PDM 029: Caught Wishing Away Your Life, Uncover The Ultimate Way to Dominate Every Moment of Your Life Moving Forward

Lucas P. Johnson: Every moment of our life, we are constantly thinking about what is next. What is the next best thing as a human race, we keep ourselves up at night wondering and dreaming about what's next. We literally dream about the future or sometimes the past. It's crazy to think that when it actually comes, we aren't ready or we even wish we were onto the next phase of our life. So what is keeping you up at night? 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: Patryk, it is wild to think about every time that we are in our lives, we want to take a next step in another direction. It might be after we graduate from high school, graduate from college, graduate from all these things in our life, taking those next steps. But as a kid, we dreamed about those moments. We dreamed about what was next. We thought about what we would do in those moments and we took the steps to achieve them whether that's taking the SATs here in the U.S. And like, oh, I got to get a perfect score. And then you get into college and you're so excited. You go through this four years, but by the fourth year, you're like, oh, I can't wait to make adult money. It's really, really wild to think that we're always wishing for the next best thing that we forget that there's so much to offer in the moment. So how often do you get stuck in those thoughts at night where you're thinking about, what can I do next? What can I do next? What can I do next?

Patryk Labuzek: Well, I think, I'd like to think that we are all dreamers, you know, especially us here on this show and our viewers. I feel like we're all a big community of dreamers and dream walkers as you like to call it. And we dream quality dreams, high. You know, we have high expectations. You have unbelievable, unbelievable dreams. You know, we see ourselves successful, loved and surrounded by the perfect tribe. And all of those dreams are quality, quality, quality. And we shoot for the stars. Sky's not the limit. And that's a beautiful thought that we try to repeat over and over in Project Dream Mastery. However, it's important to pause and think that maybe we are living the dream right now. We constantly dream about the future, like you mentioned, Lucas, at the start. We imagine what our future might be, what we need to do to achieve our goals. Where are we going to be tomorrow? What are we going to do next week, next month? What are we going to do when coronavirus is over and we can freely travel again, see our friends and families? But we don't take that pause in our life to think maybe we are living the dream right now that we dreamed of two years ago.

Lucas P. Johnson: We're all dream walkers, man. It's, you're right. We are as I call dream walkers. Because at night we wake up and sometimes we have this brilliant idea about what's next. But as you said there, and it's really relevant to now, sometimes we get caught off guard in thinking about what's next, but really we should be focusing on what's now. Have you thought about over the last, I hate to say this, but over the last year, being in this whole lockdown and quarantine and COVID, how much time we've had to spend with those that we love, whether that's your kids, whether that's your wife or significant other, whether that's your family that you are in close proximity with on different occasions? You've had more time than you probably have had ever to sit down and just enjoy the time with those people. But so many of us are wishing away life or wishing, dreaming of the next best thing to come because we don't really understand that those moments we have right now are a true representation of who we are.

Lucas P. Johnson: They're allowing us to be better, do better, see better. The moments are changing us. But we're wishing for the next best thing. Sometimes we just catch ourselves off guard thinking about it and other times it's way too relevant. So if you're like me and you didn't have a chance to sit back and really look at what you did over the last year until one Sunday you're listening to something, whether it's the podcast, Project Dream Mastery, or whether it's another podcast or whether it's a church service that's being streamed, which is kind of a new thing. I mean it's been around for a while, but it's more of a new thing. And you start to think like, all right, maybe this year hasn't been that bad. What have I done? What have I achieved? Maybe some of you have started a business. Maybe you started a podcast. Maybe you found the love of your life through a dating app or maybe you just restored a relationship that has been so distant for so long. Maybe you found love again to the people that were already there. Paddy, over the last year, what has happened in your life that if you were being asked this question in this moment, are you proud of, are you grateful for, and how has it shaped you and shaped your future?

