 What's up team? It should be the biggest fan of the RealCastadero and I put up a video where I was talking about why I use Windows 10 and someone asked that I do a desk tour. And so I'm going to show you guys exactly my setup here. So for those of you guys who don't know who've never met me before, my name is the RealCastadero and I am currently a full-time YouTuber, web developer and entrepreneur and I do contract work but I don't really I try to stay away from it. So my focus right now is building just my own knit sites, just different websites around the internet about things that I'm interested in. You can check out my website over at the realcastadero.com team and that's what I do pretty much and I make YouTube videos and I upload them and I also have a online course for people who want to learn web development. Now this isn't for advanced people, it's for people who are like right at the beginning of their journey. They've been thinking about learning the code or maybe they have an idea for app or something and they just don't know where to start. And I, unlike a lot of course developers, I just focus on the core knowledge, the core primary stuff because when I was coming up and I'm from the south side of Chicago, for you guys that don't know, the south side of Chicago is, it was in bad shape when I was a kid. I was born there in the 1980s during the crack epidemic and that's what I grew up in. And it is what it is. I don't know team, but anyway, at one point my mom was like, hey, I got to get out of here. So she had me and my brother pack up all her stuff and we got on a plane and we flew to Anchorage, Alaska and that's where I lived from 1995 to 99 and then I joined the Army in 1999 and I was in the Army for 14 and a half years and I came here, I came here to Washington to the Pacific Northwest in 2004. So, you know, a long time ago. But yeah, that's a little bit of my backstory team. I was in the Army obviously, I was a communications specialist and eventually I ran my own, I ran my own communication section. We had two striker combat vehicles, a couple, 50 cow machine guns. There was, you know, my team changed sizes. You know, we went from six people up to 12 people and then when we deployed, I took over battalion communications and I had a battle space, a communications battle space of 92 square kilometers. So basically, you know, for most people who are watching this video, the city you live in, I acted as the, I would have been like your telecom company, your phone company. We had cell phone antennas, we had radio antennas, we had satellite dishes, we had TV. I mean, like you name it, phones, fiber optic cable, we're supplying internet to people out in the middle of nowhere, using wireless radio systems, all kinds of stuff, team. And I left there, I went into sales for a little bit, I was in car sales and then I went off into, I went off to work as a dev op administrator for a company that contracts IT people. Insight Global, if you guys are interested, you can go out and apply to that. I'm not, I haven't worked for Insight Global since, you know, since that, that was the first and the last time I worked for them, but I didn't, I got nothing bad to say. My experience was really good. My experience was good, really fantastic working at Microsoft as a dev op administrator. So yeah, man, I'm just, I'm in the tech. That's my thing. But at one point, you know, I had got fired from that job. And then I went into, you know, a little bit of a depression, I was like, I'm going to start my own business. And then eventually I went out and I went out and I got another, I got a job as a web developer. And I'll make a video about my first day as a web developer for people that are interested. And then I went off and, you know, I had been making YouTube videos and all this stuff all this time. But while I was working that job, I saw what was going on in the business. And I realized, I mean, I always knew, just like you guys always know, I realized that the owner of the business, he was no smarter than me. And I was no smarter than him. We just had different skill sets. But the things that I knew about the internet, he didn't understand. And he wanted me to focus on some other stuff. But that's not me. I'm a technologist. I'm a computer scientist. I'm a developer. I've devoted my life to this game team. I gave, you know, 14 years of my life to, to the United States Army. And, you know, I realized at that point that, you know, with all my experience, my leadership experience that, you know, I should be out on my own doing my own thing. And the universe had been calling me to do it. So I did. Right. And I'm going to tell you guys, it's not easy. You just don't quit your job and go out and start a business and try to buy all this stuff. There is definitely a better way to go about it than the way that I went about it. But, you know, each of us have our own story. I'm just here to share my story with you. And, you know, you take from that what, what you may, and I mean, before you make any moves, just think it over and, you know, you make your own decisions for you team. But so, so basically what I'm going to try to do is I'm going to try to keep it so like, so, so I go in some kind of order and it makes sense and I, and I catch everything. I don't, I don't want to miss anything. And I'm going to start with probably like, what's the most important thing to me in this whole setup right here. And that's this sign up here that says the real Casadero. Because me and my wife, we were going through some things. And I mean, you know, not relationship wise, but, but marriages are hard just so you guys know. I'm not saying like we argue and we fight and stuff like that. But I love my wife dearly. She is probably, I mean, she's my best friend. And so when I, when I first started uploading videos to YouTube, it was when I was selling cars and I had, we were doing good. We were making good money for a long time. And then boom, you know, I was in the reserves. I had to go off and do some training. And when I came back a month later, it was hard for me to build those numbers up again. And we were losing, we were losing money. We were using our savings to live. And it got real tough. And we had to rely on our family. So, you know, I've just, I've just been blessed in so many ways in my life team. And so I don't want you to think that like, some people see stuff like this and they go, oh man, you know, this guy, he's on YouTube and he's making all kinds of money. That is definitely not the case team. It will be, you know, and it was at one point in the past, but there's ups and downs, right? So we were, we were struggling at the time. And then boom, the universe called me to work at Microsoft and I went there and the pay was great. And it was fantastic. Now I didn't buy any of this stuff while I was working there. I bought all this stuff after that. But like I said, when I was selling cars, I started the YouTube channel and the channel just started to grow. And I think it was, I think it started, I think it was growing because I was making content like this, but I was on a little bitty surface computer and or my MacBook and I was just laying on my living room floor recording videos. And as the numbers grew, she would buy me different things. And I think this was probably like a birthday gift. And she bought this because my, my name was the real Casadero and it blinks and all kinds of stuff team is super cool. But that reminds me of like, not only why, because I don't just do it for my family. I do it for, I do it for, for my, for my viewers, for my subscribers, for my fans out there, but I do it for my 16 year old self because, because there's a lot of kids out there who are like me, they're growing up in the ghetto and, and you know, I think back to when I was at age and I didn't, I never thought about getting out beyond that. Like everything on TV was fictitious. It was fake to me, right? It didn't seem like the real world. And there's a lot of people living like that right now. So I'm just, I'm just here to tell you guys, like you can do it. There's, if you got the mindset in, in, you know, so you could subscribe to the channel and watch my videos and watch my future videos. I'll talk more about that stuff team. But that sign right there, that's where that sign came from. I didn't make that. My wife made it for me and I'll put it right there so I can see it. And then I record my videos, you know, somewhere in this area over here. And so that sign shows, hey, I'm the, I'm the real Casadero team. And this office, this whole office setup is in my bedroom. The camera is actually on top of my bed. We got a big, huge king size bed in here. And I used to have all this stuff in what's now my son's room, not all this stuff, like cause I didn't have all this stuff back then. I just had a desk, my surface book, and I think I just had one monitor back then, but it was in my, my son's room. And then me and my wife, we had a daughter and it was like, Hey, we want to give these guys, you know, their rooms. So I moved all of this stuff over here when my, when my, when my daughter was old enough to, when she, cause she used to sleep with me and my wife when she got old enough to sleep in her sister's room or any room. And like