PDM 004: Define Success For Your Future

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: Hello and welcome to the fourth episode of the Project Dream Mastery Show, where we help inspire you to follow your dreams, defy expectations, dream big and love deeply. My name is Lucas P. Johnson, and I'm based out of Charlotte, North Carolina. I am one of the two hosts here at PDM and the other man behind the mic is Patryk Labuzek, born in Poland and based out of Dublin, Ireland. Very unique background, so stay tuned for more. In today's episode, we will be focusing on drum roll please... Defining success for your future. So, Patryk, what do you say? Why don't we jump right into this really kind of unique topic?

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah, let's jump right in.

Lucas P. Johnson: So the reason why we're kind of exposing this topic today is I was sitting on my couch, my usual position as everything's going on in the world right now. What else do you do is watch a little bit of Netflix, maybe a little audio book, whatever it is. I was sitting there and this quote came up and it was "Success is becoming one's true, best self, achieving one's potential." Now, when I think about success in my life, I'd like to think I live by that quote, but I think we all have a unique take on what success actually looks like in our lives. So, Paddy, what do you think success looks like for you in the longterm, in the future and even in the present?

Patryk Labuzek: Well, putting it simply, I think for me, success is being able to do... To be able to do free what I love most, and I think that's a definition of success for me, you know? Like being able to write my blog, being able to do this right now, instead of being stuck somewhere in an office doing your usual work. So yeah, success for me is being able to, to do things that I love without other external things impacting it.

Lucas P. Johnson: If you're looking at your life and you're digging deep into what you actually love, what would you say is your number one component to your life that bring us the ultimate happiness besides your family and friends and so forth. If you had to pick one thing, what would it be?

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah, I mean very difficult, but if I was supposed to... yeah, I'm on top of my head, I'd say travel. Travel definitely. You know? It makes me feel the happiest when I'm on the road and going into the unknown most of the times. For me, going back to the success, that's exactly what it is. So success is doing what I love. I love traveling, going somewhere, it doesn't matter if it's abroad or during the pandemic right now of COVID-19, but we're stuck in our countries going on a day trip to maybe some village or city we haven't seen before. To me, that's it makes me happy. To me, that's success, being able to do that, especially knowing that a lot of people don't have the opportunities. They might be sick, they might come to care for their family, especially now during these difficult times. So yeah. Travel, travel, definitely.

Lucas P. Johnson: So travel. I actually, I knew that that was coming. I saw that. Yeah, that was something I knew was coming alwayssomewhere.net. Paddy has got an amazing blog over there. We've talked about in the previous episodes, and if you have not yet, please tune into those. These are kind of sequential in a way, they make you think about different topics, kind of different applications in your life. And as Paddy was talking about travel in his life, if you're really looking at our topic today is defining success for your future, you have to think about what you want to... Or where do you want to be in five, 10, 15, 20 years. Do you see yourself behind a desk or in a cubicle? Do you see yourself traveling the world? Do you find yourself in a position where income is the most important aspect of your life? I think these are all components of defining success for yourself and Paddy, I think the travel component, man that is that one piece is just incredible because that allows you to kind of get immersed into all these different cultures and backgrounds that we've discussed in our previous episodes. It's just really cool to see how in other countries they have different takes on as well.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah, exactly. But also travel is a very broad topic in itself. So I'd say by saying travel makes me happy, I think it's a lot of other little factors or not so little after all the factors that kind of come together to make the definition of traveling, which is different cultures, different people you meet on the way, seeing different things and most importantly, learning new things about yourself when you're being challenged, when you're being put outside of your four walls and you're able to kind of come out of your comfort zones. So put together, I think that's what travel really is. I don't know, maybe me and you, maybe we just like to challenge ourselves every day, you know? And that's why we're, we're, we're happy. That's for sure.