Patryk Labuzek: See, if you told me two years ago that we're going to be in such a situation as right now, I would have never believed you. I mean we've lived such rapid, rapid lives. And I feel like from year to year, it just became faster and faster. And we're chasing after those perfect grades in college and then that perfect interview and then that perfect job and then try to keep that job and so on and so forth. And the pace just increased and increased and increased. And if you told me that we're going to, in a matter of few months, we got to be stuck in our house for a year in lockdown, not being able to fly away, sometimes see our relatives, friends, not going to be able to go to a shop or a bar to catch a drink, I'd be like, man, you're crazy. Like that's apocalyptic. That's what we see in the Hollywood films. It doesn't happen in real life. But here we are. So just because of COVID, my mindset shifted. It shifted that the impossible is possible, nothing is impossible, and that we should always expect the unexpected. And that's a beautiful thought, expect the unexpected. Who knows what's just around the corner? Who knows what's going to happen when we open the new door and new opportunities, new experiences, new people that we meet?

Patryk Labuzek: And I've done things this year that I haven't done before. I've connected to more and more people online. And I'm a very social person, as you know, and I appreciate eye-to-eye contact. I appreciate meeting friends, meeting new people out in the club, in the bar on the beach, wherever it may be while traveling. But what was important to me was that physical contact. But I found that it's also possible to achieve the same if not greater relationship online. And that's how my mindset shifted from last year to now. And not only that, I mean I've been starting to doing things differently as well. I've been taking things easier. I've had time to pause and think about my life as we mentioned in few of the previous episodes. It gave us time that allowed me to just analyze things.The time has slowed down, not as much as I'd like compared to other people. I'm still going through my office job.

Patryk Labuzek: I'm still going to the office, first of all. I don't do remote. And that's a blessing and a curse at the same time. I mean I'd love to just be in my bed at 8:00 AM, open my laptop, do the work that I have to do and just live a cozy life. But at the same time, waking up at 8:00 AM, preparing my breakfast, driving to work, going to work, going to the actual office keeps you motivated. It keeps me sane. I can actually see people, not just my room, those four walls. So directly, it impacted my life. Indirectly, it impacted how I think. It made me think outside the box, the whole COVID situation. Like I'm thinking, well, I've never tried dating apps. Maybe it's the right time to do it. I mean everybody's on it now. Where else are you going to meet, you know, your other half these days?

Patryk Labuzek: And that's one thing. Secondly I'm getting inspired by more content online. I'm exploring new people. I'm seeing new things out there, whereas before I would just travel and do that while I'm on the road or, you know, collaborating with someone. Whereas now it all shifted into the virtual world. So things are so, so different. And I'm proud, going back to your question, I'm proud of how I was able to come to terms with what is happening and how I've been able to adapt and how I've been able to develop and never stop even though everything right now in our communities is pulling us backwards. Literally everything. We're still being, we're still able to go forward. I mean and that goes across multiple, multiple things. I mean our podcast is shooting up right now. And we're a world away basically from each other, the time difference and all that kind of stuff. And the COVID doesn't make it any easier. As you know, I'd like to go on the first flight, come over to Charlotte and do a one-to-one podcast recording--

Lucas P. Johnson: That would be insane, yeah.

Patryk Labuzek: If we were in 2019. I would catch the first flight over and, you know, that's it. You'd be like, come over on the weekend. Done. Like I'm there. Maybe our listeners don't know, but we did record an episode about being spontaneous and how that can be a very positive in your life and allows you to go outside of your boundaries. And as much as my job is kind of framed and it's, you know, well settled, I know what I'm doing and all that kind of stuff, at heart, I'm a very, very, very spontaneous person, as you know. I mean I just need a little spark. I just need this little flame and then that's it. I'm off. I'm going. So--

Lucas P. Johnson: What I find amazingly though, Paddy, is the creativity that comes along with that. You're adapting. You're saying, you know, what you're speaking is the truth. You're not someone that just says it and then goes your separate way. Your words mean something because you're actually living them and you adapt to the situations. And for some, it's really difficult. It's difficult to adapt. I mean it's crazy.

