every experience that has brought you to where you are today
gives you more confidence
something that most people are afraid of is failing
well andrea wasn't happy after we got married
she came home and she started crying because we weren't seeing each other
like most of the time we were working instead of with each other
so she said one day like I'm gonna quit my job you should quit yours and we should just start our own business
most people in their honeymoon are doing a lot of other things but doing a business plan
and that's what we were doing in our honeymoon
we were just straight up just listening to podcasts and audio books and all the things that would motivate us to put together a business plan
looking back at all this work we have done like quit our jobs buying a boat
living our own lifestyle it has been worth it like a hundred percent
if we didn't quit our jobs we would never
i mean we will have to wait uh until we were like 60 years old to buy a boat or just to travel
i was working in insurance and alejo was working in retail in t-mobile and i mean we were happy
because we weren't unhappy people but it wasn't like super fulfilling
we weren't doing something that we were passionate about we were just kind of like at some point i got to like an autopilot
i was like wow this sucks like
i don't know how to say it but
it wasn't something that made me you know feel super happy and love what i was doing
and you know it sounds super cliche and super corney but like the things that everyone says like
if you love your job you're never gonna work a day in your life and i'm not kidding
since the day that i quit my job i look forward to waking up every day and grabbing my computer and working
and i can work like now i'm actually a workaholic because i love my job so much
i can just wake up and you know do it with so much love and and you know keep working until i go to sleep
like alejo actually gives me that balance to not work so much
today is our last day here in the bahamas
we will be heading to the dominican republic
we're sailing to our last anchorage we already did the checkout here in the bahamas
and today is going to be our last day spear fishing here in the bahamas
we have to clean the boat and we have 22 knots of wind so it's really windy
and we're going at a really nice speed you can almost see the catamaran just going a little bit tilting healing a little bit
we are getting ready and we are preparing to go scuba diving it is time to clean the boat
boat cleaning day getting our gear ready diving tanks filled up
getting our belts
we are ready for the boat cleaning day let's do this
while i was working T-Mobile yeah i was happy we were happy
but we weren't like we were working to live
not living and working
it felt like we were just working to pay for a house and pay for cars
and at what point did we actually enjoy the work that we were putting in
to our daily lives when we actually didn't get enough time to do the things that we
actually enjoyed doing
but aside from the material things like the house and the cars
there wasn't anything that was fulfilling like what we do now
to be honest the day that we both left our jobs was one of the scariest days of our lives
but it was the best decision that we've ever made
quitting our jobs was the first step then going to dominican republic for three months
then
getting a travel trailer
and now we're in a boat it's like every single step that we take
gives you more confidence
and something that most people are afraid of is failing
so now that we have like so much like i don't know experience
and just like traveling and keep going
i think it's something that it makes it easier to keep growing like our lifestyle or our own lives right
we were so afraid when we were quitting our jobs
we were so afraid we had thousands of dollars to pay every single month
because we had just purchased our house the cars all this stuff
and it was really scary because it's not like we had a backup plan
we had no plan we had zero dollars in our bank account because we had already spent all our money remodeling our house
and so we had no plan like it was
that was plan A, plan B, plan C, like it had to work
or we were gonna be like i don't know bankrupt, who knows what
so we had to make it work
we have to fill our refrigerators because we haven't purchased anything here in the bahamas
any provisions because we've been waiting to arrive to the dominican republic
since the food there and the provisions it's a lot cheaper than here in the bahamas
we are going to try to spearfish today to catch some food and to hopefully fill our refrigerators because it will be the last time that we will be spearfishing here so
maybe a lobster maybe some fish some conch, who knows
we are down to have some seafood
so we made it back on the boat
unfortunately, we came back home empty-handed we didn't even get to shoot the spear pole once
because we didn't see a lobster we didn't see lionfish we didn't see snapper
we saw nassau groupers but you're not supposed to eat nassau grouper i mean you could
but they take a long time to reproduce it that why
I'm not really sure why but you're not supposed to eat nassau groupers
we saw a beautiful massive stingray that was like i don't know almost my size i think
it's a good goodbye to the bahamas
i knew i had to change something take a leap of faith and take a risk
and create a life worth living
one that i would live on purpose and give it my full potential
you're risking everything that you own you're putting yourself to test
and you're facing your fears and you're getting as uncomfortable as you can possibly get
it takes a lot a lot of courage to take that step and take that leap of faith in your dreams
and on your ability to make them happen but it is so worth it
living your life doing what really really matters to you and being present every second of the day
because you're deeply in love with the life that you built
if someone asks me like what do you do
i'm not thinking about a job i'm thinking like yeah i travel that's my answer
i travel or i go sailing, i live on a sailboat
every experience that you live in your life has brought you to where you are today
and it has given you the confidence the courage the everything for you face fear in the face and
say i'm not afraid i'm willing to jump and i'm willing to do it and i'm willing to fail and
i'm willing to
you can't succeed if you're not willing to fail
you won't know what success is unless you can fail
so
so go out there and fail a few times and then you will succeed
there's no better way to change the world and to make an impact in the world
than when you take all your skills and you take all of your passion and what you're good at
and put it to something that you love that is going to like serve the world
i want to help all the animals out there, i want to do it
this youtube channel i hope we're able to inspire or motivate someone to just be happy
and just do what they love, that's.. that's kind of the purpose
the purpose is not for someone to buy a sailboat
the purpose is not for someone to kitesurf or do what we do
the purpose is for you to find whatever it is that you love doing that you like
and for you to go and take that step and take that leap of faith on yourself and go and push yourself to do it
you just gotta get out of your comfort zone and once you get out there
it's gonna feel weird
it's gonna feel like something's wrong like nothing's gone it's gonna go right
but once you feel that fear that discomfort that means you're living
if you don't have that feeling in your life
then you you might have a boring life
or you're gonna.. like you have a routine and there's nothing wrong with a routine
but you have to live
you have to chase what you like
if you already did what you like then chase something more
chase excitement something that brings a lot of happiness in your life
or do something good for other people that also might fill you up
you know it doesn't matter what it is but it just has to make your heart feel full
and if it's not what you're feeling right now then the only thing that you can do is take a leap of faith and make a change
because if you don't make a change every single year goes by faster
and then you just one second you're just gonna look back and you're gonna see yourself in the same place that you were years ago
without making that change
so you know people always say like you only live once but
but really you only live once but if you live once and you do it right and you do what you love and you push yourself
and you seek discomfort and
that's more than enough and and honestly we have
you know alejo
we're just in our 20s and we can look back and you know god forbid but if something happens to us tomorrow
at least we can say that we did everything we wanted
and that we most importantly that we were very happy
we were very happy
hakuna matata it means no worries