Lucas P. Johnson: Paddy and I, again, we've traveled all over the world and various countries, him more so than me, but I think kind of bringing those together is we really love to travel. If we could, right now, that's where we'd be. We'd be like digital nomads sitting on a beach right now, or Paddy would be Aquaman and he'd be enjoying himself there. But I think sometimes we... Paddy, let me know if this applies to you or is applicable at least in your life. Sometimes we get over our... way in over our heads. What matters to us is not always what matters to others, and we kind of take that approach as we're not always doing things that are best for ourselves, but sometimes we're doing what's best for other people.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah, that's completely true. I think that's... Everybody could relate to this, honestly, because that's what we talked about last episode is other people's defining expectations upon us. So that may be your family, your friends, your teachers, a lot of different people that we're trying to please every day. Our bosses from our work. So yeah.

Lucas P. Johnson: I think you already said this, brings it back to our last episode, things are not always as beautiful as you always think.

Patryk Labuzek: That's right.

Lucas P. Johnson: You know? We all have our own definition of what success means. For me, I like to think that I've been successful so far in my life and that's kind of a big saying, something for me to really come out and say that because I mean, my life's just getting started I really think, you know? I don't know what I want with my life. I got no... I don't know what I want to do when I grow up. Simple as that.

Patryk Labuzek: I completely relate to this Lucas. That's why... How I see success is a little... I break success into small stages of my life. So what success was for me when I was 16, having my first car, that was a big success. That was a major factor, you know? Having my own little car that barely moved on the road. I Had to be pushed on the hill because it was a little engine, lack of power. To being 18 and success was being able to travel to my first country outside of Europe, and then starting uni, success was getting the grades I needed and then moving on and going to Australia, you know?

Patryk Labuzek: Then going and being in Australia was meeting a great group of friends, so there's different stages in my life I felt like I achieved some kind of success, but success is so broad in itself that I can't say that I feel like I'm successful right now because I'm happy. I'm competent with what I'm doing, but this might not be the case in, let's say six months, you know? Something new is going to come up and we're going to try each one of us, whatever it might be, a new challenge on your way. You feel you're successful once you achieved something, something extra. So it's putting... Pushing that a little bit forwarder and forwarder and in the end, I think success in those little stages and building it up and then saying, "Okay I'm successful," but it's not necessarily true that you're going to be successful in a years time or two years time.

Lucas P. Johnson: I'm going to jump in right there, because that right there, I think is really kind of a good point for... If you're listening right now, things right now are not always going to be the same next year. So your definition of success right now in this moment is going to be fairly different next year, and that's because, there's different obstacles and challenges that you really have come in your life. Maybe it's a new job, maybe it's meeting new people, making new friends, finding a group, changing locations, moving to a new country, moving to a new state and so forth. You can just keep on going and going and going, and there's all those other extraordinary circumstances that come in. Maybe you lost a loved one, or something along those lines. Your definition of success is slowly going to come back to I think what that quote said, "Success is becoming ones true, best self achieving one's potential."

Lucas P. Johnson: Because at one point in your life, you think you're going to be super successful or you are super successful, but a great role model of mine and I'm not going to say their name just to set respect. But they said that "I want to be the best version I can be in 10 years, the best version of myself that I can be in 10 years. And when I look at myself who was my role model in 10 years, that's the person, that's my role model," because you never know where you are in your life. In 10 years from now, you're only as good as the decisions you made now to be successful. So truly going back to what to defined success for, let's say for me, whenever I was probably... I think I was 12 years old, I started my first kind of web development company. I thought it was really cool as an HTML, CSS, PHP, all that good stuff that just all that jazz.

