What's financial freedom? Like, what is it to you and what is it to the world? You
know, it's one of those things where people are talking about residual
incomes and financial freedom and financially independent and
wealthy and today we're really going to dissect what it is and how do you know
when you actually get there.
Financial freedom, you know, to really talk about it, you got to ask yourself
what is it? Steven, for you, of all the different ways you've heard financial
freedom defined and described, what is it? - I can narrow a financial freedom down to
one word actually.. Peace. I think that oftentimes, we associate financial
freedom with chasing after a certain money goal, chasing after a certain
business goal but really, I think financial freedom for me comes down to
peace. Do I feel that peace of mind? Do I have that calm feeling
that regardless of what happens I'm going to be okay and that's what
financial freedom so I don't really have a number set to it, it's that feeling of
peace. - Yeah and I want to build on this concept of peace and I want to give you
a definition to write down. Financial freedom is to have enough resource for
every inspired choice that you have. The reason why Steven and I, Steven's
talking about peace and I'm talking about resources for every inspired
choice is because you got to go beyond what people used to think retirement was,
right? I mean, this idea, the only people that want to retire people that hate
their jobs. Let's be honest, right? And they say that when you quit, when
you retire from your job, the average male only lives five more years
and then it's lights out.
So guess what happens when you live a life with doing what you don't like and then
you get to retirement and it's not really what you thought that it would be
so what could you do with your life even now before you quit the job or have the
money to do those things that would produce peace and inspiration in your
life? Because there's one thing that we're really after that's way higher up
on the scale than retirement and what that's called is fulfillment. Pieces and
energy, I've done my work, I've shared my message, I've done the things that I felt
inspired do and combine and add into it this idea that it's having enough
resources for every in spirit choice. I get inspired every day. I could be
inspired today to go take my kids out of school and then go take them up to the
museum and the museum might cost a hundred dollars but do I have the
resources, in this case money, the time to be able to do that because if
that's what's going to be inspired, if that's what is going to create
fulfillment then do I possess the resources for doing that? - And I love that
you say resources here and I want to dive in into what this really means
because we're not saying that you need to have all the money to do
everything that you ever wanted to do right there in that moment but you need
to have the resources or the resourcefulness to be able to get to
where you want to go. I mean, the reality is, once you get to that space of
financial freedom, you learn that there are so many resources outside of
yourself, you learn that you don't have to fulfill everything just by yourself,
that if I wanted to go build a company, maybe you need ten million dollars to
grow this successful company, maybe you don't have ten million dollars but you
can still have financial freedom and that you know where to find those things, you
are resourceful. - Yeah, at some point you got to stop doing things for money.
The thing is, when financial freedom when it's all defined by a number, when
it's all defined by having a certain amount of money, the reality is that a
lot of us envision a world where we have no responsibilities and that is not the
life that actually produces the fulfillment and the joy so what we're
here to do today in this video is redefine retirement by redefining
financial freedom. Financial freedom is that ability to pull in the peace of
mind and to live an inspired life to have the resources you need for
everything that you want to do. You know I remember when I retire the first time
at 26, I literally, I quit my job in for 6 months, was trying to figure out what
I wanted to do with my life. I had tons of time at home, tons of time with my
wife and at that time I only had one child and we started doing some
traveling and I just remember after 6 months of it being like, man, this whole
thing of having enough money so you don't have to have a job. That cannot be
what this financial freedom is all about because you know, it's better than where
I was at, I like that I'm not doing the things that I didn't enjoy as much or
and some of the things that I didn't enjoy at all and yet that still isn't
producing all the energy of fulfillment that I was hoping for in my life and
fulfillment, these days, I'm working harder than it ever worked when I had a
job. I'm actually working more hours often and did all work hard play hard
but I'm putting a ton of effort and energy in and I can't imagine doing it
anything different. - See, retirement, like you said, you know, retirement actually
used to be an agricultural term and retirement literally meant to put the
cows out to pasture, this was the end of their days where they would go
out to die and that being said, I don't want to necessarily redefine
retirement, I just want to get away from using the
retirement at all because it's not about retirement, it's about like you said,
living a truly fulfilled life now. Retirement indicates that you can't live
fulfilled until some point out in the future. - And that future never becomes the
present so we always feel like there's something missing and
we're actually wiring and firing our neurons in our brain together and saying,
hey, listen up, dummy. You haven't made it yet, you can't be
happy, you can't be fulfilled because you don't have enough money yet. - Right so
it's not about retirement, it's about being fulfilled and our challenge
for you today is to feel fulfilled now, to begin feeling of fulfillment.
