PDM 027: The $1,200 Challenge: What Will You Upgrade, Your Phone or Your Life?

Lucas P. Johnson: Do you upgrade your technology every time the next best thing comes out? Do you spend countless hours researching and thinking about it? Do you always have wants and desires that are materialistic and always end up purchasing them? So how does this translate to your life? Are you upgrading everything else that makes up your life but yourself? Think about that while we roll the intro.

Narrator: Welcome to the home of Project Dream Mastery. Here at PDM, we are challenging the status quo of what it means to follow your dreams and how to unlock the power those dreams will bring to your life. The show experience will be unscripted, authentic, and transparent. So now sit back, relax, and get inspired with your hosts, Lucas Johnson and Patryk Labuzek.

Lucas P. Johnson: Welcome to another episode of Project Dream Mastery. My name is Lucas Johnson.

Patryk Labuzek: And I'm Patryk Labuzek.

Lucas P. Johnson: Yesterday I was purchasing a new iPhone because mine was five years old. And I stumbled across the thought, do I really need a new phone? Do I really, really need to spend all this money? Or is this something that I just want? So often we are upgrading everything else in our lives but not ourselves. Every two years or when the next release comes out, we get a new phone and spend $1,000, $1,500 on it. And why do we do this?

Patryk Labuzek: Well, I think it's safe to say that we forget about ourselves foremost when making decisions to upgrade other components of our lives. And we follow our desires. But when it comes time to upgrade our lives, we debate the price of admission. We debate the price of the course, the training, the coaching, whatever it may be. We debate ourselves until we choose to upgrade else but ourselves.

Lucas P. Johnson: It's really just amazing, man. You know, we upgrade every other component of our lives but we don't upgrade the thing that really needs it, the part of us that makes us, us, our brain, our abilities, our skills, everything that makes us who we are. We forget the most important thing is us as a human being. We have all these materialistic things surrounding us, all these components and these elements that allow us to live the way we do. TVs, desks, books, lamps, t-shirts headphones. We have all these things available to us, and they are tools that allow us to get to that next step or that point in our life that we want to be. But we forget and we neglect the part that allows us to actually get there. So, Paddy, what does that look like in your life? What have you been going through in your life that you feel like you could upgrade but you choose to upgrade another component?

Patryk Labuzek: Countless things. I mean I've got a, whatever, a three-year-old phone. My laptop is like ten years old right now. It needs an upgrade definitely. There's a few things that I would buy right now. But what I always have in the back of my head, and I mentioned this countless times, you all know this, I love traveling. Right? For me, it brings me happiness. It brings me joy. It puts me in a position where I really feel like myself. And I prioritize that over anything else. So with that in mind, I'm not getting this new laptop. I'm not getting this new phone. I'm not getting these new pair of headphones that are worth 250 bucks. I'd rather spend that money on something that truly, deep down makes me happy. And it's not a materialistic thing per se. I'm paying for an experience. I'm paying for upgrading my own experience on this planet, upgrading my own time that I have here and making new memories, making new friends, meeting new people, and learning. And that's the most important thing for me.

Lucas P. Johnson: The experiences, yes. They make up a component of your life. And I would say that's upgrading not just, you know, the things in your life but also upgrading your brain, upgrading the part of you that allows you to be who you are. Have you ever just got stuck on the Amazon train where you go on Amazon, you look at one thing, and then all of a sudden, you end up on something completely different? It just keeps on going. It's a cycle over and over again. And then you look at your--

Patryk Labuzek: The beauty of recommends. Right.

Lucas P. Johnson: It amazes me that we get stuck in this loop. We get snuck over and over and over again, thinking about the things that we want. And they all of a sudden appear right in front of us, mostly due to retargeting. And it's an element of marketing that has really, really become proficient over the years as people get more immersed in technology. And it's an ever-growing field for all these companies, and it's also ever-growing in our lives. Going back to upgrading everything else in our lives but ourselves, man, that iPhone that I just purchased was $1,200 one-off or $40 a month. I chose to go with a $40 plan. Others choose to go with the $1,200 plan. I think about those moments where we choose the $40 over the $1,200 or the $1,200 over $40. You have monthly plans and you have annual plans.

