 Health wealth love and happiness. What's up team in this vlog? We're gonna be talking about what I believe is the biggest mistake that I made in 2018 So let's get to a team. All right team. It is your biggest fan the real Casadero here. I don't some of you I don't know you I never met you. Maybe we're meeting for the first time But I tell you this as less brown would say you have greatness within you That's what these videos are all about. It's about us helping each other out Helping each other get to the places that we are trying to get to and do the things we want to do and ultimately live the lives We want to live. I figured that I would talk about what I believe is the biggest mistake that I made in 2018 And I've had this conversation with a few friends But I haven't shared it here on youtube at least not in this kind of way at least in in in giving you guys My philosophy there are four pillars in in in life They're the they're they're the four pillars to the good life and I learned this from Tai Lopez Who learned it from someone else who learned it from someone else? He reads a book a day So who knows where this information really came from but I got it from Tai Lopez in today's modern world Right if you're in a world where you're watching this video Then there's four things that will guarantee you the good life and that is making sure you take care of your health Your wealth your love and your happiness and the love is the relationships The wealth is the income the money you need to do the things you want to do buy the things You want to buy live where you want to live eat the kind of foods that you need to eat Have the gym memberships you need to have and those things tie into health and happiness so health is is eating good food and and then you have love which is Which is having this close network of friends and family that you can depend on that you can rely on people who come to you For advice and they look up to you and people you can mentor and and stuff like that We put all these things together health wealth and love they all lead to happiness And when we're happy we're able to provide These things the health wealth and love with the With with the the nurture and the nutrients that they need in order to grow and to thrive So in 2018 what I did is I is is a few years ago And this is probably a big mistake that I made in 2017 too and in 2016 as well I had gone through the military. I got out. I went to school. I had a great time there I went into car sales. I had an okay time there. It was good in the beginning It was kind of bad in the middle. Then it got good near the end And then I got the the dream job the job of a lifetime my 16 year old self would have been like, whoa This guy is the guy I want to become. I was there. I was doing it But what I did is I left myself to the mercy of the marketplace Which means I put myself when it was in a position where I was an employee when they didn't need me anymore They didn't need me anymore. And that's completely understandable Every business has to operate this way in order to be able to provide People like me and like you and like everyone around us with opportunities to To to learn and to grow and to earn and to and to live and to do the things they want to do Some some jobs are better than others. I got it some pay more than others I got it those that's all up to the market the market determines How much of a job is worth when I say I put myself at the mercy of the market is I didn't Plan on leaving the job before the job left me what I should have been doing from the day I was hired at every job that I've had since I've left the military And even while I was in the middle military, I should have been looking for the next Job or the or how to start the the the next business or how to or not even going that far how to create An income stream where I don't have to depend completely on this paycheck or this business that I'm planning on starting How to create an income stream maybe two three hundred dollars a month or something like that I had these things going I sold the hats for a little while the hats are coming back the hats are coming back I believe I have a supplier that makes a good quality hat This is not the quality of hat that I like it's a okay hat But I like high quality all my other hats are high quality I believe I have a supplier that can that can provide some high quality hats So the hats are coming back. I had the sticker business I was generating a few bucks a month so things were okay And then I had a job that was paying me great money and that that was good and I got kind of lazy I stopped building stuff I I had ideas and I was putting these ideas into the spark file But I wasn't working on any of them I was really just going to work and doing tutorials so I could learn more about how to do stuff at work So maybe that was a part of my plan like to really level up my skills at working to move to the next level On the next level but even still I would be placing myself at the mercy of the the marketplace and at the mercy of the employer So what what I should have been doing I should have I should have taken a three pronged approach to it I should have 10xed everything I was doing like Grant Cardone says and I should have been Looking for other jobs put my resume out there looking for other jobs seeing what those what those companies are looking for Then in my off time for my day job Studying those things for the next job. So I'm working here. I'm studying for this job here And and I'm applying the things that I'm learning over here to the job that I'm doing here So if I don't get promoted another opportunity may come along where I can do this job Then in addition to that I should have been out prospecting or or or just or telling as many people as I can Like hey, I do websites. I do web design. I do web development. I do app development And again at the same time while I'm working here. I'm I'm I'm applying for jobs. I'm seeing what other people are looking for I'm I'm learning these these things that employers are looking for and I'm finding clients and I'm doing jobs on the side and actually building stuff and There's a whole another prong we can build something for ourselves