we, they have rooms, but they just sleep anywhere they want. Sleep in the living room, wherever, right? But, but we moved all this stuff out of my son's room and then we set it up over here. And this room was set up completely different team. It was, I always dreamed about having it just like this, you know, having the exact setup you see was in my mind for like five, six years before I even did any of this stuff. So over here, I have a bookshelf and then there's shelves all along this wall. I'm not going to spend the camera and go through all that stuff, but there's just shelves and some of you guys will see them in my videos if you subscribe. But I got a lot of books. I got books on all different kinds of things. I got books on programming. I've got books on entrepreneurship, books on politics, books on finance, books on investing, books on money management, books on, I mean, all kinds of stuff. Like here, there's a book, 50 economic ideas. Like this is just like maybe like a philosophical book with some facts mixed in about the market and stuff like that. I've got a book over here. I Love Capitalism by Ken Langan. I haven't even read it, 12 Rules of Life from Jordan Peterson, Piketty's Capital. This is a thick book. I haven't read this one yet either. But my goal is to read more. I've read a lot of these books cover to cover. I read The Way of the Turtle cover to cover. And I don't have all these books on my website team. This one of the things that I'm working on right now is just putting all these books because to some of these books, I mean, they're just like, I'm mad. But then there's other books that have really had an impact on me like Principles by Ray Dalio, Money Master the Game by Tony Robbins. I don't believe in everything that's in Money Master the Game. But like I said, team, my goal is to just share the information, share my story. And you take that information with a grain of salt, do your own research and just... Some people, if you're religious, you can pray on it. If you're not, then you sit and you ponder. And the answers will come to you and tell you which moves you need to make, what direction you need to go to. And so up these two top monitors that you see right up here at the top, one of them off because ever so often when I start the computer, my video card doesn't turn on all the monitors for every reason. And I just have to reboot and then they all come up. But these two monitors are Dales. They're older monitors. The resolution is 1280 by... No, 1290 by 1080. I think that's the resolution. And no, 1920. I'm sorry, 1920 by 1080 is the resolution of these two monitors. And they look really good. I've had them for a long time. I bought them back in like 2013, maybe 2012, something like that. Sometime between 2012 and 2014, I bought these two Dales monitors. And they used to sit down here on my desk. And underneath those monitors, we got two... I don't even know the resolution. They're two 4K monitors by Samsung. And when I was building this computer, and I went to hook up these two monitors, I didn't have all of the cables and adapters I needed. And I went to the store and I was like, hey, I need this connector. And the guy who was working there, he was telling me about frame rates and all this stuff. And they had these two monitors. They're like 650 bucks a piece, but they were on sale for for $300. And so I bought two of them. And then once I set them up, I was going, hey, you know, it'd be cool if these other two monitors were working. Then I went out and I bought all the connectors and the adapters and I hooked them all up. And now they all work. That's why I have four monitors. But is it necessary? No, not really. I can do most... I do most of my work on one monitor anyway. Like when I'm recording the tutorials and stuff, it's all done on this monitor right here. But then on the other monitors, I can have stuff that I want to read. And I'll have like the streaming information or the recording information up here. I'll have like any sort of reference material that I need for a course that I'm doing or something like that. I'll have it over on this monitor or that monitor. And then just when I'm chilling and hanging out, my wife wants to watch something different in the living room or my kids want to watch something else or I'll just kick back in the chair and I'll just put a show up on one of these, on one of the top monitors and then I'll work on one of these other monitors. And there's going to be, there's links. I'll try to put links to all of this stuff in the description below in case anybody wants to pick up any of this stuff. But it's pretty standard stuff, team. It's just, I organized it in a different kind of way, I guess. And then we got these monitors and they're sitting on this desk we bought at Walmart when I was in the army, like years and years and years ago. And it's completely messed up. It's like a jacked up desk. I've thought about buying a new desk, but this one, this one just sort of works for me right now. Maybe one day I'll switch to a standing desk. I don't know. But right now it just works. It's the right height. And it is what it is. And what I did is at Lowell's, they have this vinyl and I learned about this from my wife and my daughter because my daughter has a desk in her room and it's completely painted and everything. And they put marble on it. And so I learned about this paper from my wife. And what I did is when I was switching up the room, I decided to make the desk top white. And so I covered it all in this vinyl. So that's why the top of the desk is white. And then we have these Bose speakers. These are just Bose. I don't even know what they call them, companion comfort or something. Like I said, there'll be links below. But these are just Bose speakers. They cost me like maybe like a hundred bucks, something like that. And what I did is I bought some blue masking tape, like painter's tape. And I just covered, I covered the front of them. And on both of them, I covered the knobs over here in the headphone jack. And then I just spray painted them white. And so that's that's how I got white speakers. I don't know. Maybe you can buy them white. I looked before I painted them and I couldn't find any. And so I just painted mines. And then on top of them, I have a right code drink coffee sticker that I made this when I was in school. And this, this is a, this is a good story because I had thought about making a sticker for like months and months and months. And then one day I, you know, something just told me, make the sticker, just make it. And so I knew illustrator and I just sat down and I just made this sticker. And then something said, like, like literally a voice was like, you know, have this sticker printed. And I went to the internet. I went to a site called sticker mule. And I had them make these stickers. And I got, you know, I think I got like 20 or 30 stickers at the time. And I gave, I stuck them all over everything. I put them, you know, I gave them away to people. I would leave stickers on buses and on trains just so people could find them and stuff like that. I've mailed stickers in the mail to people who've, who've contacted me on Twitter and stuff like that. And then now I have these stickers on my website, another website that I have out on the internet, right code drink coffee.com. If you go there, there's stickers, there's a mug. The mug's not in here right now, but there's a mug. There's, I got shirts and stuff there. I got the hats that I wear, like the hats that I wear when I'm, when I'm on YouTube, like this hat right now you can buy on the website, stuff like that team. Next to that, I have this surface dial and I don't even use it because it doesn't, it'll work with any computer, but it has very limited functionality. I mean, maybe you can program some more stuff into it. But right now, basically all it does is turn the volume up and down and maybe when I'm in Photoshop, if I remember, I'll use it to like zoom in and zoom out or something like that. But it's just, it's something, I thought it was cool when Microsoft came out with it. It was just another thing to buy and I had a bunch of money, so I bought it, but I've never really used the team to be honest. This is just, it's just there. Over here, I've got, there's a, you probably can barely see it, but I have this little stand. It's like, it looks like a little computer and inside of it is my Apple watch and typically it'll tell the time and it, so it looks like a little old, like a little old school computer because it'll have like this little green clock on there. Right now the watch isn't turning on for whatever reason. I don't know, oh, there it is. I don't know if you guys could see it, but it's just a little computer that holds my Apple watch. And again, the Apple watch, another thing that I bought that is not really necessary that I don't need. You have to charge it every day and I hardly ever wear it. And when I do wear it, all I ever do is tell time on it. I've never really used it for anything but to just tell time. There's, you can put apps on it, people do, but I've only used it to tell time really, team. And then here we got my keyboard. It's a Corsair. I can't remember the model number. It's just a white keyboard and again, the descriptions