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in the previous video in this series
series i was talking about listening
listening to your heart that
that kind of thing and this video
video i wanted to kind of continue
continue talking about that but in
in a slightly different way and this
this is more talking about i guess
guess like kind of as you get older
older or as you think more about your
your life and what you're doing you
you tend to try different things and
and that's why i was talking about
about in that previous video about
about listening to your your heart
heart or that little voice in the
the back of your head that's saying
saying hey you should you should try
try doing that thing even if you feel
feel nervous about it or you're scared
scared or maybe you don't know how
how it will work out like if you get
get that feeling you
you should follow that because i guarantee
guarantee you like when you listen
listen to your voice and
and that little voice in the back
back of your head and it takes you
you to a good place you'll be happy
happy that you did and that will be
be it will make that that ability
ability to listen to yourself to listen
listen to yourself much
much stronger so you can actually
actually have better you know make
make better make better choices about
about life without having to have
have like all kinds of information
information because honestly they're
they're just many times where it doesn't
doesn't matter even if you have lots
lots of information you make a choice
choice and then it ends up not working
working out very well for you so
so I've noticed kind of in my own
own life when i try to think too much
much about something I end up making
making a bad decision about something
something but if I just kind of relax
relax and listen and feel which is
is the better choice I
I tend to make the right choice anyway
anyway this is related to this and
and I just wanted to tell a story
story about a kind of like I guess
guess just to give a tale for you
you to make sure that whatever the
the choices you're making in your
your life are you doing the things
things that you should be doing or
or that you say you'd like to be doing
doing that kind of thing so
so this was back maybe i don't know
know like 10 years ago yeah
yeah I guess well maybe a little bit
bit little bit maybe eight years ago
ago 10 years ago something like that
that and i was learning about like
like real estate and other things
things and I was telling people yeah
yeah I want to like get into real
real estate i really like to like
like learn more about that I didn't
didn't want to become like a like
like a realtor something like that
that i wanted to buy properties because
because I thought it would be fun
fun to like fix them up and you know
know it's something physical i can
can i can build and maybe do something
something interesting with it and
and then rent them or sell them or
or something like that so I talked
talked about it in like but when i
i was in situations like I i lived
lived in seattle for a while for a
a couple of years actually worked
worked as a I was a manager at a hotel
hotel for a while I worked at a sushi
sushi restaurant - but now it's kind
kind of beside the point for
for this lesson but anyway so i was
was living in seattle and when I was
was talking to like kind of looking
looking to tour is talking to different
different apartment managers about
about a place I could live it
it didn't really occur to meet it
it like okay I'm going to like maybe
maybe become a manager of a particular
particular apartment something like
like that
like that I
I just didn't think about that so
so even though i was in the back of
of my mind thinking about real estate
estate like the situation was in front
front of me but I like didn't see
see it and so when I went in one of
of the people that was interviewing
interviewing me just to become like
like a regular renter I was just looking
looking for an apartment i wasn't
wasn't looking for a job but he was
was saying oh like why don't you become
become like the manager of this place
place i don't know he just wanted
wanted me to become the manager and
and so said okay fine whatever so
so I was doing like kind of some cleaning
cleaning and a little bit like managing
managing stuff but not a big deal
deal in the apartment thing and another
another friend because i worked on
on a fishing boat in Alaska for a
a little while like a little bit before
before i went to Seattle so
so I lived in Alaska for a while and
and came back to Japan for a little
little bit and then when i was living
living in seattle again I would I
I was also doing the I like the the
the guy that was the brother of the
the guy whose boat i was living on
on in
on in in
in Alaska he lived in around seattle
seattle and so he was kind of doing
doing real estate stuff and so it
it was really funny that like while
while i was on the boat in Alaska
Alaska so I was out there for about
about
about I guess
I guess three months in a little bit
bit this is in the summer i think
think what I don't know however many
many years ago it was but before I
I went out to seattle and so I was
was reading books on the boat about
about you know real estate whatever
whatever i'm kind of like drawing
drawing that to me so I had no idea
idea that the captain of the ship
ship his brother was into real estate
estate that kind of thing and
and so when I was thinking about it
it like when I actually got to seattle
seattle and then I was able to connect
connect with him I kind of like just
just the captain was like I mean he
he liked me and he was like oh why
why don't you connect with my brother
brother and you can talk about real
real estate and like learn a little
little bit from him in like I kind
kind of did but I didn't really like
like it was it was weird it's like
like I had been learning about and
and kind of like looking for that
that opportunity but like I didn't
didn't do anything with that opportunity
opportunity and it's one of those
those things that I don't regret now
now I mean I can go back and learn
learn about real estate at any time
time but like the thing that I kind
kind of missed the chance on was listening
listening to like the voice that was
was like hey like Drew like wake up
up like there's an opportunity around
around you right now we're like you
you have been learning about this
this and now you're being like you're
you're like connected with like the
the owner of this building as an apartment
apartment manager and if you would
would just ask him for like advice
advice or learning how to do that
that he would probably teach you and
and this other guy who's like able
able to teach about real estate or
or whatever like I'm sure he would
would be able to teach you a lot too
too but I didn't notice it it
it was really weird and i didn't i
i didn't realize it until after I
I left Seattle and I think the reason
reason was probably because I was
was more interested in coming back
back to Japan and doing the things
things that I do out here then staying
staying in America so even though
though like I still think about real
real estate and it's a lot of fun
fun to think about you know going
going back into that and learning
learning more about that when I returned
returned home at some point in the
the future I
I guess I just wasn't really thinking
thinking about it at the time so
so what I'm kind of getting at here