We can take one of the hundreds of ideas that we have in the spark file and we can start building that thing So now our time is completely booked But it is completely based on and focused towards where we want to be in the future Health wealth love and happiness. We want to have those things and all of that Would have what would would have would have focused me on where it is I was trying to get to so I will have the day job over here. I'm earning money I've got the the night app that I'm building that I'm going to launch that as an income stream the freelance Work that's coming in jobs here and there where I'm producing stuff for other people So I'm learning about how to apply this stuff and somebody's paying me for it And I'm taking that knowledge and I'm putting it inside of my application over here and I'm taking that knowledge I'm taking all of this knowledge that I'm getting from the courses That I'm getting from the contract work that I'm getting from building my own thing And I'm using it to level up my skills at work if they promote me fantastic I'm making more money. I still got my other income streams and I'm still learning if they don't promote me Fantastic, I still got my other income streams and I have other opportunities If they don't promote me and I don't have other opportunities I got this thing that I'm building and I have this whole bank of skills that I can use and eventually find another job Or really push myself to finish this application or push myself to find more clients No matter what happens We got something we could turn to and we could say I'm gonna work this thing As much as I can to get as much as I can out of it to produce this much and when I hit that level I'll be comfortable and I can focus on this thing The most successful people in society that we hear about that we follow that we listen to that we that we read about These are the things that they're doing and that's where I messed up I got comfortable got distracted and I didn't do the things that I knew I should have been doing And I left myself at the mercy of the market when the market decided they didn't need me anymore It threw me into turmoil it threw my family into turmoil Everybody's confused and lost and they don't know what to do And I'm like man, am I good enough? Is this the path should I I should be taken should I go back to the army? Should I should I go get a day labor job or or whatever right? I'm thinking all these different things I get depressed and sad and all this other stuff a complete mess Eventually I was able to pull myself out of it and piece myself back together put together a plan And and and and really get inside of my head and clean out all the trash all the garbage that's in there And go look if this guy can do it you can do it and if this guy can do it you can do it And if she can do it and she can do it and they can do it and he can you can do this But you got to have some sort of concrete plan. Where is it? You're trying to get to what is it you want to do how much you want to earn? What kind of friends do you want to have what kind of relationships do you want to have? And it doesn't happen overnight you got to you got to find that place You got to go deep inside of yourself and figure out who you are and what it is you want to do Then little by little little steps little actions little habits writing your goals down every day Planning out what you're going to be doing the the next day and the next week when you sit down and do a task Applying all of your focus to that task little by little they build up and you become the person that you want to become And you're able to live the life you want to live I've experienced that I've done it But the like I said at some point I got comfortable and then I stopped Doing those things I left myself at the mercy of the market So we don't want to do that. That's the biggest mistake I made in 2018 It will not be a mistake that I make in 2019 or into the future We are focused that we've got it all laid out and we're going to go out and we're going to get a team And I want you guys to do the same. That's why I record these vlogs I like to hear myself talk of course, but I want to help people too I try to make content that that would help The person that I was yesterday in the day before and five years ago and 10 years ago and so on and so forth These are the I'm I'm trying to create the resources That I believe would have helped me when I was getting into the game and and I was I was trying to Figure out what direction I want to go and what it is. I want to learn but most importantly I want to I want to get inside of people's heads and and get them to thinking not necessarily about the skill But what the life like how do you want to feel on a daily basis? How do you want to live? What are the things you want to do when you focus on that stuff? Then you get happy and you like you start to feel this kind of way inside that bubbles up all these other things Like I really enjoy making music or I really enjoy making beats or I really enjoy sitting down at the computer Putting all my noise canceling headphones and just and just working on this idea for for this app or this game or whatever Right like and you're like that that like that would be the ideal work day like if I had to work I would do it for free. I would do it for no money. I would do it for a million dollars I would do it for zero dollars This is what I really enjoy doing then then you can go and you can build your future based on that And like I said, it doesn't happen overnight. It may take two months or three months It may take a year. It may take five years. It may take ten years It may take the rest of your life But at the very least you know you're working towards The life you want to live in the person you want to be and that's going to create a whole different dynamic for you team That was a lot of information to drop in one vlog team. 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I'm going to let you go now get on playing your day Do what it is you got to do get to where you want to be in 2019 Don't make the mistake that I did always be moving 10 extra goals get out there get after a team I will see you in the next vlog