Choose today that you're going to be financially free, that you're gonna feel
the peace all around you based on your even current situation and as you do
that, you begin to attract all the resources, all of the resourcefulness
that you need, even all of the money that you need to feel that lasting and growing
peace to feel fulfilled today not tomorrow. - So really, this video really
comes down with Steven's suggestion here down to, do you know how to ask the
powerful question? Because we only get, you know, if dumb questions yield, dumb
answers and they say there's no such thing as a dumb question I'm saying that
if you ask a powerful question you're gonna get a powerful answer and if every
day you ask this question, start your day with it. What do I get to do today to
create fulfillment? And then do that thing that comes up for you and then do
it later in the day and if you're doing it actually throughout the day and you
make this a pattern, you wire it in your brain, it's just who you are then you
have the opportunity no matter what your bank account looks like at the end of
the day, you have the chance to go to bed and say, I inquired, I received
information on what would create fulfillment for me and I did that thing.
I know that my wife just did this, she was just here in the kitchen
and she said, "I just made my son Daniels dance." And how did you do that? She said, "You
know, months ago he earned, he had to get done his reading for the whole month and
then basically earned this free Godfather's Pizza and because we
have like no sugar in our house and we're largely vegan and we
have a certain clean way of eating. You know my kids, Danny was just like,
"Mom, what are we going to do this pizza thing?" And finally she said, "Today's the
day to be supermom." The inspiration that came was, I'm going to whisk Daniel away
during his school lunch break, we're going to go get
that pizza even though it's unhealthy and we're going to
recognize him for his reading achievement and so she went and she did
that and went by the time she dropped him back off to school, he was just
beaming, he was beaming because he felt recognized and that was something that
she did that made a huge impact on him. Everyone of us has the ability to make
an impact on our life, our spouses, our families, our friends, our loved ones,
you know, there's people, even strangers and if we're living our life with a
little bit of a different lens that says wow, what will make me happy today? What
choices can I make that will allow me to serve and bring joy to other people? What
feels inspired? You know the other day, I was inspired for the years doing my big
goals and I felt really challenged to ask myself, what do I want to give this
year? It's not about getting, I'm not the richest person on planet, I'm not a
billionaire but I'm in a place that if I want to buy something, I buy it. If I want
to travel somewhere, I'd travel there so I've travel international multiple times
throughout the year. I live in a beautiful home, I get to drive the cars.
You know at some point, if those things don't become your identity and the
driving force in your life then what does? And I asked myself a question for
this 2018, what would bring some of the greatest joy and because I was making
goals of what I wanted to achieve for me and my family and what came up to me
that really moved me was, I'd like to free a hundred girls from the sex slave
trade. It's $2,500 for
everyone that you're free. That's a $250,000 goal. I've given
money to charities and foundations and have done some different things, my
church before but honestly, I've never done anything on that magnitude. You know,
I've got some other goals of people that I want to feed and some other things but
that one, I found out this morning that as I was reviewing my goals and seeking
my inspiration for what would create fulfillment today, when I got there,
Steven, it pierced my heart and I'm absolutely certain that it's going to
happen this year. I don't exactly know how cause I don't have to know that this
moment, I just have to have certainty on what I want and
it really just emotionally took me over. I'm looking how what I'm doing
today and asking myself, what can I do to help pull the funds or resources or
people or whatever together to make that dream come true because if I did that,
that might be the most important thing I do this year, not the money I make or
where I travel or who I got to mean, it's not how much I can make, it's how
I can give and so as you're contemplating this concept of financial
freedom, here are some of the final principles and you want to leave with
you that you can take some notes on and revisit. These are some powerful
questions for you. Number one, what can you do today that will produce
fulfillment for you? Here's another thing to write down. I have the resources that I
need for every inspired choice. Right? Because if you get a, if intuition
comes up and it gives you a suggestion like, well that'll cost money.. Listen, if
there's one thing to put your money towards, if you're ever going to like divert
it from the the typical plan, put it in towards the things that inspire you
because those are the things that will motivate you, drive you, those are the
things that lead your life, your results, your emotions, ultimately produce that
fulfillment for you, that's the second thing. The third one is practice every
day creating a present moment to step into peace. In the moment that peace is
robbed, ask yourself, what can I do today to step back into that peace? How do I
actually restore that peace? How do I magnify that peace of my life? And
these three questions, these thoughts, these ideas, we hope that they help you
on your journey of evaluating what financial freedom is for you and that
allows you to realize that whatever your definition is and whatever you come up
with, make sure that it is achievable today, not tomorrow, not next decade, not
when you retire because if you can find a way to grab it today then you are
amongst the richest people on the planet. Do you feel ready for stepping into your
financial freedom plan? Do you feel more committed and more ready to take action
on what can help build the wealth as you're building the right kind of
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inspired choices come your way.