Lucas P. Johnson: I looked at that plan, and I said to myself, all right, well, I can, that's more reasonable. I can do that. 40 bucks isn't much per month. Okay. I can do that. All right. Great. But that $1,200 plan, when you look at that for someone's coaching or someone's course, think well, I can't do that. And it might not be because you don't the means. That iPhone I just bought, it's going to cost me more than $1,200. It's gonna cost me probably $1,400 or $1,500 when it's all said and done plus the insurance and whatever else I had to get on it. But I was okay doing it because it was $40 a month. I was okay upgrading my technology because it was $40 per month. But I wasn't okay with upgrading my life through that course for $1,200.

Lucas P. Johnson: It's so sad to think about it that way, but it's the truth. We get stuck in a loop, whether it be through Amazon, whether it be through Walmart, all these big companies, whether it be the Tesla, the Tesla of e-commerce. We get stuck in the loop of not controlling our lives, but controlling the things that are in front of us available right now that can give you that quick fix.

Patryk Labuzek: I feel like we get stuck in a loop, to add to what you're saying, we get stuck in a loop of upgrading our things to what other people have rather than upgrading ourselves to be better than other people. And it's very sad thinking about that we're not willing to spend this X amount of dollars on ourselves, as in truly on ourselves, to enable us to learn new things, to develop, to help us live a better life. But we choose to buy a new iPhone, which is just a momentary thing because two years down the line, you're going to buy a new one anyway. Whereas a course that might cost you $1,000 or Euro or whatever currency you're paying, I mean those lessons, they stick with you for life. So you know, you have this balance, you know, where what is more important? Is it that new piece of technology that you're going to change and dump into two years' time? Or should we pay for something non-materialistic that's going to stay with us for our entire life and allow us to, you know, spread the knowledge to other people as well?

Lucas P. Johnson: It's not learn though. It's not, it's not, it's learned. It's not instinctual. We are learning it from others, the people that surround us, our tribe, our circle, our family. We learn that. So what do we do--

Patryk Labuzek: A hundred percent. I mean think about it. Can I break in there? Think about when you were a child, all you've been getting is a new toy. And then, you know, when you grow up from, you know, those little cars, you got a video game. And then you got something else. All of those materialistic things rather than getting a present that, you know, will allow you to, like a non-materialistic present that will help you be a better version of yourself. But you get that new toy for your birthday rather than something like that. And that's what you're saying. Like this is embedded in our minds because that's how our society works.

Lucas P. Johnson: Paddy, when I was a kid, that actually brings up a great point. When I was a kid, my parents got me for Christmas, a laptop, and it wasn't the one I wanted. And I was, I don't know, 9, maybe 12, somewhere in that area. It wasn't the laptop I wanted. And this makes me sick thinking back to the way I reacted to it. It was a secondhand laptop. It was either my mom's or my brother's. And they gave it to me for Christmas because obviously I was young and I didn't really need a laptop. But I said to them when I got it, I wasn't happy. I wasn't excited. I was very displeased. I had something I wanted something, that I didn't necessarily need right in front of me. It wasn't the upgraded version. It wasn't the new one. It was the used one. It was something some one gave me think, one, to teach me a lesson, but two, also make me appreciate the things that are right in front of you. Think about the things that we have right in front of us that we can use to learn instead of upgrading. Someone gives you a gift and you don't like it, you don't say I don't like it. Well, I did. I think it hurt my parents' feelings. But looking back whenever they took it away and said, well, you don't get one now, it was a major learning lesson in my life. And sometimes we just got to say to ourselves, you don't get this right now. You know, this isn't your time to shine. This isn't yours. You will earn this once you invest in yourself, once you get that six figures, once you get that seven figures, once you follow your dreams, once you travel, you will get that other thing that you want. Upgrade your life. Forget about the things that are right in front of you.

Lucas P. Johnson: It's just, it's a way of thinking. It's a way that we got to keep on learning and train ourselves. So what is one thing that you've recently purchased that you could say maybe someone else has purchased that you could live without? What is one thing?