Patryk Labuzek: That's completely understandable. There's different kinds of people and some are just comfy in their comfort zone. And everybody is. The whole name, comfort zone. You're comfy within that square. Going outside of it, you know, not so much. But some people cope better than others. And like you're saying, the whole shift in our society and what's going on right now, it takes a toll on a lot of people. I know people who, you know, their mental health drastically dropped. And I'm not gonna lie. My mental health dropped as well, especially during the second lockdown because I'm just going to, before saying this, I'm just going to put it out there that it's perfectly fine to talk about your feelings, what you feel, that you've been down. I mean we're only human and, you know, sharing these things out loud is important to get it out there.

Patryk Labuzek: So and we talked about this, Lucas. I've been down during the second lockdown here in Ireland, and I was somewhere in summer 2020. I mean the first lockdown passed and I was like, okay, that's a one-off thing. We're going to be back up and running. And so I'm going to be able to see all my friends. Then second lockdown came along and I was just miserable, you know, miserable in the sense that I knew that everything's closed. Am I going to be able to see my parents? It's summertime. Or my parents and my friends. It's summertime here in Ireland, the only time when the weather is actually good to go outside. I'm not going to be able to do any of it. You know, I'm not going to be able to go on my road trips or travel abroad as much as I love. So I've been down. But I was reading books. I was educating myself. I've put the time into Always Somewhere and I've put time into PDM, as you know. We did a lot of work during those few months in lockdown. And then I feel that afterwards, I've been reborn like a Phoenix from the ashes if I can put this in a metaphor. But that's how I feel. Things shifted. I adapted and I'm very proud of it. But going back to what we were saying, a lot of people find it very hard to adapt.

Lucas P. Johnson: They find it hard to adapt. We find it hard to adapt. Not every situation is meant to be adapted to. And it's okay to be put in a position where you don't want to adapt. That's completely okay. In fact, that's why we're human. We all have our own abilities to make decisions. And one thing that stood out that you said way back was shooting for perfection. Too often, we're trying to do everything perfect or trying to make everything just, just right. And it catches up with us. It's part of wishing away life, you know, going onto that next phase of life. We're shooting for perfection so we can get that college education, that college degree. We want to shoot for perfection so we can get that A on that exam. But it takes away from all that time in our life that maybe we could have went out and made some memories with some people. You know, we shoot for perfection in our job because we want that promotion.

Lucas P. Johnson: We shoot for perfection in our family life because we want to have people that love us and they want to be there for us every moment of the day. We want to do things so people don't dislike us. We shoot for perfection way too often when really we're human. And even though there's points in our life where we're shooting for perfection, even in COVID like you were saying, you want to show people that you're okay, you're healthy, that everything is going, everything's sane up there. We're not always sane. We make irrational decisions. We make some really idiotic decisions too, especially during COVID. But the thing is, man, we're not perfect. And we shouldn't always be shooting for perfection. It's okay to let our guard down because that next phase of your life, you're going to be learning from those mistakes, yes. What you'll learn later down that those shooting for perfection moments, they were great. They helped to get where you were. They're also what told you and taught you that it's okay to just be authentic and be you.

Patryk Labuzek: Completely. And when you mentioned shooting for perfection, the first thing that came to my mind from my own personal experience was when I was doing a bit of research about blogging. I've never done a blog before in my life before Always Somewhere. Not one. I mean even before Australia, I traveled quite a lot. And my close friends were saying, man, you should take pictures, you should record it, you should put it out there. A lot of people would find it very, very, very helpfuliIf I did such a thing. I was like, ah, you know, I'm not this person. I'm not that. I was always making excuses because at the back of my head, I knew I wasn't able to do it. And I was always shooting for perfection. We all are. I was no different.