are in the links below and it has RGB lights on it. And I wanted everything to be white because I don't know, like it just makes me feel good. This room is like a light blue. And so every, so the white goes with the light blue very, very well. And when I come in here, I just feel relaxed. Right. It's a very calming place. And that's what I wanted to build. Like it wasn't, it was, I didn't always, it didn't always feel this way when I came in here because I had this vision in my head of what I wanted it to be. And then when I achieved that vision, that's when it was like, you know, it's, you know, it's a getaway for me. I come in here and I'm just in my own space and I can do my own thing. And when I have my desk all cleaned off, I can focus. And so on my, on my desk team, I've got the, I've got a Corsair mouse pad, RGB mouse pad. It just glows, not really necessary. Right. None of this stuff is necessary. It's just, it's nice to have. I mean, it looks cool. It makes me feel, you know, very excited when I'm at work and stuff like that. You know, and it looks cool in the videos, to be honest. Like if I'm shooting a video and I got all this stuff in the background, it looks cool. It gives, it gives me a little credibility, I guess. Maybe some people see it and they go, okay, all right, this guy must know what he's talking about. He's got all these books and all this stuff. But it's just cool, man. It's just stuff that makes me feel good. Behind, behind the mouse pad and the keyboard, I got this little rock. This is a cool story. It's a gold rock. And my son, he wanted to, he wanted money so he could buy little toy trains. And we, me and my wife, we've been working on, you know, and I, I'm the technology guy. So I'm the guy typically who brings in the money, like 99% of the time. And so when I decided to leave my job and go full time and like really, you know, turn this thing that the universe has been calling me to do into my actual living, you know, we have to cut back on spending and stuff like that. So my son, he wanted to buy some trains. And what he did was he came up with the idea to sell rocks. And he went out and he got some spray paint. He's got these rocks. He's an eight year old and he spray painted these rocks gold. And he started selling them and he still sells them. He's made about 200 bucks so far, just selling rocks. And I'm really proud of him because I believe that it was sort of my mindset in my belief system in all the things that I've done that showed him, Hey, man, if you want something, you can go get it. You don't have to wait for somebody else. And that's what he did, right? He went and got his money and he's made all this money and he has it. Like he's laying all over his room, like he's a drug dealer or something. He doesn't even spend it, right? He wanted this money to buy trains. He hasn't bought any trains with the money. He's bought a couple things. He's bought stuff for his, his sisters, which is super awesome. But yeah, he's just hanging on to his money. He's not really spending on anything. So I have that rock here, just because it's cool. I wasn't even his first customer, which is wild, man. He just, you know, it's a cool story. So I got that here, just because it's cool and my son made it. And I mean, it's a gold nugget, big old gold nugget on your desk. It just looks cool. And I look at it and it reminds me of that story. And it reminds me to just like, Hey, man, right? Like, you know, the world's a stage and you're the actor, just have some fun, right? Don't take every, don't take it too serious. And if you believe in yourself and you have faith, like you'll get to where you're going. And this sort of been like the story for me, you know, all the way up until me recording this video right now. So that's why I keep that rock there team. Right over here, I got the, I got a Blue Yeti, Blue Yeti microphone. I bought this microphone years ago, team. I bought this microphone about two or three years before I started actually make, sorry about that. The camera only records 20 minutes at a time. So, but when I first started making YouTube videos, I was just using my laptop. And so I wasn't even using this microphone. I tried to use it a couple of times. I didn't like the way it sounded. When I would, when I would type on the keyboard, it would vibrate the stand and all this stuff, not this stand here. And I'll talk more about this, but it would vibrate the stand that the mic came with. So I didn't even use it. But I bought it specifically to record, you know, I didn't even, I didn't even know what I wanted to record at the time team. But the universe had me, you know, go out and buy this microphone. And I had it, and I had it, and I had it. And then boom, like when the time came for me to make the move, I had every, I had everything I needed. I didn't have to go out and buy anything else. I had, I had all this stuff. And I accumulated all this stuff over time. Like I bought this mic before I had the monitors, I think. And then, you know, one monitor and two monitors. And then, you know, all this stuff, you just accumulate this stuff over time. And for me, it's wild. Like the experience is really gone. Like, you know, it doesn't happen all at once. It happens in little increments. And then one day, you're kind of, you're just, you're just there. And then, and then when you're there, you're able to go out and buy, you know, all this crazy extravagant stuff at once. But this is all extra stuff. Like nobody really needs all this stuff team. For the main, the main part of what I do is web development and coding and stuff like that. Now, you can do it on any on any old laptop, you can stream on any laptop to my most successful video. My most successful video on this channel to date was me just in front of my laptop using the laptop camera and the laptop microphone I was using. I think you I think it was a it might have been a surface. I think it was a Microsoft surface. But it may have been a MacBook to I'm not positive. But it was just a regular and it wasn't just a regular laptop team that I just want to convey that fact that I didn't use a I had a mic. I didn't use the mic. I had I had a webcam. I didn't use the webcam. I just use what was built into the computer. And that's my most popular video. And it's just me in front of the camera laying on my living room floor with my face to the screen recording. And, you know, that's that's how it went down to me. And then so we got the microphone here and it's on a road microphone arm. And it has so none of this stuff comes all together right the microphone came on a separate stand I had to buy this thing this thing is like 50 bucks. It's a pop filter. So when you talk your peas and your your there's another I don't know your pee. I don't know the other letter. But it's supposed to muffle that that that pee sound that like all the you know any pops or anything. And then this right here is a shock mount. So if I if I if I hit the desk or something like that the vibration doesn't reach the microphone the micro so the microphone is like in this little independent space and it's separated is held on with these rubber bands and the whole mechanism is designed to stop vibration from actually reaching the microphone and then getting into whatever you record team. So this is I mean this is cool but I had to buy that thing separate this that was like a hundred bucks and then you get the arm the arms like a you know I think maybe it's 50 bucks on Amazon right now and there's other arms that are cheaper. But the reason why I went with this one is because it was the one that everybody had reviewed and I followed this podcast entrepreneurial fire and I think he had this setup at one point. I'm not positive team. I think he had this setup at one point but I knew that this arm this was the arm that was able to hold this microphone. This microphone is pretty heavy. It's a heavy microphone and I'm not sure if a cheaper arm would do it. And so I didn't want to go out and spend you like 25 bucks or 30 bucks and then get get it and maybe it works a couple days and then the arm isn't strong enough to hold it and it just sort of droops down all the way until it's sitting on a desk or something. But this arm this setup has been like this for about two years right now and it holds the microphone just fine. So that's why I have the road arm and it's just attached to the side of the desk with the clamp. No big deal team. And then we get over here to this setup right here and there's a lot of cool stories behind this stuff. I got some bows right here. This is a Cortana voice thing and I bought it when I was working at Microsoft at the time and a lot of people believe that you know I like Microsoft because I was working there and sure why not. Yeah why not. I worked there in the building. I saw the logo every day. It was my dream right from 16 on like I never thought about like hey I want to go work you know on the Microsoft campus or something like that. But they have been using Windows 95 for years. I've read all of read Bill Gates book The Road Ahead and you know I was studying what Microsoft had done how they became a company. I've been studying you know all the computer companies Apple Microsoft Oracle stuff like this is just in me like it's just