Patryk Labuzek: Definitely, there's one thing. I've got a new car about maybe five months ago, four months ago. A new car. I mean four wheels. Do I need it? Yes, I need it to get to work, to get to my customers, to visit my family, my parents. But was it essential for me to spend $80,000 for a new car? Couldn't I just get a car that's worth $5,000, has four wheels, drives ,and it's perfectly sound? I mean it was the choice that I made. I decided to get the upgraded version, get a car with 50 grand rather than a car that's worth five grand. Is it making a bigger difference in my life? Maybe I'm not as tired as driving longer distances. Was it necessary to spend that much money? No, it wasn't. I could have invested that $45,000 in myself, a non-materialistic thing. I could have gone, as I say, and like I said, I love traveling. I could have went on a trip to God knows where, Antarctica right now for that amount of money. But I chose not to. And episodes like this, when we talk about things that are very close to our heart, they're personal questions that we ask ourselves. You ask me questions. I ask you questions. And they're on a personal level. And through these episodes, when I listen back to them, I learn. And so would I make the same choice again? Maybe, maybe not. I mean we learn. We invest in ourselves all the time. So I'd say I'd probably think about it twice.

Lucas P. Johnson: If you look at the way people live their lives, we all live differently. I mean we're all unique, and we preach that here at Project Dream Mastery. But everyone lives differently. Some people live outside their means. Some people are very frugal and live way in their means, sometimes even better. Then some live right in the middle. Everyone's got a different expectation. A way to define that is to go through and figure out what you need to upgrade now. What's working for you and what's not. Write down your goals, set expectations for yourself, and then go an defy those expectations. I mean hell, we preach that too. Right? Paddy, I was recently thinking about this. When we purchase a puppy or an animal of some sorts, you go into the store here in the United States called Petco or PetSmart. And not just one of the two. There's Chewy. There's a bunch of those online brands as well. And I was recently going in, we were getting ready to buy some stuff for Ollie. Thinking to myself, wow, there's a lot of things that we can upgrade. There's a lot of things that I can go in here and get for Ollie. I mean so many times we don't even know where we want to be, and we don't know what we want to get because the things that are right in front of us don't necessarily meet those expectations.

Lucas P. Johnson: When I got Ollie, I didn't think about all the expenses that will come with it. Vaccinations, vet appointments, weight checks, any of the colds or sicknesses that he might get, any of the surgeries. I didn't think about it. I just said I want this. And the reason why I got in that moment of saying I want this for a period of time till I actually executed on it was an animal is just like a kid. You have to take care of it. It gets sick. There's elements that you have to worry about outside of yourself. For me, I wanted to worry about something, someone else outside of myself on a daily basis. And I always think about my family. But think about it. You have an animal, then it's going to upgrade your life. It's not investing in that technology. It's not something that's going to be there temporary and give you that instant gratification, instant relief, instant satisfaction. That upgrade, whether it be an animal, whether it be a course, it's going to help you progress your life in a much different level, much different perspective.

Lucas P. Johnson: Yes. There's upgrades that come along with your animal and your pet. Like Ollie, he's got, he's sitting down here, down underneath him, he's got his little cot. He's got his toys. He's nibbling on my toes. And the best thing I did was adopt him, was become a dog dad. And I've had him for roughly going on three months now, Paddy, and he has been just an unbelievable part of my life. I've chosen to stay home with him instead of going out with friends. I've decided to go more walks. I've upgraded almost every part of my life because of him. And I want to pose a question here to you that's listening is, what are you doing in your life to upgrade those parts, those things that you really, really think would benefit you long term? What are you doing to upgrade the moments that are experiences and the moments that are going to allow your brain to become more knowledgeable or developed? What are you doing? Just what time in your life is better than now? Paddy, what could you, what are you doing now to upgrade this part of your life? I mean this is, we're at a point where we're just like, what are we doing? COVID's still here. It's 2021. COVID is still here. What are we doing right now to make an impact on our lives?

Patryk Labuzek: Honestly, I just made that decision last month. And we talked about this in the last episode. The reason why I moved out of my parents' house and got my own place was because this is a tremendous, a new learning lesson in my life. Something that improves my life in a sense. I learned new things. I mean I have to keep a schedule. You know, I have to wash the dishes. I have to, you know, turn on the washing machine. The bills have to be paid. It teaches me, it teaches me to be responsible. It teaches me to organize my time well. It teaches me how valuable time with your family is when you get to spend it together. It teaches me a lot of things. And that was one of the things that I do to improve my life right now. Another one clearly is PDM. We do this weekly. And it tremendously, tremendously improves my life from week to week when I listen back to the episodes. Because like I said, we ask personal questions, and often I get the answers I seek from you or sometimes I actually get them from myself when I listen back. It's incredible. So life improvements all the way.