Patryk Labuzek: So I was like, nah, it's not for me. I don't know how to do it. And that was okay. Then, you know, Australia happened, came back from the international exchange. That really opened my mind. And more people told me, yeah, you should do it. I mean as you know, we did quite a bit of traveling during our time abroad as well and we had such beautiful memories. I was thinking, it would actually be selfish not to share. So I got home and I was doing some research about blogging. And the number one rule is, do not be perfect because you're never going to put stuff out there. I mean what you think is perfect today is not going to be perfect for you tomorrow because you learn. And if we were supposed to continuously shoot for perfection, we would never do anything because our content or whatever we do would never be good enough.

Lucas P. Johnson: That's so true. Hey, did you ever see that ad where the guy's on the skateboard and he's drinking the cranberry juice as he's on it?

Patryk Labuzek: No, maybe it's American.

Lucas P. Johnson: They ended up getting him a truck and filled it with all this juice. And I'm sitting there like, all right. I wonder what gave this guy inspiration just to record himself on a skateboard, drinking the juice. And he goes, well, Gary Vaynerchuk says, just put your content out there. Just do it. Don't even think about it. Just click it. Get it out in the world because you never know what might just take off. And how true is that? If you put your content in that world, if you put yourself out into the world, what just might happen? I think one of the big things for us here is building on relationships but also also cultivating connections. And we'll talk about that in another episode. But it is really crucial to find people in your life that are going to be there for you. And when you're in those moments where you're wishing away what's currently going on for something better, think about it.

Lucas P. Johnson: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. And in those moments, you'll come out the Phoenix rising from the ashes, as Paddy just said. Really crazy to think about it that way. But it's also amazing to see what we can do when we are put into a tough situation, when we're faced with a tough situation, whether that's focalizing it to someone superior to you. Not superior, but up the hierarchy, whether it's in your job, whether that's in your friend group and just saying, I'm done, I'm out. I don't want any more of you. I can't do this anymore, guys. You're not good for me. What if that's your family? Putting a barrier or maybe coming closer?

Lucas P. Johnson: What you can do when you make the decisions on your own and stop wishing away life and start living in the moment. I actually was reading something this morning on Instagram. I do jump on there. Maybe it was Facebook. And it was just a bunch of people with their phones out as there was a parade going on. And it's funny because there was a parade going on. So this must've been back in 2019 or beginning of 2020. And this one lady, she was elder and she was sitting there watching it, living in the moment. And Paddy, guess what was happening around her? Every single person had their phone out, recording it. They weren't living in the moment. They were going to live it in the future.

Patryk Labuzek: A hundred percent. It's funny that you mentioned it because just this very morning when I was eating my breakfast, my housemate came in making his breakfast and we have a little speaker there, or not a little--we a good speaker actually because we love our music in our dining room. And he blasted some old school EDM from like 2002, 2003, 2004, a concert. And there was a music video or, you know, a video from that concert attached with the music. And it was drastically different than what we see today. As in people, none of them, not a single person had a phone in their hand. People were enjoying the moment, living the moment, enjoying the music. It was a sight to be honest. Because now when you look at videos, you just see everybody there with a flashlight, a phone in their hand, taking pictures, taking videos. And I'm not saying it's a bad thing. You know, we've got all this technology so we can store our memories and look back to them, show to our grandchildren in 50 years' time. But are we living and enjoying the moment? Or are we thinking about the future and not enjoying the present? That made me think. That made me stop eating my breakfast and think because I thought it was just so powerful how things have shifted from within merely 20, less than 20 years, how we as humans have shifted from living in the moment to living in the future.

Lucas P. Johnson: Yeah. And just so happens that with every new phone release, they add another camera.

Patryk Labuzek: Very true.

Lucas P. Johnson: We go from living in the moment to living through the lens. And it's really saddening that we're living like that. Because as we said in our trailer, the best moments in life happen when you're faced with talking and communicating with people and you're faced with meeting new people, having new experiences. You never know what questions might arise that give you the answer you may not be looking for. It so happens to come right in front of you.

