PDM 024: The Most Spontaneous and Thoughtful Lesson is Right In Front of You

Lucas P. Johnson: It was a spontaneous moment in my life where I said, I'm done. I'm done being the fat kid on the block. I'm done looking in the mirror and being really dissatisfied with the way I look. I'm done. I'm so done. And every single day before then I said, all right, tomorrow, I'll eat healthier. Tomorrow I'll go to the gym. Tomorrow I'll get a nutritionist. Tomorrow I'll do this. And then it came time for me to say today. It wasn't a New Year's resolution.

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, my name is Lucas Johnson.

Patryk Labuzek: And I'm Patryk Labuzek.

Lucas P. Johnson: Welcome back to another episode of Project Dream Mastery. We know it's been a minute. We have been taking a little bit of a break from life to just enjoy and get our thoughts in order, little hiatus as they may say. In this episode, we are planning to talk about being spontaneous and what way to better go into this topic by just being spontaneous and talking about what's going on in life. Right, Paddy?

Patryk Labuzek: A hundred percent.

Lucas P. Johnson: In 2020, we didn't get to do as many spontaneous things as we would have liked. I think we both can say and admit and probably preach about how little we actually did. But Paddy, I am so grateful for every moment that we've had in 2020 to make memories that are different than others. And, oh man, we got to sit around and watch TV, a lot of Netflix. And we also got to have some serious chats with some of the people in our life that may have not had the time to do before. So for you, Paddy, what has been one of those things that you're grateful for that 2020 brought you and that you learned and you brought into 2021?

Patryk Labuzek: Well, as difficult as 2020 has been, it has been a very busy year, and that goes throughout my entire life, both professional, private life and, you know, family-wise and all that kind of things. Super, super busy. And it's been, although it has been a difficult year, it has still been a good year I feel at least for me. And I've accomplished so, so much. You know, just even thinking about PDM, 2020 has been the year our baby has been born. You know? At stage it's up and running. So, yeah, that's one of the great things. Second thing, although I didn't do as much traveling, and you all know how much I love traveling and everything that goes with it, I felt that my blog always somewhere would go a little bit downhill. And that's what I was predicting.

Patryk Labuzek: You know, less traveling, less things to say, people trying to stay away from all the Bravo five, you know, to not get depressed. And I felt it would go downhill, but it actually went the opposite way around. And I found when I looked at my final year stats, that thing just shoot up. You know? For me, for always summer, it has been the best year yet since starting it. So two years ago. I had the most views and the most, the same readers and the stats have been off the chart for me. You know, people reading my little blog from 40 plus different countries around the world.

Lucas P. Johnson: That's incredible.

Patryk Labuzek: That's like, that's covering so much area of our planet. It's actually ridiculous. Like crazy, crazy. So, you know, in general, 2020 jus surprised and surprised us with, you know, all those super positive things but as well, the negative, unfortunately. Nevertheless, it was a surprising a year. I'm glad it's over. But you know, there are some things that I enjoyed in 2020. I'm sure you did too.

Lucas P. Johnson: Oh my goodness. Yeah. First, I want to say congratulations, man. We haven't talked about that. So I'm super excited for you. That is outstanding, man. Congrats. You know, I think people are really starting to figure out how much they love the travel based on being stuck at home. And, you know, I'm grateful. A lot of folks say 2021, you know, it's kind of a corny little thing, 2021, you know, 2021 the battle. I think 2020 was really a great year for reflection. And you're talking about stats and Project Dream Mastery, man. Yes, that is so bright. We launched Project Dream Mastery podcast officially in July of 2020. And Coachington has been in the works for many years. But this was our baby. This is something that we were passionate about, following our dreams. And the story behind how we even came up with the name, sitting in kind of the back of a van in New Zealand.