Lucas P. Johnson: We talked about it in a previous episode about being a lifestyle engineer or a consultant. And I find it really unique when you find different perspectives and bring them together to find a solution. That is upgrading your life because you were wondering what the answer might be, and someone just proposed a potential solution. They're a lifestyle engineer. They're consultants. Everyone is. Figuring out what you need to do and providing the next solution or finding the next answer. We get stuck too many times trying to figure out what we need to do to upgrade our lives. I mean hell, dude, we've been working on Coachington and Project Dream Mastery for quite a bit and figuring out what we want to do on the next step. It's really crazy, man. It's, it's thinking about what can we do to be better, to do better? What can we do to impact people's lives? I mean on episode 26 I believe or 25, we talked about making goals. No, episode 24, we talked about setting goals for 2021 and what we expect to do here in 2021. Impact of 1 million people's lives. Is that achievable? It is. It is completely achievable if you go out and upgrade your life. If you go out and allow someone to help upgrade your life. Coaching is one of the single greatest things you can get. Now, I have plenty of coaches and mentors and consultants that surround me on a daily basis, and I wouldn't be the person I am without them. Who do you have surrounding you? Who's there on your daily basis that you know you can count to for advice? Even the greats have coaches. Look at any of the NBA, NFL, any of the sports, any major CEO or anyone just in general, everyone always has a coach or someone surrounding them. That's how they get better. Someone to learn from. So Paddy, who are you getting coaching from? What's coaching you through life right now, my friend?

Patryk Labuzek: Always parents from the start probably till the end. I'm always going to learn from them. I'm always going to get a good coaching. And, you know, sometimes they'll straighten me up, you know, and say, look, this is not the way to do it. And that's one of the most valuable advice you can get, from your parents. I mean another one, like this is it. PDM. PDM once again. Like it answers a lot of my questions. And then books. I read whenever I get a chance to have some time. I read because there's so much knowledge out there. So many books, millions, hundreds of millions. And every book teaches you a different lesson and helps you to understand things, helps you to look at situations in a different way from a different view. So like, you know, the way you said every successful person, any great CEO has a coach. I feel like every successful person has more than one coach.

Lucas P. Johnson: Oh yeah. Yeah. They use those coaches as a mechanism to learn, as a mechanism to continue to grow. And if we don't have those people around us to help us upgrade, we kind of lose track. We don't see. We have tunnel vision. We do. We are so focused on what we want or maybe we're so focused on something that's a distraction that we forget about everything else that's gonna focus itself in that bird's eye view. So how do we overcome this tunnel vision? Sometimes it's difficult. I mean I sit there on a Friday night debating whether I want to go to the bar or hang out with a friend or if I want to work on Coachington or Project Dream Mastery or work with a client. I get tunnel vision thinking about all right, I could have a lot of fun tonight or I can make an impact on my business and allow myself to have fun later down the road. So what are we going to do to upgrade our lives? Are we going to invest in that $1,200 course today?

Lucas P. Johnson: That's up to you. That's up to you to find your trainings. We do it too much, not just in courses. We do it in our lives of our family and friends. We do in our relationships. We do it with our dreams. We get so distracted by everything else that we upgrade everything else, but we don't upgrade those areas. For example, what in your life right now might be making an impact on you? Is it your tribe, your friends, your relationships? Too many times we get caught not analyzing the people in our lives because we're so okay with it. We're like, yep, all right, yep, this is perfect. Let's keep these people in our lives. When really we need to evaluate what they're doing for us, what they're contributing to us, how they're making us better, how we're making them better. Like I say in plenty of our episodes, give and take, my friend. Give and take. Got to figure out what you need to upgrade now before you don't have the progress you want later on. What exactly is going to be that next step for us to upgrade our relationships, Paddy? What would we do to get those to the next level? Spend some more time with your dog or your pet?