Patryk Labuzek: See, from my own experience, I've seen it countless times at this point. And I'm very happy that I do see it because some people don't seem to notice it. It's when I put my phone down, my camera down, my equipment down when I'm traveling and I just sit there, that's when I enjoy the moment and that's when I create real memories. I find that when I record, take pictures, you know, edit them, put them out there that the memory is a bit blurry because I don't pay attention to my surroundings. I don't pay attention to the moment that I'm in, how beautiful it is, how unique it is and how it's never going to happen again. I look at it through a lens. And I forget that myself, you know, that we should be living for the moment. We should never be living for the future. Future is in the future. There's no point living in the future, if that makes sense. Our nature is to live in the present. I mean like from back when we were all cavemen, the only thing we were looking at is, oh, what am I going to eat? Now I need to find food. I need to find shelter. I need to build a fire. I wasn't thinking, tomorrow am I going to find food or have fire or a cave to sleep in. No, we were thinking about the present. And I feel our lives were much fuller. And I see it from my travel experience. Like when we went to Bali, for instance. Every moment was beautiful. And maybe it was beautiful because I didn't take as many pictures or I didn't take as many videos, even though we still created content. I'm not denying that. But I definitely did less of it. And now when I think back to that trip, I have so many more fond memories than I do from other trips that I've only focused on looking through the lens.

Lucas P. Johnson: Oh wow. Yeah. Sometimes it just makes you speechless at what some people will have to say. When you truly listen and you hear them, that's you living in the moment. A lot of times we're recording these episodes, I forget that we're recording them. Because most of the time, we have conversations that stem from just little things in our lives, like sitting on a scooter in Bali and watching someone fall, face plant into the ground. If I was looking at that through a lens when it happened, I don't know if I would've been there to go help the person up. Because my brain is saying, all right, we gotta get this. You know how many times you look on Facebook or you look on social media, any sorts, TikTok, and instead of people going and helping someone else, they're recording the moment that it's happening and letting it happen to the other person. Even sometimes it might be staged. It just makes you think like, all right, what can we do to be better? Because we are supposed to be good humans. We grew up with the golden rule. Do something, treat people the way you would want to be treated.

Lucas P. Johnson: Sticks and stones don't break my bones. We have so much to offer this life. We have so much to offer this world. And it is not in these moments where we wish away life or we get things done. We've got to live in the moment to follow our vision, to follow our dreams. Paddy, I wish we could be traveling and doing those things because we were so bummed out. We were so excited. We had all of these things that we were living in the moment. And I ask our listeners, what are you doing right now to live in the moment? If you're driving right now, are you paying attention to the road and looking around at all the beauty that surrounds you? If you're in the office, are you paying attention to the document that you're working on? Or maybe the Netflix you're watching on the other screen?

Lucas P. Johnson: Are you living in the moment? Because if you are, you'll realize that those memories are the ones that truly stick. They're the ones that you remember. Because the ones that are being recorded, your brain is just like, I don't have to. I don't have to remember that because something else is doing it for me. The one thing that we did when we were in almost all of the places we went to, even though we had the camera recording, we were never focused on the camera. We were focused on the people surrounding us because every single memory, every single destination we went to, the memory' there. Living in the moment is a game changer.

Lucas P. Johnson: So what are you doing right now? Are you wishing away life? Are you living in the moment? Don't get stuck. Don't get stuck. It's not a hard question. Are you living in the moment? Are you wishing away life? There's so much more to life if you just give it a second to breathe. Paddy, when you get stuck thinking about what's next, I'm sure you're probably thinking about it a lot more now that this is the topic for today. When you get stuck thinking about what's about to happen next, whether your next travel because we do talk about that quite a bit. We talk about our travels, where we want to go, all of the things we're excited about. You ever just take a step back and think, all right, why don't we book it a week before? Why don't we just say, hey, let's book the trip and be spontaneous? Go onto one of the amazing sites out there called Yes Theory and go to their random generated destination. You click and boom, picks a place for you. Or go on Google and click the spinning thingie. Done.