a part of who I am. And so I just I just I just like technology and Microsoft is kind of like the they consider like the big evil character and they put out some cool stuff they do some cool stuff. And mainly I like Bill Gates like he made a bunch of money sure of course but he's spending that money all around the world. Now his plan is to spend all his money and be broke when he dies or some craziness like that. And just and just have the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation live on. And I mean he's doing some cool stuff. They've like cured malaria or something like that. He has his apparatus this apparatus that he he's setting up in all these third world countries that turns that turns human excrement into electricity and clean drinking water is I mean it's just he's doing amazing stuff. And then Microsoft makes it like super easy for developers. They got Azure Visual Studio Visual Studio Code you know and all of the coding stuff you can use for free. There's free versions of it. Unfortunately you know free versions of Microsoft Office or anything like that. At least I don't think I don't know. But even still like if you go to school in your college if you're in college they'll give you you get access to all their stuff a lot of universities pay so their students get free Microsoft Office and all the all the all the Microsoft software is free. When I was in school everything that Microsoft made I got for free right all of their compile anything really anything anything that they made was was essentially free for me team. So I thought that was super cool. But of course the university is the school or whoever they're paying for that stuff you know. But I just this is like Microsoft and it's a little different it looks cool it's like an art piece. It just sits there and it works. Cortana I can say hey Cortana she's unplugged now because sometimes like when I say her name she just starts talking. And as you can see like I'm talking about Cortana like she's a real person like we hang out on the weekends or something. And we do we hang out every weekend she lives with me all the time. But we also have we have Google Google voice pod things all around the house. There's one in my son's room one in my daughter's room there's one in the kitchen. My wife uses it to cook and to set timers and stuff. My kids ask questions. So they want to know some my son's really into president. So whenever he has a question about the president he's like hey Google you know when was Ulysses S. Grant born and when you know did he become president or what was his policies and it's like eight year old kid. So it's super cool to have all this stuff around the house. And I just have Cortana in here and she makes a fantastic headphone stand. And on top of on top of Cortana are my my great my my grandfather-in-law's Bose studio headphones. And the reason I have them is because he passed away you know just recently. And I mean you know over the past year my life has been crazy. I got fired right when I'm unemployed. I'm trying to find clients trying to start a business. I'm struggling at it. And then my my father my grandfather-in-law dies. And you know I he's one of a very important person in my life. Very very important person in my life. So you know I got his headphones. You know I was going to go out and buy some headphones. And then I think my wife she came home with these headphones. She said hey these were grandpa's headphones. So I cherish them. They are another prize possession of mine. So all this other stuff could go away. If I got my sign and I got my headphones I can start all over again. I know that team. So and then next next to those are some Plantronics headphones. And I got those when I was working at Microsoft. And there was a there was a woman who worked there. And and yeah I'm just nice to everybody. And she was the supply person. And you know we would have to go through her to get all of our to get all of our stuff. And and I mean just super super nice. And I had these headphones I was using for work. And they were crappy. They were very cheap. And I was going to go buy some headphones. And I saw her one day. And because I was working with other engineers in the building. And they all had these same kind of headphones. So I went to her and said hey I see all these engineers with these headphones. And I got these really crappy headphones that I got from my company. I'm here. I'm doing the same thing as all these other guys. May I have some headphones. She said sure right. And she you know she signed me out some headphones. And I got I got my headphones. So that's why I got two sets of headphones here. They the Plantronics sound really good. They're not over the ear headphones. But they're wireless. I think the wireless headphones are better for recording and stuff like that. But I have those there. And when I when I get a phone call or something and I want to go outside I can just grab those and put them on. And they pair to multiple devices so they're paired to both my phones. And so no matter what phone I'm on if I just turn them on and put them on and they'll automatically connect to my phone and I can instantly go outside and take a phone call. They sound really good. They got noise canceling stuff like that team. And then all of this stuff is sitting on top of my actual computer. This is an NZXT case. I can't remember the model number of it. But the first time I saw this case I fell in love because of this white bar in here. And I thought that was super cool. And I bought the case. I bought this case and I had this case for a year sitting on this shelf. There was all the books were over somewhere else. And it was just sitting there. So every time I came in here I would see this empty case and I would tell myself hey I'm going to build this case. I'm going to build this case. I'm going to build this case. And another reason why I got you know I just like the white. I think the white is very clean. There's a show I watch called Billions and the protagonist though the main character. He is if they're the same thing if I'm wrong somebody correct me. But he's like his whole office is white. Right. And so and I just I just like the I like the white feel of things. I don't like to wear white clothes but a white room a well decorated white room makes me just feel so empowered and excited and in confident and stuff like that. So I really love this case. And then inside of this case I just put a little plant to be different. I had I had grass in there like there was grass inside of this inside of this case. But I took out a piece but I had I just I keep that plant in there just adds a little pizzazz to the case. Then of course I got all the RGB lights and stuff. And the setup that I have going on for this computer team is I've got a it's a it's a Ryzen. I think it's a seven. I think that's the model number Ryzen seven is got eight cores on it. And it's a pretty it's a fast computer. Right. I've never I've never been using all eight cores at the same time at least as far as I know. And that's of course the processor is the most important thing over here you see these four RGB lights. That's my RAM. It's 64 gigs of I think 3200 DDR DDR RAM. And the pair it set up really good. I've never maxed out the you know the 64 gigs but it allows me to do a bunch of stuff at the same time. I can I can be I can be editing editing a movie writing code. I can be rendering a movie writing code and watching something on Netflix all at the same time. And then that's just like I don't know. Like I'll look at the monitor and it'll not the monitor but the the performance monitor the machine and it'll be like hey man you're you know you're you're using you know 100 percent of your processor or something like that. And it's like I can still go more but I'll only be using like you know a quarter of my RAM or something like that. And I've done 3D rendering on here. Like you name it I've been able to do it but again you don't need all that stuff. You start small and you just build up. That's why in the code 365 startup lab I just focus on the core fundamentals. If I had I feel that if I had a focus on that stuff like right when I got out of the army focus on the core fundamentals and then focused on building things as I learned stuff to you know build a website that looks like Louis Vuitton build a website that looks like Mercedes Benz build a website that looks like you know Black Rock Capital build a website and just building that stuff and then really focusing on SEOing those things and repurposing them for my local market that I would be light years ahead of the game team. I would have been able to sell these websites off to businesses or sell them leads or do whatever and that's what I do now. But anyway that's that team underneath that I've got the I got a GeForce RTX 2060 video card it's got four ports on the back I think two of them are HDMI ports and then the other two are something else. I wanted to have two of these cards like that was my dream at one point get two of these cards but one card has been more than enough for me. I'm able to get all four monitors on it. I don't believe I could add more monitors like if I add another card I could add four more monitors but I don't even know what I would do with