Patryk Labuzek: Well, I think this goes back to the comfort zones. We need to pass through them to achieve great things. I mean the only thing stopping ourselves is our head. And it's just that if we can get through our comfort zones, that's when we actually develop. That's when you can see new things. And you know, that's going to help us. And what you were saying just right now in relationships. For sure. I mean you can be a shy person. You can be an introvert. I mean take that step forward and go out. Talk to that girl. You know? Talk to you a new person. Make a new friend. It takes courage. It takes, for certain people, it takes the effort to go out of that comfort zone. They're just not comfortable enough surrounded with strangers. But going back to the topic of our episode, the best coach is probably any good book that talks about those things. Any one of us would see things in a new light if that answers your question then.

: Finding the light in the dark, it's going to be really tough. Going to be really, really tough. We want to find it, but we always seem to have those distractions. Even in this conversation we're having right now, it can be tough to be authentic because we fear what people think about us. We fear what we're saying might not be the best answer or the best advice. Truth be told, man, sometimes we need a base, we need to start, we need a foundation to get to that final answer. So many times we get lost down that road. Like we talked about previously, there's a lot of mountains, there's a lot of valleys, a lot of challenges. And you'll have to pivot. But if you don't take the necessary steps along the way to upgrade those components of that equation, you'll find yourself on an endless loop. Maybe that's upgrading that phone now and investing in that course or that coach or that travel, that journey later, just to figure out that it wasn't the right choice you made right in that moment.

Patryk Labuzek: I mean I think we should also clarify here that upgrading that new phone per se could be upgrading life as well. I mean if you're a content creator, if you're a photographer, upgrading that camera is very important for your work and brings you money and brings you. It pays the bills. And so those unnecessary things that we upgrade are different from person to person. You know, for us, as of right now recording this, a good upgrade to our life could be getting a new microphone, could be getting a new camera. Maybe we need a new audio interface. But for someone down the road, the priorities are different. They don't need any of this. You know? But they need something else.

Lucas P. Johnson: What are you trying to say there, Paddy? What are you trying to say? Are you calling me out there with making upgrades in my life? Because I know I have. What are you trying to say? Are you saying that I bought this [inaudible]?

Patryk Labuzek: I'm trying to say that getting a materialistic thing, what we're not trying to convey is that getting materialist things is a bad thing. It could be an upgrade to your life depending on your needs, depending on what your life is, depending on what you do, depending what you're interested in. I mean like if you have a certain hobby that makes you happy that you really feel like you're developing, like you want to put stuff out there, get it. If you can afford it, get it. You deserve it. It improves your life. It improves your happiness.

Lucas P. Johnson: But man, we're crazy. Simple ell enough, we are all crazy. We're weird. We're strange. You know what, man? We want to do so many things to please everyone else, and maybe that's not upgrading your life. And that's completely okay. You know, we get so focused on this tunnel vision occasionally. Other times, we're looking at all these other things that make up our lives. How do you choose just one? You have your house to worry about. You have your bills have worry about. You have your job to worry about. You have your extracurriculars, your hobbies. You have every single element that makes up your life in question. So where do you start is, is really the point I think we all want to know, is where do we start along this journey? And if I may take the first stab, I'll say that it starts with what's most important to you. What's the most important to me right now, at least lately and what I've been putting off until yesterday, I was focusing all of my time and effort on enjoying life. But that also was focused on Coachington and Project Dream Mastery. So the last two weeks, while I figured out what I really want to focus on, I started narrowing in and focusing on stuff with Eric and you and really starting to put a lot more effort and the pieces that make up our business. And if you're not familiar, check out Coachington.com as well as Project Dream Mastery and you'll learn a lot more about that.