Lucas P. Johnson: I was young. I was... I felt like I was on top of the world and I was doing stuff that other people, my age weren't. And I genuinely thought that that was going to help me become successful in my future, but 16 came around. I looked at that and I said, "Oh, heck I don't want to do that. That's too much work. That's too much coding. I don't want to sit there on a computer all day and type away. That's not what I see myself doing." So my differential there is what my success looked like when I was 12 to 16 or my 16 to 21, or my 21 to 25 and so forth is going to be completely different based off of the factors that have been played on you. I'll pass it back to the Paddy to add anything that.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah, just like you're saying, as I was explaining earlier, it's those little stages and I like to call them atomic stages of success. I made that up right now, but it makes perfect sense. Something atomic or something microscopic that you can't really see both adds up in the long run. So those little atomic successes that you go through your entire life and you achieve them. You tick them off your box as a little bucket list, you know? They kind of add to the whole of being successful, but as you mentioned, being successful right now, it's different than being successful in a years or two years time. But then again, you also have to look at including all those little atomic successes that we achieved. There's always this one bigger goal that we set upon ourselves.

Patryk Labuzek: I don't know about you Lucas, but for me for instance, that goal is... What I said kind of in the start of this, when you asked me about defining success, it's being able to work freely on things that I love without any external factors influencing me or pushing me away from what I really love to do. So I do... I'd love to continue with what we're doing right now, continue with my blog, all that bringing certain source of income, just enough to survive and maybe being able to live in a place like Bali, for instance, you know?

Patryk Labuzek: I'm not saying sitting on the beach the entire day or in a jacuzzi or anything like that, but living somewhere that you're content with where you're at the given time and right now, I feel like Bali is probably one of my favorite places on earth, outside of Australia, of course that I feel that's what I like. That's what success is to me and how about yourself Lucas? What's your kind of bigger goal towards being successful?

Lucas P. Johnson: And you were... I mean, you were truly happy too. When you... When Paddy's in his natural habitat and I like to say that out in the wild, Paddy out in the wild. He does things that he normally wouldn't do. I mean, whenever we get together, most of the time we're just going on adventures. That's the kind of friendship we have. We're so close. I mean, we're best friends pretty... I mean, we are best friends. We're like brothers.

Patryk Labuzek: We are, yeah.

Lucas P. Johnson: And the thing is when it comes down to it, it's like you can have a different kind of personality personally and professionally, but you got to find that happy medium that I guess brings you back to... Don't fake it til you make it. You really, you don't have to fake it till you make it because people want to see the authentic you. People want to see you as the person that you truly are. They want to see you as a transparent individual. They want to be able to have a conversation with you and say, "Oh yeah, he's being legit. All right, cool." That's, that's where we are in our point in life is people have gotten to that point where they're not necessarily being authentic. Don't fake it till you make it, be you, define your own success. Go out and have fun and enjoy your life and make those mistakes. Have regrets.

Lucas P. Johnson: That's why we only have one life, that YOLO phrase that came out of nowhere. It's still alive somehow, that phrase is still alive. YOLO. You only live once, go out and do something crazy, have fun. I'm not saying jump off a cliff or anything crazy, crazy. I'm saying if you have that crush, don't just... don't let it just be a crush. Go up and have a conversation with that person. And I like to think that every time that we have these episodes, that we actually take away something from them as well, because they're unscripted. So we're having this conversation, we're having a discussion and we hope that it's applicable to you. We hope that you're able to get some takeaways from our content here, but the best part about it is all of this is new to us, but it's also... it's part of the journey. It's part of us coming out and figure out who we are as well as trying to figure out who we can make become.

Lucas P. Johnson: So defining our success in my life... I guess pivoting back to the question you asked, what does success look like in my life?

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah. What's the big goal that would make you feel that you're successful.

Lucas P. Johnson: So I like to live life by three components; faith, family, and friends. I think that if I could encompass all of those into my life on a daily basis, I've been successful. If I can get up every morning and thank God that I'm alive and every night say my prayers and wish for... Pray for another day and my family being healthy, them being happy, then I'm happy and my friends. I mean, they bring joy and happiness to me. I don't necessarily kind of live off the energy and that happiness they have, but when I'm with them, make some incredible memories. And for me, I guess, going back to the travel part too is I love traveling. I don't know anyone that really doesn't love to travel to new destinations. There are people that they just don't like to travel. Don't get me wrong. But people like seeing new things. They're like, "Okay, that's something new. Let's try it out. It's like a new food, maybe I don't want to eat it, but it's new." It's something that we can re we can't necessarily relate with, but we develop a new memory.