them team this has just been more than enough for me right now and I'm super happy with this whole setup and like how everything is just pieced together. Down next to that I have a little USB port for extra USB ports so I got a bunch of stuff plugged in there and you can't see them like really because they're behind this chair so in this chair I bought off of Amazon it's like a $50 chair but it's really nice it's white the back of it is white it's called a habada. Habada is the company that makes the chair and then if you spin it around it's got this this footrest that comes out I rarely ever use it though but it's there it's cool it comes in handy from time to time but it's not it's not like a regular thing that I use every day maybe I'll use it you know I'll be working all day and I'll forget to eat and so I'll grab some food and then I'll come in here and I'll put out the rest and I'll kick my feet up and I'll recline and I'll just sit there and eat my bowl of cereal or noodles or something like that in my chair and you know watch something on Netflix so like I said like all this stuff is just set up to make me productive and make me feel good about myself and who I am and you know what I'm doing and what I'm trying to accomplish and it calms me down I've got some issues from my time in the military and all this stuff just sort of you know just calms me down so I spend a lot of time a lot of time in here team and this this whole computer setup is sitting on top of just the little shelf that I got over at at Target I put it together and it's kind of sort of organized not you know I've got over here I've got my my any I've got notebook paper and this is like high quality notebook paper I don't really not notebook paper but printer paper I've only had to print a few things from it and I had I originally set this whole thing up for running my business and then when I went out and I started to get clients I found myself trying to convince people of stuff a lot and that's not I spent two years doing that when I was selling cars right people coming to buy a car and you're trying to sell them a car and me personally I spent a lot of time trying to inform people you know sometimes to my detriment but I did I did I did well in car sales I made I made good money not as much as I could have made but I definitely made more than my peers so I'm happy I'm happy in that sense team but I set this all up for that but it's sort of it's worked out for me I've got three hard drives down here uh I think they're each two terabytes and this is where I store all of the the the raw files and footage from all of the videos that that you see on YouTube and one of them two of them are almost full and then one's like almost completely empty or something like that and if we bounce back up here into this machine in this machine I've got I've got a I've got a solid state SSD in the back you can't see it I think it's a terabyte of space and then in the front I have two uh M M dot two uh one terabyte SSD cards and one it houses the main operating system and then the one in the back is just extra space um I think I think I at one point I had like two versions of Linux installed on it through Microsoft's uh subsystem for Linux and then on this front one there's um it's my D drive I call it the staging area and that's where I store stuff that I'm working on because it's a super fast drive until I want to archive it down in one of these other drives and there's like no real like they're kind of organized but there's like no real super workflow that goes along with that team I just know like I start a project on my desktop or in a special folder on my computer somewhere and then I'll work on it and if I want to like typically I'm working with a lot of video so I'll put it on the D drive maybe right if I need space on my C drive I'll put it on the D drive and then I'll just it'll it'll sit there and I'll work on it out of there and when the project's complete I'll take it and I'll archive it if it's code if I'm working on something with code then I'll I'll push it up to github and I have yeah I pay for a github plan so I've got my public repose in there I got private repose for like clients or maybe anything else that I'm working on stuff that I don't want people to see um or I don't want them to see yet or just things that I want and there's like you know the public eye but the code ends up on github so whenever I need anything I can just go up to github do a quick search and clone that down and I'm good to go but all the videos and stuff they stay here and I would I would put those in the cloud too it would just it just it would take so long to redownload anything if I needed it but to be honest there's a lot of stuff here that I've recorded over the years that I will probably never look at again right you know um and then I've got like these bins and each of these bins has some you know just knickknacks in them I've got a couple rulers uh these are like uh architectural drafting rulers with different measurements on them in case I want to draw something and sketch something out I don't use them at all right but they're there when I need them and then I've got I've got some more solid state drives like this 120 gig there's another one in here um just you know different knickknacks and stuff that I might need here I have and all the all the bins are like that like this one's empty all that it has so when I was when I was going out and I was doing client proposals I had these things and so I will print out my proposal put it in one of these folders and slide these things on looks look super professional but um definitely not necessary you don't need all this stuff team this is stuff that like you you see people in videos and stuff talk about and we could get into that at some other point uh down here I've got I've got some uh some envelopes they're like they're pre they're pre posted envelopes so all that so whenever I need to mail something I just write down the address to where it's going to go I put it inside and I drop this in the mailbox I don't have to put any stamps on them I bought these I bought these a while back and this is what I use to mail stickers like somebody buys you know a couple stickers boom I'll just drop them in here throw our address on there throw it in the mailbox and then in a in like three to four days they'll have their stickers team and you can get those over at uh write code drinkcoffee.com uh I got a I got another webcam next to that and I'm going to be using this webcam and another project that I'm working on I got a mac mini that's been just sitting in my closet doing nothing for a long time so I'm going to use the mac mini in this webcam for a special project I don't even know if I'm going to talk about it on this channel to be honest I want to build it and see if it works and then maybe I'll tell you guys about it uh and then next to that so on top of my paper I've got a couple notebooks I have notebooks everywhere I've been a notebook fan for you know my entire life just something about paper and writing on paper just makes me feel good and it's always been that way and so I have all these notebooks but none of them are full like I've never like filled up a notebook I'm like oh I got to get to another notebook again I just like notebooks I just got this fetish notebooks I bought this planner because it looks super cool it says you're you are a badass I put the right code drink coffee sticker on here um you're supposed to plan all your days in here and I bought it in August but I used it for two days and I haven't used it since but typically right now my my I know what I'm going to do every day I know exactly my schedule is the same right you know I wake up um and then I'll I'll work on some tutorials make a youtube video youtube video goes to youtube tutorials go over to my teacher again it cut off gives me about 20 minutes of recording time but the um the courses go on to teachable and uh and that's it right and and I can stop working anytime I want I'm typically working a lot because I'm trying to grow a business I'm trying to grow a youtube channel grow a business grow a subscriber base um and then just put as much content out there as I can so if anybody does come along and they need like consulting or stuff like that then you know they I can show them all hey I got this over here I got this over there this is what I do but I pretty much make my own schedule team and um and so like this is this is cool but it's not it's not really necessary I have come to realize that uh if it's important you'll just do it and in me I have to get to a point where the person I wanted to be and the things I want to do and the way I want to live had to become more important than everything else so that's what my I focus on where I'm going and that dictates to me the actions I need to take so um if I'm always thinking about you know this lifestyle that I want when it comes time to like watch Netflix or something in the back of my mind it's like hey you could be working on this other thing or you could be doing Netflix so this I haven't really had a need to write stuff down now what's what's amazing is when I was writing stuff down I was probably less productive than I am now and I was writing stuff down because