Lucas P. Johnson: But I started focusing in on that that I actually pushed every single thing outside, all my hobbies, all the bars that I was invited to go to, all the parties, all the friends. All of the things that I wanted to do that I knew would have been great and I knew it would've been the time of my life, I chose to have FOMO, fear of missing out. And I stayed right here, planted my ass on this seat and worked the last two weekends consistently. One of the things Gary Vaynerchuk talks about is the time is now. I mean you can do whatever you want. You have all the time in the world to get there. You know, you can be 30, 40, 50, 60. It doesn't matter what age you're at. The time is now. Go do it. If you want to take a break and enjoy your life, do it. There's still going to be the next thing. It's always going to be there. Entrepreneurship, it's always going to be there. You don't know how long you're gonna live. Time is the single greatest enemy we all have. It's the same thing we have in common throughout the duration of our life. So if we focus on the things we want right now and make them a reality and we focus in on that one thing we want to upgrade, we can start to make serious progress. So what do we do? We invest in a platform called Asana. We invested in a couple of other solutions like Slack. We started putting together a process flow for how we want to execute on certain segments of our business. We started thinking about the new template or the new website we're putting together for Coachington. We started thinking about the services and offerings we're going to contribute to that business again. Reevaluating our marketing efforts, reevaluating what makes up our business.

Lucas P. Johnson: When you start focusing in on those things, you start to unlock and uncovered the little tiny tasks that are associated with that bigger, larger concept. It's really amazing to see what you can do once you really take that picture and focus in on the little tiny pixels. What are you going to do right now to narrow in on those pixels that make up this very, very large picture? You might be sitting in a car right now thinking like, what the hell is this dude saying? You might be sitting in the office right now like, all right, I am not a huge fan of this guy or Paddy. We're just going to say to you like, man, get your shit together. Figure out what you want, what do you want to do. You can't be upgrading every single thing in your life without upgrading yourselves because you're just gonna be the same boat you were yesterday and the day before. Upgrade the things that are going to contribute to your success and your happiness, not the one-offs. I'll leave the ball in your court, Patryk or Paddy. Patryk. I'll leave the ball in your court, buddy.

Patryk Labuzek: Absolutely. I mean the truth is upgrading your life and getting the things that will help you learn are pricelss. They're priceless. Like we're all humans. I mean a price is put on them for their time and the knowledge and expertise that someone has put into creating that content from which you can learn, creating that course. Oh, there's Ollie.

Lucas P. Johnson: Paddy, what you're saying, man, is completely---

Patryk Labuzek: I got very distracted.

Lucas P. Johnson: I brought Ollie here because I want you guys to nail something. If you're trying to figure out whether you need a pet in your life or you need someone in your life to bring happiness to it, you don't need it. Ollie's right here. We don't, we don't need it, buddy, do we? What we need is finding someone or something to bring a little bit of a happiness to our life. Right? I don't need Ollie here every single day to bring happiness to my life or bring happiness to others. I need Ollie here because he makes me happy. I upgraded that part of my life because, you know, sometimes it gets lonely living by yourself. And you might be dating, and you might be out in the world exploring. It gets lonely doing it by yourself. And even if you have friends, it's nice to have a friend that always is going to be there for you, someone that you can run your thoughts by and have someone that's listening all the time. All the time, aren't you? And not say anything back. You know what's crazy, Paddy? Is we try to find coaches and mentors, but they're right in front of us. They're right next to us. They're listening, and we don't even know it. We talk about in a previous episode, episode 26, about did I ask. Did I ask the right questions or did the person ask at all? But they answer. It's the same thing here. Those people may have not asked or may have provided an answer, but it helped upgrade your life. It helped upgrade that part that you're you're questioning. While we're at it, I'm gonna put Ollie down. There you go, buddy. You have to find times in your life that are worth upgrading and find something to make a little bit of happiness come to your life, that little piece of light that you know it's going to be there, whether that's a family, a kid, whether that's a puppy, whether that's a cat. Maybe it's like Paddy and his cup of coffee in the morning. I've never seen someone get so excited about coffee. I mean he's so excited. He's got his cup of coffee. He's got his beans. He's got his little coffee maker. And I'm sitting there in Ireland, and I go, buddy, I could go for a cup of coffee. Oh, you want coffee? What kind do you want? I got like seven different kinds from seven different countries. I brought them back from me or brought them back with me. I was like, you've gone through customs. He goes, oh yeah. Yeah, that wasn't a problem. All right. So he's upgrading a part of his life that brings joy. The simple little things like coffee beans. Right, Paddy? I mean little things can be an upgrade.

Patryk Labuzek: I mean yeah. But what even gets me even more excited, as you know, is a green coconut straight from my tree. I mean.

Lucas P. Johnson: I knew that was coming.