here is kind of a long story but what
what I'd like you to do is think about
about is there a situation in your
your life now where it could be something
something that's like really valuable
valuable or something that maybe its
its leading you in a particular direction
direction even something that you
you really want but it's like you
you don't notice it and maybe you
you could comment down below if you've
you've had a similar experience even
even if it's not current in your life
life
life but
but something where like all of these
these things were kind of pushing
pushing you in a direction that was
was like a positive direction for
for you but you you just like didn't
didn't take it for some reason and
and so I thought about that a lot
lot after i left Seattle and it was
was like wow like i was in this situation
situation where I had kind of learned
learned about these things and i was
was able to find people that could
could kind of teach me about that
that but I didn't take advantage of
of the situation I would like just
just actually didn't notice it for
for some weird reason for any maybe
maybe it's not even such a weird reason
reason again I kinda wanted to leave
leave the country and I wasn't really
really thinking about staying in America
America anyway at that point but just
just the fact that like all those
those things came together because
because i was just like i think i've
i've talked about this earlier in
in this series when I talk about the
the rules of fluency and how you're
you're really focused on something
something even if you don't know exactly
exactly how you will do it and you
you keep pushing towards that thing
thing that's what's going to bring
bring you success the people that
that weight and they try to think
think about it and make sure to make
make sure that like they have every
every angle or every maybe way that
that something could go positive or
or could go negative something like
like that they try to think about
about all those things and then they
they end up doing nothing so
so that's why most of the time i will
will continue to move and even if
if i don't know exactly how I'm going
going to do something or what's exactly
exactly the best way to do it I
I would just kind of keep moving and
and keep pushing towards that thing
thing and eventually I ended up making
making it but on this occasion and
and i'm sure it's happened to me at
at other times in my life but when
when that happens to you like make
make the choice to kind of open your
your eyes and see like what what are
are the forces in my life right now
now pushing me to do whatever those
those happen to be and it could be
be something positive hopefully it's
it's not anything negative but presumably
presumably it's something you want
want and either you don't do it because
because I guess you don't think about
about it like he didn't notice it
it just like I didn't notice it or
or you're scared about that thing
thing
thing it's
it's ok to be scared about something
something it's okay to say like well
well and like like I really want to
to go to America and my friend is
is saying hey come to America he has
has like a place for me to stay in
in like I could get a job there and
and these other things but i'm a little
little bit nervous so like you have
have the opportunity but either you
you don't notice it or you do notice
notice it and you're just like you
you something is stopping you
from
from from
from taking that chance and that's
that's the point where we come back
back to like listening to that voice
voice inside you wherever that is
is in your head or your ear your shoulder
shoulder or whatever it happens to
to be so when you think about that
that
that don't
don't make the mistake I did and I'm
I'm happy like I kind of did the thing
thing that I did I was and i'm sure
sure would have been fine weather
weather i'm learning about real estate
estate for a little bit or I was doing
doing like working at a sushi place
place or whatever it doesn't really
really matter but the point is like
like my life was kind of pushing me
me in that way and i wanted to go
go that way but I didn't and I'd like
like you to think about if there's
there's anything in your life right
right now maybe not that you're unhappy
unhappy with it but that maybe is
is not like happening as well as you'd
you'd like it to be because you're
you're kind of holding yourself back
back either because you don't know
know or because you're kind of nervous
nervous about that thing so
so think about the things that you
you really want to do whatever that
that happens to be and you can also
also think about is it like feeling
feeling good for you to do that thing
thing like when you think about yes
yes like should I have another baby
baby or should i should i leave her
her like should I go to a different
different country to do something
something should i make some major
major decision like that just relax
relax and and just feel again like
like flipping a coin like I talked
talked about in the previous lesson
lesson in this series where you're
you're flipping a coin to decide like
like how do you feel right in that
that moment where you flip the coin
coin you see if it's heads or tails
tails and maybe you like think like
like oh no like I didn't really want
want that one so you choose to do
do the other thing instead but try
try to listen to the actual feeling
feeling that you get not like what
what your head is telling you and
and if you can train yourself to do
do this more it's
it's going to help you make better
better decisions but it will also
also tell you kind
kind of like if you're bullshitting
bullshitting or not now I want to
to be bullshitting about something
something just means like are you
you like saying you want to do something
something but not actually talking
talking about it like i tell people
people hey I want to get fit and like
like work out or whatever but I never
never do so I'm just bullshitting
bullshitting about that so
so I say hey I want to learn about
about real estate but when opportunities
opportunities come to me like I don't
don't take them and I think in my
my case like for that specific example
example I just like really didn't
didn't want to be in seattle at that
that point anyway so I think maybe
maybe I'm ok but it was just a very
very clear example that I learned
learned from and
and I hope you can learn from it as
as well where if you're listening
listening to that voice in the back
back of your head it can teach you
you to do things our show you to do
do things in a way that even if you're
you're uncomfortable or scared listen
listen to that voice like your body
body is not going to tell you anything
anything or tell you to do something
something that would be bad for you
you think about it like that so
so your body would not be like well
well yeah did go to America because
because you're gonna die out there
there or whatever like your body knows
knows already like if it's a good
good thing like yeah that's a good
good decision now we gotta we gotta
gotta like make him make drew like
like actually do that thing anyway
anyway - some more food for thought
thought
thought something
something to think about some food
food for thought instead of food for
for your stomach but I will leave
leave it with with this for now hopefully
hopefully just giving you again something
something to think about but
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