Patryk Labuzek: Well, let's put it out there. Maybe if I was a millionaire and I had six figures in a bank account, I would do that. If I didn't have to care about the financial side of things, maybe I would just go on Google and be like, click. Oh, Kenya. Fine. Next weekend it is. You know?

Lucas P. Johnson: 3,000 euros please.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah. Or more if you fly first class, for example. But--

Lucas P. Johnson: No judging.

Patryk Labuzek: No, I'm not judging at all. I mean if you have it,great. I mean if you have that amount of money and booking that first-class ticket or going to a random place completely generated gives you pleasure, it makes you be in the moment, do it. I mean you've worked hard for it. Why shouldn't you reward yourself? I'm a true believer of a reward system. I'm a true believer that if you do something right, you should give yourself a little reward. If you work hard for a week, you know, you should give yourself a day to completely chill out and do nothing. Just keeps your head sane. It keeps you sane. It keeps you motivated to do more. But putting that thought aside, even though we are planning our next trips way ahead, like you said, it always happens. I mean like we were planning the USA trip when I was coming over probably seven or eight months before it actually happened. The way I look at it is that I am planning how I create my memories. I'm planning to create memories in whatever place I'm going to. So I don't see this whole plan as living in the future. I'm planning for the future. But when I get there, I try to live in the moment, not the other way around

Lucas P. Johnson: Love that. I love that. One thing that stemmed from that is we question our identity occasionally. And we talked about that in episode 26 I believe. We question our identity so much that when you're trying to figure out where you want to go next, you're like, oh, well, maybe I'm not in the right shape that I need to be in. Maybe, you know, we look at the mirror and say, okay, by June, I need to have my body ready to go. I need to get that six pack or I need to clean up. I need to lose a little bit of weight just so I look good. We're living in the moment, but we're also thinking about the future and wishing for it to come faster. When we're in a middle school and puberty hits, you're like, oh my goodness, all these pimples, all this acne, I can't wait until I'm 18 and I don't have it. Or 20, I don't have acne anymore. But no matter how far away you wish things or how many times you wished them to come and you're wishing away life, it doesn't take, it takes away from those moments that could be made, those memories. And just because you have acne, I'm sure all these other kids have it too. I mean I went through that period of life. Everyone had acne and there's still people that do. And there's nothing wrong with that. But the best part is living in the moment and not letting it take away from the opportunities. Go to the beach. Maybe you're not at the point where you want to be. We have all the time in the world. Live in the moment. Someone's going to judge you. Who cares? Who cares? Stop wishing away time because you'll never get it back.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah. I mean in PDM, we really want to preach that we should all live in the moment. I feel like that's not said enough in the world out there. I mean when you go to, in Ireland, when you go to secondary school and then you want to get into a good college, you have to pass your leaving cert. And from being a freshmen, it's like, you need to get good grades. You need to study because you're constantly thinking about the future. It's like, you need to think about what college you're going to go to, which course you're going to take, where are you seeing yourself in five or 10 years? But I feel like we should all be asking ourselves, where do we see ourselves now? Are we happy right now? Are we doing things that make us happy right now at this very moment? Not are we going to do it in 10 minutes? Are we doing it now? And that's not spread around enough. It's always, what are you going to do next? Where do you see yourself in five, 10 years? What your bucket list should look like to be successful? What habits should you make to be successful within X amount of years? But what can you do now is a real question.