Lucas P. Johnson: So going back to travel, if I could truly be successful, I would be able to enjoy every single second of my life doing the things I love; faith, family, friends, traveling the world and being able to kind of make an income and be able to enjoy every single second of that day. So that's me. I don't know what makes you, you and I guess Paddy, we can kind of take an approach here of looking at it like this, where... Ask yourself right now these questions, where am I right now in my life? Am I happy? Am I my definition of success? Is it truly success? Is it that going back to the point, success is becoming one's true best self achieving one's potential. Are you really achieving your potential? Do you truly feel like you are in the best point in your life? Best circumstances, are you doing everything you can to better yourself?

Lucas P. Johnson: If you're not, let's be real. You're not necessarily being successful, but hey, who am I to judge? I have my own definition of success and I'm opening up to a new way of thinking every single day, because that's what we have to do as humans. Paddy, what do you think about... say for example, someone works a job at a fast food chain, and then you have someone that works a white collar job, they're in a business professional of some sorts, okay? Who's defying success in those circumstances? Who's to define the success for those two different groups? What do you think?

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah. Well you know people judge us on every aspect of our lives with everything that we do. Like we said earlier, our parents, teachers, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, your bosses and all that kind of stuff so for a person who walks in the white collar, the person who works at a fast food restaurant might not entirely be successful in their personal view, but that's it. We each want... Each one of us has a different perspective on success. When we talked about your perspective is a little bit different to mine. There are some similarities, but yet, there are still different views on how we see success. So it's the same in that two cases that you mentioned.

Patryk Labuzek: So for the person working in the fast food chain, it might not be their dream job, but maybe they are fulfilled with their family. They have kids, their family's healthy. They get to see them very often. They don't have financial problems, whereas the person that white collar might be in debt. They might have a family member who is critically sick in hospital, things like that. So even though it looks like that person in the white collar has better job, better pay job, better maybe opportunities at the job, doesn't certainly mean that he is successful. We might see him as being successful but is he successful? That's up to him to define for himself.

Lucas P. Johnson: That's a great point. I think that we have kind of stumbled upon something really great right there. We have two different... Well similar views, but two different perspectives. That person that's in the white collar... he has a white collar job, he's a business professional of some sort, he could be loving life. He could be doing everything right. Could I have someone at the fast food chain working, loving life, doing things great. He's enjoying it, that's his definition of success. You stumble upon how people live their lives and you judge them. I'm not saying you Paddy, I'm saying that we, as a group, we, as a collective, we judge people and we have that unconscious bias. I wish we didn't. But for some reason, if someone is different, acts different, looks different, People have a perspective. They may not always make it known, but they may have a bias. They may look at different situations and just... Wow.

Lucas P. Johnson: That's, I guess going back to success, we have biases on what success looks like in our lives. I necessarily wouldn't want to work at a fast food chain, but I could be happy. I could be successful and it's all about defining those micro goals, those little goals that define each day. Did I... Was I able to get up in the morning? Was I able to make my bed? Was I able to... I kind of just stumble upon different goals in your life that make you happy, and at the end of the day, did I complete them? For me... Paddy, I don't know about you, but for me, I get up every morning, I make my bed and that is check done. I have already completed my first goal of the day. I am now happy I can go to bed. I got a bed that's made. I got all my fancy little pillows on there. Did I say that right? Pillows, pillows, pillows.

Patryk Labuzek: Pillows. Yeah. Well Lucas, what you're saying there, I think that the goes to... I was recently reading a book it's called Atomic Habits. Highly recommend that to everyone It's a great book, gives you a very good perspective on how habits shape our lives or how we can come up with new habits for ourselves that will shape our life in a better or worse way, depending what these habits may be. And what you're saying there a kind of relates to the chapter that I read in the book just recently about you get up, you make your bed and you feel like "Man, I did it. I'm happy. I did it. I can move on to the next step, to the next thing on my list to do, you know?

