
It’s only by the grace of God that I’ve been shown a little bit of light, was able
to pull that open and I feel like I’m being able to see more of it.
So yeah, so honestly I can say that I am happy now.
I would encourage you, all of you, that listen, that watch these videos to figure that out,
figure what your purpose is.
You might have to dig deep and to realize that—as soon as you dispel that myth that
things and situations are going to make you happy and you realize that what is really
truly going to make you happy is knowing your purpose, uncovering it more and more everyday
and living it, living it, right?
That means sometimes you’re going to be busting your butt, sometimes you’re going
to be having fun but every single moment of life you’re living life instead of waiting
for life to begin.
So many people are sitting there waiting for their lives to begin.
It’s not going to happen.
There’s on rehearsal, there’s no dress rehearsal.
This is it so start living it now.
Once I started to see that, and again, it took me a long time to see that but I see
it now and I know it now.
I can tell you how good it feels to be so firmly planted in that and to know it for
sure that—I feel indestructible.
Anyway, I do feel happy and I appreciate you asking this simple question that really doesn’t
have a simple answer.
If you’ve got a question for me, even a simple one, even a philosophical one or real
estate or fitness, whatever it is I’m happy to answer it.
Just email me at john@simpleprogrammer.com.
In the mean time I’ll be doing my purpose.
I’ll be fulfilling my mission here on YouTube, on the podcast, wherever it takes me.
If you want to be part of my mission subscribe to the channel.
I’ll talk to you next time.
Take care.