Lucas P. Johnson: If you asked me that on a daily, I should say on the weekly, you'll get one response. Yeah, I kind of want to quit. And you can take a guess of what that part is. But if you're not happy doing what you're doing in your job, your career, the whole nine yards, the package deal that comes along with that, you gotta be, I know you got to think about the future and I get that. I do that all of the time. But I'm a dreamer. Paddy's a dreamer. You listening are a dreamer. And I like to say, you need to be the dream walker. You need to walk your dreams. You need to make them a reality. And it's not going to be a sprint. It's going to be a marathon. That's why you're walking. You're got to take your time to get there. And sometimes that's putting yourself in a position to be able to live the life you want to live. Not wishing away, but taking action now so that as you walk through that journey, you're able to take it to the next level. You're able to get yourself in a position where you are ultimately happy.

Lucas P. Johnson: Project Dream Mastery was not grown overnight. Our listeners did not just come out of the blue. It took, let me think, we're eight months in now, Paddy. And we are just now hitting serious numbers. And it's really, really amazing first off. But it's taken, as they say, Rome wasn't built in a day. It's taken us a long time to achieve it. And if you're in that moment right now, at least you're living it and you know what you want. And if you haven't, sit down. Sit down, fill out your notebook, whether it be your Project Dream Mastery notebook or so forth. Right now.

Patryk Labuzek: Most importantly, get yourself a cup of coffee.

Lucas P. Johnson: Get yourself a cup--

Patryk Labuzek: It has to be concentrate.

Lucas P. Johnson: It depends. Sometimes it gets a little dehydrated. You might something a little stronger. Just take a moment to think about what you want in your life. Because life is short. As Brendan said for master talk said, we all have one thing in common. Time. Time is the enemy. Time is the enemy. Because we all have it in common. Can't fear it. Can't run from it. You can't wish it away.

Patryk Labuzek: You can't buy more of it.

Lucas P. Johnson: Can't buy more of it.

Patryk Labuzek: It doesn't matter what your bank account looks like, how many zeros do you see at the end of it. It doesn't matter. I mean time comes for all of us. And what really matters is how we lived the time given to us, what we did. And I feel like even more importantly is what memories do we bring with us to the other side? I mean what have we actually done in our life? Did we always chase success? Did we always chase money? I mean money surely comes easier or harder for some depending. You know, maybe you're fortunate to be born into a wealthy family. na that sets you up for life straightaway. I mean they say money makes money. Right? But some people have to work very, very hard together. But do you focus only on the materialistic things? Do you focus only on making money? Do you only work hard just to get there? Or do you work hard to earn a comfortable income that you're going to spend on making memories? Because at the end of the day, I definitely believe that memories are like gold. More than gold. They're priceless. You can't put a price on your memories. Those are the moments that you lived through, that you really, really lived through. And they stick with you for the rest of your life.

Lucas P. Johnson: If you look at history, what do we remember? Memories, the things that happened that were were amazing. Like here in the United States, the Declaration of Independence, you know, the Constitution. There's a lot of things that are in the period of time, they were significant. And they still are to who we are, to our culture, to who we are as a country. But most importantly, they were, just now, I wasn't there. You weren't there. And can't go back. It's just the memory. Someone captured it. If we take the time to live in the moment, and as you said, make those memories, we'll truly be wealthy in a different way. I've talked to way too many people over the last few years, especially whenever I was in high school, talking about what it means to have money, what it means to grow up in a different time, learning about them, learning about their past, learning just from them.

Lucas P. Johnson: I mean a lot of mentors, a lot of coaches, we all have to have them. And one thing that I've seen is yes, money is great and it helps you get to places in your life and helps you take you to the next parts of your life. But the most important thing is using it to make those memories, make those things happen in your life, whether that's doing great things for others or whether that's doing some things in your life. Because you can't take it to the grave with you. And even though you can give it to your kids or you can pass it down, you worked for it. Might as well use it to live, to enjoy your life and leave some for your kids and let them work to see what life's for. Taking a minute to think. We don't take enough time. We wish and we dream. Don't we? Way too often,wWe just don't take time.

Lucas P. Johnson: I think that's what I'm scared of. I'm scared, Paddy, of getting to the point where I'm too busy to not think about life, to think about the things that make me happy lately. In fact, I've been so busy lately that I've been working 12, 14 hour days just to get something done for work. And I forget about all these people that are texting me. I still managed to talk to my family but so busy that I forget about the most important things in my life.