Patryk Labuzek: For us, people... our lives have been always structured in a certain way. And that's been brought up through school. You wake up at seven, you eat your breakfast, you leave for school at eight, all of that stuff. You do your math, you do your history, you do your English, all that kind of stuff. It has a set time of the day. You have the complete at certain task in order to move forward. So our life is very structured. It's that kind of a timetable and we get used to it very easily, so we want to see ourselves pushing that, pushing that... I see it as a kind of a load bar, you know? You're at zero when you wake up in the morning and then when you go to bed, you're at a hundred and you want to get as close as completing all these tasks, getting to your 100 and the closer you are, you feel fulfillment.

Patryk Labuzek: I don't know if you get this, but I certainly do that when I make a list for myself, all the things I have to do and there's a lot of other things that come up during the day that have to be done as well. Ticking them off one by one, one by one makes you kind of happier that you get it on an over with, whether or not it's even doing the dishes or something, that's very enjoyable to you like doing a podcast episode or playing a video game or watching Netflix or something like that. It's kind of that little tick beside the tasks that you just completed makes you push us forward like reaching that 100%. And... yeah.

Lucas P. Johnson: Paddy-

Patryk Labuzek: It's those little things, those atomic habits that we do. They kind of shape... They shape who we become in a sense and also, they shape how we see our success, you know?

Lucas P. Johnson: Do you find yourself though... Sitting there and you're ticking the boxes, but you're just... It's just another checked box. Do you ever find yourself doing that? Because I've been there. That's why I'm asking. For example today, I'm just going to give a brief context to that. I was going through and I didn't sleep very well last night. I can be authentic and tell you that I didn't sleep very well, probably got two and a half hours of sleep last night. I still have a personality when I give her a little sleep, but I got up in the morning. I have a very set regiment, very set routine, just because if... because I like to have... especially when you start something you like to kind of get yourself started. I think I told you about, I got into church and all this stuff.

Lucas P. Johnson: So of all these things I have to check off, those check boxes for the , get up this morning, I look at the clock like, "Oh gosh, I need to go to bed. I need to go back to bed." But no, can't do that. I got to be up before 10:00 AM. I actually got to get before 9:00 AM. That's kind of just the way I... 8:00 AM preferably, but got to be up before 10. I was up 9:00 AM I look at the clock again? I go, "Oh man, I need to go back to bed I'm miserable." Going through, Okay get up. Make my bed, check today's Monday. Got to do my weigh in, check. Done. Got to do my measurements, check. Done. Make my breakfast, check. Done. Okay, see how the emotion, there's no emotion attached to that? I found myself at the point where we're recording this episode and I look at my day and I think okay, series of check marks, a series of your sprints, we're supposed to be running a marathon, not a sprint, but your little sprints for the day.

Lucas P. Johnson: I got to the got to this episode... or no, as we're getting ready to record this and I sat down and I go, "Man, these last three episodes are going to be so much better than today's episode. They'll be so much better than our next episode or two." When you start putting those kind of... Bringing those altogether and you start really allowing your fear and your negative thoughts come into play, you define your day. Going back to the question I asked you, Paddy, have you ever been there and you had those little check marks, those little check boxes complete for the day and just felt like, "Okay, it's another thing. That's another thing to do today."

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah, completely, completely. I've been there. I feel like all of us have been there at some point of our lives, or maybe we are there right now, just ticking off those boxes, doing this, doing that and your weeks pass. They turn into months, they turn into years and we're kind of losing the precious time that's very limited. So it's worth sitting down sometime and thinking about the priorities in your life. It's thinking about, "Do I need to do this task right now? What, what will make me happy?" Rather than waking up 10 minutes earlier, just to run to your car to go somewhere. Maybe it's worth staying in bed for five minutes longer. And this is going to give you this sense of fulfillment again that "Oh man, I'm happy that I did that." You have energy to go to the next check on your list.