Patryk Labuzek: I mean yeah, I bet you did. I mean I would invest my own time to climb a palm tree. I can climb it, no problem. I'll climb that palm tree 10 meters up to get my coconut. I'm not going to be able to come down. That's the problem. I'll climb up. I'm not going to be able to climb down.

Lucas P. Johnson: Catch the coconut, buddy. Catch it.

Patryk Labuzek: So the only choice I have is to pay someone who can do it for me. But at the end of the day, it's an investment in upgrading my life. Because at that moment, while I have that coconut or I have this coffee, a simple thing as it may be. Right? Could cost a few cents. It brings me a tremendous happiness.

Lucas P. Johnson: Are you playing devil's advocate there, buddy, in saying that you can upgrade things with materials or little items and still bring happiness to your life? Because I think that's what you're saying.

Patryk Labuzek: A hundred percent.

Lucas P. Johnson: That's true.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah, yeah. A hundred percent. I've nothing to add to this. Yeah.

Lucas P. Johnson: You can get caught upgrading your life with that $1,200 phone or that $40 a month, and it truly be an upgrade. Why? Because it enables you to have success in your business. It enables you to be in contact with people from other part of the world. Do you need a $1,200 phone for that? Probably not. You probably could have got away with a $60 flip phone on eBay. But I mean who's to judge? It's your choice to upgrade that part of the life. If you're like me, how does that equate over the years? Is that a hundred dollars per year, $200 per year over six years? Because some people, they don't upgrade their phone every two years. They wait time to upgrade until it's needed to be upgraded. And the answer to the question we started the show off with, I wanted to save it for the best for last, is you can upgrade things in your life and also upgrade yourself. Upgrading my phone was was a business decision. I've had the same phone since the iPhone 10 came out. I don't even know how long that was. It was one of the first phones I got before that for four or five years as well. So I had this phone. I got it. It's like, okay, great. And then I've never upgraded since. It was a business decision because my phone was going super slow. I needed to be able to access documents for Coachington and Project Dream Mastery and it was helping upgrade myself because it was giving me more time to enable me to be more efficient, to be more productive. So you can upgrade everything else in your life but also upgrade yourself. It just depends on how you're using that as a tool or resource to enable you. It's funny. Right? You didn't think it was going to come back to that, but that's how this is structured today.

Lucas P. Johnson: The truth is--

Patryk Labuzek: I mean always spontaneous.

Lucas P. Johnson: Yeah. But the truth is, man, is we get so stuck thinking about that way. We get stuck with the tunnel vision, and we just don't allow ourselves to be the best version of ourselves. So we need to pick a part of each of these items in detail, look at those pixels, to find the direction that we need to go. I would have never paid $1,200 for a phone unless I needed it. Mine still works, but that's not the point. It still works, but now this phone is going to become the one I use for my personal. The one I'm getting, that's coming is going to be used for the business. I will put another number on the personal because too many people have it and keep the other one for my business. So Paddy, I just want, I kind of want to bring this to a close with saying, what are you doing right now to enable yourself to achieve your deepest desires, your deepest dreams, to enable you to find your way? Paddy, what are you doing right now to make an impact on your life for the long term outside of our business? What are you doing for your personal life?

Patryk Labuzek: I have [inaudible] hobbies and I try to go back to them as much as possible. Because as much as they bring me happiness and joy and, you know, they provide a kind of like gateway from the everyday life, I pick up new skills along the way. Who's to say they're not going to come very, very useful in my next job, my next relationship or, you know, if I move out to another country, let's say or, you know, I'll get to help someone out with a new skill that I acquired? I mean, you know, it's little things like that. So that's them. I mean going back to my blog, not a business, complete personal thing. Could grow into a business. I'm not saying it will never. It won't. That's why creating quality content, meaningful content, and truly from within my heart is super, super important. Who knows what's going to happen in one year down the line, two years down the line? Could blow up. I mean--

Lucas P. Johnson: It's not if, but when. It's not if, but when.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah. Essentially.

Lucas P. Johnson: So Paddy, I want you to tell me when you're going to accomplish that? Making Always Somewhere a thing. Really, I know we talked about it in one of our other episodes, about how the numbers are skyrocketing. Well, what is it that you have a goal for in 2021? What do you see for your blog? What do you, what do you want from it out of 2021?