Lucas P. Johnson: And, you know, we were just like, man, this is a project. We want to master our dreams and it just came to life. And I'm just super excited and grateful to have you, Paddy. I'm grateful for our audience to know that we're reaching a lot of countries. I haven't looked at the stats in a while. But last time we were in 70, 80 plus countries. We had listeners from all over the world. We were getting feedback and ratings on the show, and I think we're on episode 24-ish right now as you're listening. So it's just really exciting. Now, what have I really saw myself in 2020 being proud of and really trying to figure out what we could do better in 2021? This is advice I actually gave someone on New Year's is relationships. If you can look at someone and craft and curate and build a strong relationship in a matter of 15 minutes and take that relationship to the next level, that is incredible.

Lucas P. Johnson: I spent New Year's talking to this flight instructor based in Charleston, South Carolina. And one thing he--we had a few drinks. We were just enjoying the night. I had a bunch of my close friends together. I just met this guy and, you know, probably wasn't the most responsible thing to be doing. But this was really incredible because we talked about--we just met. We built a relationship in 15 minutes. And when it came time and it came down to the end of the night and we had to figure out who we wanted to be friends with going into the new year, it's like, man, the only advice I have for you is to make relationships with people, build relationships, keep them and make them last. Because if you make a relationship last, it could get you so far in life. 2020 taught me that. Keep building your relationships. Make stronger relationships. Just keep on loving. That's what Project Dream Mastery's all about, man. Defy, dream, and love.

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah. So good. And I'm glad you mentioned what 2020 has taught you because for me the biggest lesson was just to keep going. Push, push, push, push harder. You know, and as I probably said in the previous episodes, sky's not the limit. So people pushing, you know, higher and higher and higher. Set the bar up and enjoy. Because above all else, 2020 has also taught me that it's okay to sit down, relax, and take things easy. You don't need to be running around, chasing, you know, for money, for success, for prestige, for all that, all those things that the media tells us, oh, you have so much time. So build a business. You know? And influence people and all that kind of stuff. I found it's okay to do nothing. And by saying nothing, nothing is a very funny word, Lucas, because even when we're doing nothing--

Lucas P. Johnson: We're doing something.

Patryk Labuzek: We're doing something. But most importantly, during that time when we do nothing, our brain does extraordinary things. It finally has time to analyze everything that happened during the year, everything that happened when we were running around and we're thinking about all those hundreds of things that piled up on us. And doing nothing gives this very precious time for our brain to analyze things, to kind of, you know, make those memories stuck. It's been great kind of finally realizing that taking a break and caring for yourself rather than everyone else is very important and kind of not being selfish. You know, I put that as my top priority for 2021, to take some time and think about myself and what I need rather than everybody else.

Lucas P. Johnson: I like that. You know, as you listen to this, I dare you to take a moment and analyze your own thoughts. As Paddy is talking about is taking the time for self-reflection is critical to building a happier life, to figuring out what you want I think. You know, Paddy, you're saying you need to take more time. I think we all do. I think we're so focused on everyone else's problems and we're focused on everyone else's, you know, hobbies or goals or aspirations, their problems that we forget about our own. We forget about the things we want to accomplish. We forget about the things that are important to us. Like Project Dream Mastery is super important to us. Sometimes we forget that our family is super important. We don't take the time to take a step back and ask them how they're doing. So Paddy, I think that that is definitely a great takeaway. And we need to question ourselves more. We need to think about those things. Why don't we? I mean that's really, what are your, what's your take on that? Why don't we take a step back more often? I know I listed a few. But for you, what was it? What was the reason why you didn't take the step back?

Patryk Labuzek: Yeah, I took this time to analyze it. So I'm super happy you're actually mentioning it because I came up with an answer. And it's not a straightforward answer. I was analyzing my life up until this point. You know, I have a lot of things going on in my life. We've got Project Dream Mastery. There's Always Somewhere at the side. There's my 9:00 to 5:00 PM work. There's family. There's friends. There's, you know, acquaintances as well. Everybody wants to do something and requires your attention, my attention, you know, in general. And I found that when I was sitting back on my couch, lying in bed, I was constantly thinking to myself, wow, I've got the next episode to record. I need to write up a blog. I need to make a few calls for my work. My mom and dad need me to do this. My brother wants me to do something else.