Patryk Labuzek: But I definitely was there, going back to your question, I definitely was there. I was just ticking those boxes, going through the day, doing it one by one, one by one, until I came upon this book, the Atomic Habits sometime ago, the author explains very, very well that we make little habits for ourselves, those atomic little habits. We tick them off one by one, but it's important that we reward ourselves or we... By completing a certain task, we give ourselves a little something that's going to make us happy.

Patryk Labuzek: So for instance, after I make my bed or awake off five minutes early, I know I have those five minutes extra to make a good cup of coffee and love-

Lucas P. Johnson: Oh Paddy loves a good cup of joe.

Patryk Labuzek: I definitely love I be with cup of coffee. I enjoy the smell of coffee in the morning. The tastes of it, you know? A strong espresso.

Lucas P. Johnson: He loves his coffee. He loves it. I'm sorry. crosstalk Paddy. He gets coffee every time we go to a different country, the first thing is "We need to get coffee. Okay. Okay. Let's find a good coffee shop Paddy."

Patryk Labuzek: That's right, and it's knowing what you like to do, knowing what makes you happy and putting on those little happy times in between our mundane tasks kind of gives us... I don't know, a sense of hope? I guess a sense of we're doing something right.

Lucas P. Johnson: I like that you kind of define micro... I don't even know what to call micro goals, micro happiness, check marks. I don't actually know what to call it. I'm sure that there's actually a term for this. And so I'm sure someone has termed this.

Patryk Labuzek: There has to be.

Lucas P. Johnson: Yeah, but you look at the things that are going to make you happy and I think that's really great. I don't think I know, that's awesome. If you can find a way to be happy and Paddy, I think me and you have pretty similar... I was going to say personality more of kind of just the way we live our lives. We don't always... we don't look at the negatives. I mean hell, everyone has those moments where all those negative thoughts come in.

Patryk Labuzek: Completely, yeah.

Lucas P. Johnson: That happens. But kind of going back to your topic is... not the topic, but your book, Atomic Habits. We find ourselves kind of in positions that we don't always want to be in. We don't. Defining success for ourselves is not something we truly kind of understand until we're maybe 14 to 16 in that range where you have to start deciding what you're going to do for your future. Where you have to decide your primary education days, are you going to get good grades and go to college and those, your year one through four, freshmen through senior year of high school, I know are similar in Europe.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah.

Lucas P. Johnson: You get these grades and you're... Someone assigns a GPA to you. Assigning a GPA to someone is... Okay, I get it, you got to figure out who's going to go to these schools. I get it. I understand. I completely understand. I went to Penn state and I'm... you went to a highly prestigious school in Ireland. I don't know necessarily if I can say I learned a ton my college days, but I can say that I've made some incredible memories. I've made some really, really amazing friends and I've built life long connections that are going to help me for the rest of my life. Lifelong, that's a term, lifelong. Defining success for your future. Primary education days, year one through four. That's where we kind of been engraved.

Lucas P. Johnson: I mean, even going back before that you play sports or if you're in karate, you have goals, you have to hit those or you're not going to go to the next level. You're not going to make it. Okay, cool. You're not going to get promoted to the next level. Okay. That's understandable. But you really got to define yourself by the actions you take to better yourself and better your community and better your life. The people around you are just as important, don't let success be the thing that puts a wedge between you and the people, because when you let that happen, man you are missing out on so much value, so many connections and you are missing out on the best times of your life.

Lucas P. Johnson: Paddy, if I sat in my dorm... It wasn't really a dorm whenever I was in Australia. When I was... If I would have sat in my apartment and never left, you know what would have never happened? Me and you would have never became best friends. We would have never became brothers.