Patryk Labuzek: I've been there too.as you are now just a few months before Christmas, that's how my life was. And I'm sure that most of the people who working, they definitely can remember a time in their life that they've just been so, so, so busy that they just didn't have the energy or the time and neglected everything else apart from the work. But you see, the thing is, and I'm going to put it out there, the only reason why I work is that I can travel. That's it. It's as simple as that. The only reason why I work is just because I can travel because traveling is what I do. It's what makes me happy. It's when I create those quality memories for the rest of my life that I can share later with my grandchildren, that can inspire them to do exactly that. Travel, see the world, meet new people, accept different traditions, learn about cultures just so they can open their minds to new possibilities. Because that's what travel teaches us. And I feel like, and I was asking this question to myself during COVID in London where I can't just go on a plane and travel to wherever I want, why am I doing this? I was so ready to quit. I was so ready to be like, I don't need that money. The only reason why I need money is so I can travel, is so I can create quality memories and live in the moment. It's a scary thought.

Lucas P. Johnson: One thing that you said here, actually, when you first took your job, was I rather would have holidays than income.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah, completely. And I still stand by it.

Lucas P. Johnson: Have you asked yourself in the moment when you're actually on holiday, would you rather have income than holidays? I mean because you're on holidays, you have to spend money. Right? You have to, sometimes it's a staycation. So you're not really spending a ton of money. But when we go on holidays, I try to--

Patryk Labuzek: That's very questionable where you live.

Lucas P. Johnson: Yeah.

Patryk Labuzek: For instance, it costs me less to travel abroad with the flights and have a holiday there than to spend a staycation in Ireland. Ireland is not cheap, my friends.

Lucas P. Johnson: Well, and my point is in those moments you wish that you would have more money. But before you wished you'd have more holiday or PTO. It's funny how we get put in this position where we actually question what we already decided. And I know that I rather would have PTO or holiday every single time because in those moments, I can make more money. I can go and do something whether it be sell something around me, whether it be selling something I love. I can go and do that in those moments. But what I can't get back is that time I'm spending with someone else, whether it be with you, Paddy, whether it be with my family, whether it be with my best friends here. Those days, I wish I had more of. And I know that if you're listening right now, that you want more time off to the live life because you shouldn't be working or living to work, but working to live. So get out there and do something incredible with your life. Stop dreaming of stuff, moving away from what really matters. Be a dream walker. You know, follow your dreams now. Live in the moment. Do it. Just do it. Just do it. You'll find yourself so much happier. So with that paddy, why don't you give us our homework for this week? What are we going to do for this week? Is it going to be spectacular?

Patryk Labuzek: Oh, I feel like our every homework is spectacular. I mean how I try to create the homework is with one thought in mind so you, the listener, the viewer, the reader of this can really step outside of your box and just develop step-by-step. We're trying to bring you across a beautiful journey where your dreams become reality. So you live the dream. Therefore, having said that--

Lucas P. Johnson: Dramatic pause.

Patryk Labuzek: Dramatic drum roll please. As we said before, enroll in a course or training or something that you really, really love, something that's gonna allow you to stick in the moment, that's going to allow you to learn how to live in the moment, that's going to help you become a better version of yourself. And read a book about your dream. And I feel with that, you know, we can wrap up with this episode.

Lucas P. Johnson: Yeah, you know, I just tried not to wish away time there. I was enjoying hearing those come out of your mouth. I just, just stop wishing away time. Stop. That's all I have for you too is to take a moment. Really, please just take a moment to listen to yourself. Hear what's going on. Give yourself the time of day, as they say. You know, some people don't give their people that they want in their lives the time of day. But you got to give yourself the time of day. Time to do it. The time to think.

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Lucas P. Johnson: One day at a time.