125 – Three Rules to Live By Every Single Day

Welcome to episode #125! Where does the time go? I have been doing these podcasts for over two years. Wow! I LOVE every second of it. I love helping, teaching, inspiring, and motivating. If you are listening today, thank you very much. Today, I am going to share with you three rules that I live by every single day. It has nothing to do with eating, nothing about exercising, nothing about meditation, these are three entirely different rules that I live by every day.

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The 3 Rules I Live By Everyday

  1. I did not invent this but I follow this rule everyday. I follow the “golden rule”. For those of you who don’t know that means that I treat others that way that I want to be treated. It sounds so simple and trite. But these days it seems that people are so inconsiderate. I spend my life trying to be considerate to other people and I think if more people were like that the world would be a better place to live. I always try to do the right thing. Whatever I do in my life I would never want it to negatively impact someone else’s enjoyment or time. So please live by the golden rule. If even most of you listen to me and abide by that then I think we will have a much better planet.
  2. I’ve talked about this before. It is something that I believe in very strongly and do everyday. Do what you love. My life has totally changed since I began living by this rule. It hasn’t always been this way. When I was going through secondary school and professional school, I wasn’t doing what I loved. I couldn’t look in the mirror and say that I loved what I did everyday. I got into the mindset that I am going to do what I love everyday. When you can’t tell the difference between work and a vacation or the weekend and your work, then you have arrived and you are doing what you love. It really bothers me when I hear people say things like “just two more days until the weekend then thank God it’s Friday”, or “I can’t to go on vacation, I have to get out of this rat race”. I think to myself what kind of life are you living? Why would you ever want to live most of your days doing something that you don’t like? Why would you ever do that? I’ve done it both ways. I have been there. I have been in jobs that I didn’t like and jobs that I didn’t like and relationships that I didn’t like. I don’t think there is anybody out there that is going to argue with me when I say that it’s much better to be doing what you love everyday than something that you hate every day. If someone disagrees with that and says that you should be doing something that you hate, hey if you want to follow them go ahead and follow them. I’m not going to 🙂 The same thing goes for a relationship. If you are in a relationship and it is not working out for you and you are dreading it, it’s going nowhere, and you are upset and anxious, change it. I am not a proponent of divorce. Divorce is not easy. It’s horrible. Your first choice is to try to make it better. Go to counseling and work things out if necessary. But if it doesn’t work, move on and find something better. Life is short. Don’t stay in something that you are hating. Don’t do it!
  3. This is something that I have been doing lately. It is a game changer. It’s one compound word – downsize. I’m coming at you from experience because I have done things both ways. I used to live a life where I had this big house, fancy cars in the garage, and the kids in private school, and a closet full of clothes. It was a bunch of things I just didn’t need. There was not one “thing” that made me happy. Things don’t make me happy. Being with the right people, that’s what makes me happy. Not something in my closet, jewelry, or a fancy car. I like a good car but that does not make me happy. So I’ve learned to downsize my life. I paid off anything that I owed. I paid off my mortgage and I own my home free and clear. I have regular bills but I don’t have any loans or credit card debt. It doesn’t matter how much money or how little money you are making, you can do the same thing. It’s called downsizing and it means that you are spending way less money than you make. It’s not difficult to do. I don’t spend my life chasing after the almighty dollar like so many people do. I keep my life very simple but I have always been responsible with my money. I put money into retirement. I just don’t need a ton of money to be happy. My wife Yoko and I are able to travel and do the things that we want and we don’t travel extravagantly. I am not staying at the Ritz Carlton. We stay in comfortable places. I’ve even gone through my closets and cabinets to get rid of stuff. When you try to get rid of stuff in your life, it will be so much better. I will leave you with this story. Sometime last year I ended up writing the largest check I’ve written in my entire life. And I wrote this check to this person to make my life more peaceful. The minute I wrote that check most of my money was gone. A good percentage of it anyway. But guess what? I feel better now than before I wrote the check. It was worth so much more than having that money sitting in my bank account. I have less now and I am happier than I have been in my entire life!

These are the rules that I follow everyday. If you do, I am sure good things will happen in your life as well.

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