those are tasks that come from other people so when you're in a job you know you got meetings so you put that stuff in there you got you know things to do for your boss you put those in there um but when it comes at least my experience when it when it's come to to me doing things for myself and for my family this hasn't been it's cool it looks cool right it may help some people um and then you know to be honest I've kept I've kept journals and task managers and to do this my entire time throughout the army so it may be that just at some point that I got really used to doing it and and my brain just reorganized itself and I don't need this stuff anymore like it's just in my not like I don't recommend you try to store anything your head if you got an idea you definitely positively need to write it down if you have a dream or you know a aha moment you got to write that down team but for my day to day doing stuff like this hasn't been you know like I say I don't use it that much if I can have an appointment or something I'll just tell Siri I'll say hey Siri schedule an appointment for this day at this time and it goes into my phone and I don't even have to think about it anymore like see I cancel okay I won't create the event so and then when the date and the time comes she'll tell me into beyond like I don't even use that my wife has probably been like my biggest reminder of things but her life is more busier than mine like she she's with my daughters and she takes them to dance um she keeps track of everything like there's just that like she's organized like that like she has a she has a notebook she's a notebook person too but she uses her notebooks in a very methodical way and she has lists to do lists cleaning lists shopping lists lists like she just makes lists but it works because all the bills are always paid on time because she has the list and when she at when she when she's like hey you know I need money to pay this bill like hey what are you gonna do like hey we need to bring in some money I can say hey send me this list and she'll she'll take a picture of her list and she'll send it to me and then like now she has it on her phone so she just sends me in a text message and I'm like okay we need you know money for this and I can go to the brokerage counter I can you know go out and try to drum up some business to do like some quick client work or something like you know stuff like that team but that's notebooks I've always had notebooks so always keep a notebook and also I have I have this um I have this graph paper that I use for for just like writing stuff down like super quick I got this clipboard from the last job I worked at and I got the idea for the graph paper when I was working at Microsoft right so all the developers and engineers right whenever you needed to do something there was a room where you could go that has a white board and or that you could just go grab a pad they had all the pens and stuff you needed so I thought that that was cool so I just keep these you know I keep this right behind my desk and then I've got a bunch over here and whenever I need to write something down I just I know where I need to go to grab it and that's that's pretty much that team here I got a couple juggling balls I've been learning to juggle I don't know what the third ball is though it's probably under my bed or something and I'm no good I can only I can only get all three balls in the air and juggle them like like that for about six times and they're all over the floor but that's a good stress reliever whenever I'm sitting here and I get like you know inside of my head and maybe I start to worry I feel anxious or something like that or you know my you know or I need to take a break or something like that I'll just grab the balls and I'll stand up and I'll juggle but I don't I don't I don't spend a lot of time in here juggling but my wife recommended those and they're my favorite my favorite one of my favorite well two of my favorite colors black and orange they look really good together and so they make a good decoration too and they have a little story behind them when people ask hey what are those are those stress balls and because they're like they're like little bean bags and um so yeah team I've got a mug there that my daughter gave me best dad ever um and then next to that I got a salt lamp that my wife gave me this salt lamp you go buy one at Walmart and it's actually it actually tastes like salt like I I don't lick it on a regular basis but I've licked it a couple times this is a real salt but that's cool the bulb in there is gone out so I don't turn it on maybe I replace that and turn it on but again like all this stuff is is here because it makes me feel good that's pretty much it team and if we move over here you can't you can't really see them but I got a couple pictures and if you watch like some of my tutorials like we're in the 365 startup lab you can see them behind me up top on the top I have Seattle and on the bottom I have Chicago and for me like I came from Chicago but now like Seattle's the closest biggest city I mean I'm probably could find one of Tacoma or something like that but Washington is known for Seattle and Illinois is Illinois is known for known for Chicago and to me this is a big thing because in Chicago I got to experience a lot of cool stuff my parents were cool but I did grow up on a south side and I never thought in a million years that and people say that I never thought in a million years you know I I I never considered the fact that it was possible for me to go from Chicago all the way to living in Anchorage, Alaska and then living in Washington and like Seattle's right there and at one point I was in Seattle every day like when I go to work I'd have to go to Seattle um and so I started from the bottom and now I'm here team that's that's what this that's what this represents to me and this decoration I like to surround myself with stuff like that and it makes it's you know it's cool stuff background when I'm recording videos and stuff like that so that's why I have these here I got a couple cars here for my friend and one of my closest friends and life is life is a trip you know I met him when I was in the army in like 2003 2004 and and when we moved when me and my wife moved into this house and and my my father-in-law bought the house and then he moved out and moved somewhere else and then and then we moved in and he's become our landlord essentially so we pay our rent to my father-in-law um but we moved in here and my friend Eddie you know he lives like right down the road and I didn't I didn't even know I hadn't seen him in like probably like because he got out of the army and I was deploying I was still in the army doing all this stuff and um and he uh and I moved in and he lived right down the street go figure it and he collects these hot wheels cars and he gives them out as gifts to people and I was in his house one day and I was like hey man what are you doing up do what are you doing I was it was his home office I had never been in there I had been to his house you know probably a handful of times maybe maybe you know a dozen times or something like that and we always hang out in the living room or the kitchen or the backyard and I had never been in his home office and I go in his home office he got this it's like a rack it looks like a Walmart store and he's got like hundreds of cars on this thing and I said dude man that's like super cool he goes hey take some cars and said all right so I took a um I got a Ford Focus RS and this I don't drive a RS I drive a Ford Focus ST but I got like the top of the line it's got like all the fancy bells and whistles in it the heated seats and all kinds of stuff team but the RS is essentially I don't even know if you could buy a base model RS I tried to I wanted to trade my ST in for RS but you can't you can't buy them anymore like Ford doesn't sell them in America but um but the from what I could tell all of my research and everything the cars are exactly the same the only difference is the RS has it has more horsepower about 50 more horsepower and it has it's all wheel drive and so it needs them it needs the extra horsepower because it has the extra components for the other wheels but um but this looks my car is blank but this is essentially the same car so I thought that was cool that he had one of those and then you know everybody likes exotic cars me I'm more of a Ferrari type of person um well at least that's the way it was when I was a kid and now I've progressed to like the Maserades and stuff like that but um but you know the Lamborghini is like something that um that that a lot of people aspire to and I would like to you know buy a Lamborghini one day so I got that here and these are just like little cool knickknacks and reminders of what I'm working towards and why I'm out here you know doing what I do why I make these kinds of videos just hey so you could get here and I understand that the only way for me to get there is to help other people um and mainly help other people using my my unique gift I've tried to use other people's gifts I've tried to be in sales I've tried to be in contracting I've tried to be in IT I've tried to be like do all these but none of those things were my thing team