Patryk Labuzek: Well, you see, for 2021, I decided to dedicate as much time as possible for Coachington and Project Dream Mastery. And that means that I have the move things aside. I mean we only have X amount of time a day. And I can't change it. Even if I wanted to invest in upgrading my life, I can't invest in a time machine. It doesn't exist. If it did, I would sell my car and get a time machine that I could relive that day every single day and do new things all the time. I would. Or put a pause on it completely. So saying when will I accomplish big things for Always Somewhere, I feel like I'm making myself every single year. Like I explained in our previous episode, 2020 has been the biggest year for Always Somewhere to date. What's to say that next year is not going to be even bigger? And it will. It a hundred percent will because I'm putting more and more effort, and I've learned more and more along the way. So when? Hopefully as soon as possible.

Lucas P. Johnson: Shameless plug, AlwaysSomewhere.net in the show notes. Check it out. Get that experience. It's incredible. You should see his photos. Oh my goodness. Unbelievable.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah. Thanks. Like I said, always a hundred percent.

Lucas P. Johnson: I love that. That's a great way to go into the homework. If you give it a hundred percent, you have nothing to fear. You have nothing to regret. I'm also one that says no regrets. So take that for what it's worth. You got to live your life with everything at the forefront, living every choice with being your own. And if you live with that, then you can't regret it because you made it. You just chose it. You are the one that's going to move forward and you can try to fix it, but you knew what you wanted in that moment and you elected to make that choice. Might not have always been the best choice, but it allows us to give it a hundred percent. So with that, I want to give it over to Paddy, to give us the homework for the week.

Patryk Labuzek: The homework for the week is as follows. Enroll in any course or training or get a coach that will help you long term. Because there's nothing more important than investing in yourself over things you don't really need in your life. And we go back to this all the time. I can't stress it enough. I mean read a book about your dream. Read a book that's going to impact your life. Read a book that will allow you to gain a new skill. I mean if you don't like books, watch a movie. There's plenty of those out there. Go on YouTube, watch a video, get coached by people who've put in a massive amount of work and that, you know, went through many different problems and see things in a different way. Learn. And I think that's plenty of homework to have.

Lucas P. Johnson: I'll also put a shameless plug in there. If you are interested, here at Project Dream Mastery and Coachington, we do offer one-on-one personalized coaching that goes along with specific methodology for a specific topic that you may be interested in. We also offer courses for every kind of component that'll take you from your zero to hero days. So check it out at Coachington.com. And it's currently going through the process of a revamp. So if the site is not live right now, just check back again here in the next week and you'll see something incredible, and it might just align with what your target is for your future. Paddy, you couldn't have said it any better. We have so much to offer, and it's just the beginning. It's just the start of where we are. In one of the books that I'll suggest reading or for your reading, if you're interested in starting a business that really will help you, or a course, is a book called Launch by Jeff Walker. I have nothing but great things to say about him. He also offers a masterclass that allows you to take what's in the book and apply it to your business. And it's more personalized. It's that one-on-one. It's that group coaching and so forth that'll workshops and so forth you can check out. It's called the product launch formula, PLF. So check it out. It's really--product launch formula. That's it. PLF. JeffWalker.com. There is no way in any way, shape, or form, a sponsorship or anything for that. Just he's made an impact in my life and he's also made an impact on our business. So really grateful for everything we've learned from that.

Lucas P. Johnson: With that, I'll give us a quick close. If you have not already, please make sure to review the show, subscribe, like, and share so we can reach more amazing listeners like you. All of our shows are available in both audio, video, and written form. So make sure to check out our website ProjectDreamMastery.com to access the full experience. Well, thank you so much for joining us here at Project Dream Mastery. We are super duper grateful for you, and we're grateful for every moment we get to spend with you. Whether it's in the future or whether it's a day, we hope that we have made an impact on your life. And we hope that you take at least one thing from today and apply it to your life. We know that we're not always perfect and we don't expect to be. We want to be in your tribe. We want to be in your circle. So take the steps, follow us, and make things a reality. Defy, dream, love. We'll see you on the next episode of Project Dream Mastery. Thanks. Talk to you soon.