Patryk Labuzek: No, never and that's exactly what I was just thinking about before you even mentioned that is that we might have a goal, a certain perspective of our success, which might be getting the best grades in our degree, you know? That's great, you do you get those grades, but I feel like sitting there every day for X amount of hours studying, and yes, it's important. Education is very important and there's no denying that it's important, but what's more important I feel like is being able to balance. Balance all those aspects in our life. So balancing, reaching our full potential, but at the same time, not missing out on those very important aspects of our lives, which are friendships, which are extra curricular activities. They're all at the end, they define who we are and maybe they don't seem like they're pushing you towards your perspective of success.

Patryk Labuzek: But I feel like in the end, things tie around anyway and something that you might not see to be of any use right now, might come very useful in the near future, or the person that you meet might end up being your boss. Having a good contact with that person is definitely of value to you later on in your life,, but you just never know. So doing extra stuff, going outside of your boundaries, going outside of your comfort zone, tackling new challenges and just enjoying yourself from time to time is definitely worth it.

Lucas P. Johnson: That's important. Enjoy yourself, enjoy everything that you're doing.

Patryk Labuzek: I completely agree, but I would like to add there that maybe... in your definition of success, job isn't really what defines it. So it might be just as well family, or it might be moving abroad to this particular country that you loved and it doesn't matter. So for instance, "Oh man, I want to move to USA." Great. If you're going to achieve that, but you still work in a fast food restaurant or you work as a factory worker or something that maybe have the degree, but you're not using it right now, but still you're happy because you achieved that you wanted, you know? So it's again, look at the perspective of each of our successes and they're all different.

Lucas P. Johnson: God, I love this show. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. And the reason why Paddy is because there's so many things that just come out of nowhere, just so many things. I mean, we talk about-

Patryk Labuzek: [crosstalk 00:35:37].

Lucas P. Johnson: We talk about random stuff that relates back to a topic based off experience. Different perspectives, different ideas of what success means and I love every single idea, every single understanding, every single definition of what success is. But when we go back to it, success is becoming one's true best self, achieving one's potential. And I didn't say that that is a quote from someone else. Just let's clarify that is someone else's quote "Success is becoming one's true best self, achieving one's potential." If you are becoming one's true best self you have now done, what makes you happy. What makes you and your understanding what success is. You're becoming your one's true best self, achieving one's potential. That's the other component.

Lucas P. Johnson: Are you sitting at home being a couch potato? Right now, yes. Are you working every single day? Paying the bills, all that stuff that I guess you have to do. Cool. Yeah. Cool. You're achieving one's potential. Cool, but again, it's all comes down to how you define it. So I think there's a lot we could really go into and this is one of those topics that I'm now just kind of really starting to understand that you... there's some PC involved, politic... Oh my gosh. Political... Being politically correct. Yeah, that's it. Yeah.

Lucas P. Johnson: There's some kind of form of that within this topic. And those are the topics that can become a little bit overwhelming, but at the end of the day, you define your success. You have to do the things that are going to make you happy. They're going to allow you to fulfill your wants true best potential. Your one's true potential. So bringing it back and kind of close with this. Paddy said it best, things are not as beautiful as you always think. Every single episode that we will ever do is going to relate that, things are not as beautiful as you always think.

Lucas P. Johnson: You may look at someone's success and think they are having the best, best time in their life. They're doing everything perfect. They got that giant house, that boat, that nice car, they got tons of cash. Is their family life good? Do they have a lot of friends to go out and drive this cars with? Or go on the boat, do all that, do they ever have... Go to parties? Do they ever get to do things that are actually going to make them happy outside of those materialistic things? Things are not as beautiful as you always think, remember that. Success is what you define it to be, but always remember that you are worthy of whatever you decide to do.

Lucas P. Johnson: And Paddy and I, we love you. We are so happy that you joined us today on this kind of politically correct, kind of not politically correct topic, but we're so excited that you joined us and we really, really do wish that you join us on the next episode. Please go ahead and subscribe to this podcast, Project Dream Mastery and we will see you on next week's topic. Why don't you do more? It's going to be really great. So that said, we hope that you have a fantastic rest of your day and we look forward to seeing you in the next episode to come.