like this is you know being able to sit down and record a video um or get on stage and talk to people and connect with them and inspire them and motivate them that's what that's been my thing team so you know at one point I figured I had to just you know take a leap uh and and I learned that from Steve Harvey his story is super cool maybe I'll talk about that new video in a different video let me know in the notes below and you know we can I can you know talk about my philosophy on Steve Harvey and all that stuff I've got this Mace Windu here I got this from McDonald's like in 2000 and I don't know when team it was like 2004 2005 like way back when I first came to to uh to Washington so I've had this a little Mace Windu action figure for nearly 20 years it's probably like 16 17 years now and uh he's been with me through a lot of stuff like he I used to have him sit on my dashboard and because I was driving to and from work every day so he would like come you know with me and then the moment that I stopped driving like that I didn't have to drive to work I took him out of the car and I put him in here right and he sits there as a reminder of like hey I'm with you everywhere you go I'm looking over your shoulder um and you can do this man like you just gotta this is it right so I he's he's right there looking over my shoulder um and then my son he's really into um Five Nights at Freddy's and so I've got this little Five Nights at Freddy's bear here so just little things to remind me of you know of of it to remind me that that you know this is what being here on earth is about right and I know some people are in in horrible situations and uh you know the the the best I could do is is be the best person I can be and try to and try to inspire as many people as possible and maybe one of those people if not myself will will do something to that that actually helps those people out of that situation team and maybe somebody will see that and they'll come here and they'll go man like this guy right like I'm on the south side of Chicago my life is crappy I was in a shootout yesterday and I turned on the news and nobody's talking about that right there was a mass shooting at my school and nobody's talking about that they're talking about this other stuff right nobody ever talks about there's people out there and they feel like like they're left behind right and I and I don't know how to I've come so far that I feel like sometimes I don't know how to connect with those people but maybe if I share the things that I've been through in my philosophy um then you know who knows who knows so that's that's my whole thing that's why I'm recording this video somebody asks about this stuff and I want people to know the truth like it's you know this this stuff that I have here right I didn't even buy it all in cash like it's on it's on a credit card like a discover card or an American Express or something but I did it because it likes a fire under me like I have to make this this work and so far so good team you know um but again I don't recommend anybody do that like your story is your story your journey is your journey you just you got to pick your path and you got to get on it right and and and you just got to make sure it's your path if you're waking up every day and you don't like what you're doing like you got to stop that team because it's going to lead to all kinds of other bad stuff it's going to lead to cancer and drug addiction all kinds of stuff um and so get to know yourself get to know your thing and then just go and just you know figure it out um and I skip some things over here I just want to talk a little more about like I've got the RGB fans in here um I've got two up front I've got two up top and I've got one here and these two fans here they're actually pull air up through a radiator and that's what cools the um the the it's a liquid cooling system so the the fans they pull they pull air through the radiator and then the liquid circulates through the radiator and cools off and then it goes down and it cools the processor heats up the processor heats up that cool liquid and then it's pumped back up into the radiator and then these fans right it goes to the the cooling process so this is a liquid cooled loop of you know for the processor necessary probably not the processor came with the humongous uh a humongous fan in a heat sink on it and the heat sink is just these little fins that come off the processor to disseminate the heat and then the fan is used to like pull that heat away from the processor and also suck more air into the heat sink in order to cool the processor and just keep the whole system cool and actually the fan that came with the processor it has a little rgb ring on it I don't even use I'm looking at it right now I'm looking at the box it's right there on the floor um so again all this stuff isn't necessary I saw other people with these setups but you know I figure like if I'm gonna do it I might as well do it like because this is me me a spirituality technology computer science I'm searching for something I don't know what it is but what you see here is the vision that you know from the first time I saw a computer up into the first time I could buy my first computer like all this stuff is the vision that I had in my head team I'm just I'm just letting you guys know it took me a long time to make this thing a reality it could have been a reality sooner but I was off doing other things I was off on a on a spiritual mental and physical voyage through the united states army that has turned me into I guess the person I am today team um but that's I was off on that kind of mission here I got a white board and this white board is super cool it doesn't come in this exact form so I'm going to break it down for you in case you guys want to build your own or do something with this I bought I was going to work one day I was working at Microsoft I was working in this office and there was a software development team contracted we were all contracted and they were contracted to do some stuff like T-Mobile or something and I got to talk into like the scrum master or whatever they call those those guys he like managed the whole project and every day he would have meetings and organize like the workflow and all this stuff and I was talking to him and and so I got to know him just a little bit and then one day I came and they had these white boards everywhere I'm gonna where these white boards come from and I was looking at them and I said dude these are cool and this is like a small enough whiteboard I could put this in my house and move it around so I uh I looked for the name on it I don't know if this thing has a name on it but I went Amazon and I just looked around for you know a whiteboard like the one that they had and when I got it it had this little ring on the bottom and you like pull this ring and then you could spin the board like this but the ring was was crappy it didn't work the way I wanted it to so I went to um to Home Depot and I got these clamps and I put I got some gorilla tape and so you see these black things around the board and so where the gorilla tape is is it keeps the clamp from spinning so what I can do is I can I can set the board to where I want it to be and then I can just grab one of these and I can clamp it in place and then it doesn't spin and I have two of these so I have one over here and I have and so I can put these clamps anywhere I can put one up here and then I could put one down here and it'll hold the board and keep it from spinning and then of course every whiteboard needs you know dry erase markers and the dry there's only the board spins but there's only one place to put the markers in my daughter I have little kids she'll come in and she'll grab the markers and be like before you know it she's like drawn all over everything the couch is covered in marker that you know everything is just covered and so I took um this right here is just a toilet paper roll old toilet paper roll and I taped it up here and I just I just put some dry erase markers in there and I have another one up top to hold some more and whenever I have an idea or I want to remember something like if you look on it now this is for uh for a video that I was going to do about the actual programming and data structures and so I just write all this stuff down or if I have an idea I'll just come here write it down real quick or something I need to do I'll write it down or maybe like you know this motivational quote a reminder you know my wife asked me to do something like I'll just throw it on the whiteboard real quick and then it's cool that it has two sides I try to keep one side clean or at least with stuff that's like not important like there's nothing like super important up here now I got some stuff with some with some scheduling things um but that's not important so what I can do is when I have an idea for something I'll just erase all of this and I'll just go and I'll just write and I'll draw lines and I'll draw connections and all this stuff and that's how I piece together a lot of these ideas that people hear me talk about like when I do the morning show on my youtube channel and the live feed like these ideas are just pouring out at me and it's all stuff that I've experienced and