Three Things People Want (and Why They're So Hard to Get) Part 1

Because at some point, every successful person discovers something very surprising.

And that's that achievement and fulfillment are not the same thing.

You know, you can build a successful company and lose your health.

Isn't it true? You can protect your health and neglect your financial future.

You can accumulate all the wealth in the world and wake up one day realizing you have sacrificed relationships, you have sacrificed experiences, and you have sacrificed moments that you're never going to get back.

So let's talk about that today.

Let's talk about the tension between health, wealth, and freedom.

This is what I would call the paradox of life.

This is a conversation that started in my life 20 some years ago with a mentor of mine who was having this conversation with me.

And at the time I was like, Bro, I'm not there.

I'm just trying to work myself into a frenzy so I can save up enough money for a down payment on a house.

I'm hearing this guy talking, but it's far from me, really.

But as I've become more middle-aged, if you will, Man, this is something that I've been thinking about quite a bit.

And I've noticed something very fascinating.

You know, life seems to distribute these three things, these three resources, very unevenly for us.

And shame on life.

to put us in this predicament you know when we're young we have all the energy in the world we recover quickly you know from working long days and whatever it might be we probably have fewer obligations maybe we're not even having kids just yet maybe it's just me maybe uh you know it's a spouse but but we have fewer obligations but you know what else we have we have almost no money we haven't really accumulated much unless you're a trust fund baby of which i was not Then we enter the building years.

You know, we're getting after it.

Rise and grind.

We're working hard.

We're raising our family.

We're chasing after our career.

We're starting businesses.

And the good news is our income does start to grow.

And man, that's very satisfying.