that I've done before um but some of that stuff um was actually synthesized on this board and I'll just write stuff down that I don't understand and then I'll you know and now I'm trying to explain it to myself in a way that I understand our race and our right again um but yeah this is a cool tool I have but you don't need it right I don't use it I don't use it every day maybe once a week you know maybe a couple times a week or something like that it's not this it's not something that I have to have to to do anything or make anything happen but it's cool to have here um because it reminds me of what this whole space is for also like hey team this is a space you're an artist you're a creator you're a producer um you're a motivator you're a speaker right and when you're in this space like your mind needs to be like that and that is that's me um and it's who I am is a person and as a as an individual so when I this is like my layer like you every criminal has a layer every uh hero has a layer of someplace they go to for me this is it and always in my mind looking at all of this stuff every day always in my mind is the next level where's the next level I want to take this right go from this space here to a big room and then to maybe a whole building and then to maybe you know a whole compound or something like that and not necessarily like the whole compound is all white full of computers and stuff stuff like that but being able to expand you know my space you know to to to be most comfortable for me and my family and then my friends that that I want to come that I want to spend time with the people that I meet that I encounter um not not to not to show off or anything like that team but to just you know to be to be surrounded by like-minded people um where we can exchange ideas right and so that's that's I created that I created this space for that as well I do it via YouTube on a near daily basis now and um I was all right team the uh the battery died so I had to switch that out but that's that's pretty much all of this stuff team but before before I get off I know a lot of people they're gonna come and they're gonna see this video and they're watching it just for to see you know another cool setup right that's that's that's that's the deal right and you know I titled the video like I do and I get the thumbnail and all that stuff another cool setup for people to watch but um but if you're still watching to this point I just want to convey a message to you like maybe somebody's watching this video and they're like cool man I want this stuff right here team you know and I'm telling you like this stuff is just stuff there's a lot of people out here who go to work and they're doing jobs they hate for people that they don't like so they can make some money so they can buy stuff like this and if you're in that situation you'll get the stuff and it'll make you feel good for a little bit but eventually it just becomes another thing in your life um and for some people it becomes a burden you know like there's credit card debt associated with this stuff like I gotta pay a credit card bill every month um it takes up space in my room all right I mean whatever it is you have to move and then you gotta move all of this stuff um there's this a lot of stuff associated with it so I try to tell people like it's cool if you can afford it like if you want it like it's a goal like go out do what you gotta do and get it team but there's more important things to life um and and when I say that I'm not talking we're I believe we're all here for a reason and again if you're still watching this video maybe maybe this is the universe calling you the universe telling you like hey man I just don't want to be like everybody else out here who shows you like this glitzy glamorous stuff and and you know you're you're out here working for it and and you're not able to get it you're struggling like you know like it just seems like nothing goes your way everything just sort of falls apart my experience has been to him that things fall apart so they can they can fall together like there's something in your life that goes bad because the universe is telling you like hey maybe this isn't where you're supposed to be this is what you're supposed to be doing and we we as human beings we're small this is a very big planet it's a very big universe there's a bunch of stuff going on that we don't really understand and there's people who spent their entire life studying it right but uh you Mahatma not Mahatma Gandhi the Buddha uh and a whole bunch of other gurus and spiritual leaders and all this stuff um and just through me studying all this stuff for pretty much my whole life I've realized that everybody pretty much they're saying the same thing at the end of the day like figure out figure out who you are and what your thing is and go do that thing and everything else will come if you're a good person and you treat people with respect and and you treat people like you want to be treated you treat you treat you know that's pretty much it just treat other people like you want to be treated and have a good have a good heart and and make it make an effort to just bring other people value in some kind of way um even if it's just a smile like some people they just they can't even smile like you just give somebody a smile that may change their day you don't know somebody may be on their way to jump off a bridge and then and then you pass them by and you smile and you say good morning good morning good morning right like you know it maybe sometimes you see somebody who has a bad look on her face hey good morning right it looks like it looks like you're going through it man I feel you know it it'll be better because you can make it better they might not jump off the bridge not only that they might not jump off the bridge they may go run for city council and then mayor and then become the president of the United States and then change the the whole world they may go start a company in 20 years from now right they make a product that completely changes your life or it helps you in a bind when you needed it most I mean who knows right I mean the the world the universe is this crazy place this crazy place maybe maybe somebody is going to like commit suicide and and you and you're nice to them in in 10 years down the road your house is on fire and they're the firefighter that puts out the fire and if you never had a smile your house would have burned to the ground team so I just tell I like to tell people um that it's going to get tough like life is tough my life has been tough your life has been tough everybody's life has been tough but anybody can have all this is just stuff is stuff is stuff but it's stuff that came from people who are doing things that they love right there's no way you sit down and you figure I had to make a computer monitor if you don't have some sort of passion for it you can't no matter how much money somebody pays you like you have to have something inside of you to do it I can't make a computer monitor I if I had to maybe I would but I don't have to like somebody else has done it and they've done it because somebody along their life inspired them and motivated them to go off and be whatever it is they were meant to be team and so like if you if you go if you figure out who you are and what it is you want to be and you set your sights on that thing and getting to where you want to be and you're nice to the people around you and and and and you just operate in this world from a place of gratitude and a grace of but in a place of hopefulness and faith and in hard work and effort people will go out and they don't even know you and they will build the world that you want to live in I don't know the guy that made this sign I don't know the people that made this desk or this keyboard or these speakers this monitor none of this stuff I don't know any of these people I don't know the people that built this house but apparently they did it all for me team I'm your biggest fan the real Cassadero this is my office that's my philosophy on life this is my desk setup I hope it inspires you I hope it motivates you if the lighting sucks so what who cares um thanks for hanging out with me here team um and go out there and be great if you like the channel you know subscribe all right that'd be super cool I'm trying to get to 10,000 before the end of this year team let's do it we're gonna get out here we're gonna get after it um I want to keep continue sharing stuff like this I'm gonna continue sharing my progression but most important is I want you guys to share your progression just come back to the channel wherever soft and watch a video leave a comment join the code 365 startup lab get in the discord channel right I'm gonna see people grow because like I said before I know if I can inspire motivate people help them become the people that they that they want to be they'll build the world that I want to live in team and they'll build the world you want to live in too anything you want somebody else has got it it's it's either it's either money in their pocket or or or or their work or their network of people or or or or an idea we just don't know we just don't know team I'm your biggest fan of real Casadero I'll see you guys in the next video