Patryk Labuzek: There are friends that want to meet up with me. So while I was taking a break, I actually wasn't taking a break because I had of all these big struggle in my head. What do I prioritize and do first? If you know what I mean. There was this constant battle inside my head. What should I be doing? Like I felt guilty for sitting around on my couch. I was, you know, I was thinking to myself, I should constantly be doing something. You know, whether that's doing something related to Project Ddream Mastery or writing a new blog post. I should be doing something more productive with my time than sitting back and relaxing. And that's a bad thought. I think that that's one of the reasons why I wasn't as happy as I should be particularly in 2020. Because having this extra bit of time, in the back of my head, I wanted to to do something super productive with it. But I've learned that taking a step back, having the time to analyze things, to self-reflect is super, super important. And then like it's just--

Lucas P. Johnson: What would be the first piece of advice you'd give someone that's struggling with being overworked first off, being burned out and kind of being in the position which you're talking about is not taking the time to really think about it? What would be your first piece of advice to how they could execute and make a--?

Patryk Labuzek: I feel the first and only piece of advice would be to think about yourself. Prioritize you rather than your boss and any side projects or whatever you might have going on in your life. At the end of the day, it's you in your body. You know, it's you. Having healthy, having a good mental health, you know, and spirit and soul and all that, so, so important. And you will see that anybody, I see myself when I take that break, truly take a break, truly sit back and relax, I am so much more productive with everything else.

Lucas P. Johnson: That's synergy in that moment of time where you're trying figure out just what's right, what's wrong. It's really great to take a moment and think about, are you working to live or are you living to work? And we talked about that in a previous episode. In those moments, do you think about work? Because I have a lot of time where I sit back and, you know, my day job, I think about, all right, what can I do better, first off? Am I happy? And my going the right direction with my future, my path? And those are the questions I ask myself. And Paddy ,now taking your first step into action, I've actually started to put time on my calendar every single day. And it's called Lucas time. It's time for me to sit back and relax. And you know, we have this period of time where we have lunch and I'm a big advocate of taking time for lunch to really enjoy lunch.

Lucas P. Johnson: I like to cook. I like to make my food. I like to really take the time for myself and turn all the distractions off. I don't do any thinking. Remember when we talked about you're not doing anything, you're always doing something. My something is getting into that mood to cook, to get something quality in my belly to make me think better throughout the day, to have energy. So when I talk about Lucas time, personal time, I take 15 minutes and I just sit there. And anything that I need to do, anything that's on my mind, it goes down on this notepad or it goes down on the seven that I have sitting around here. And that's when I know that those moments are now written down and I can let goaAnd I can release that often to the world.

Patryk Labuzek: Because I've found myself, and I actually found this from a coworker, he said that he was going to bed and he was having all of these thoughts about work. You shouldn't be doing that. He was antsy. He couldn't sleep. He was having anxiety because he knew he had 20, 25 things going on. So what did he do? He went onto his Outlook, went into his reminders or his notepad, and he started jotting down all the things that were on his mind. And I followed up with him two weeks later. I said, hey, man, how's it going? Are you sleeping better? You know, working remote is not necessarily something we do in my day job is we are typically onsite and we build relationships with clients. That's just what we do. So when you're stuck at home and, quote, unquote, stuck at home, you are really taking more time to think about the things that are always on your mind.

Lucas P. Johnson: So he started doing that. He executed on it. He made an action plan, and he started following through. Two weeks went by, and he said, it's the best sleep he's had in a long time. So if you take 15 minutes every single day, you take anything away from this episode, be spontaneous. Take 15 minutes, write your stuff down, and let go. Release it in the world. Because there's no reason that you should continue to think about it. And if it's one of those things that's super important to you, maybe you should stop what you're doing first off and follow up on it. If it's something that's really important to you like your family, someone's struggling, someone's in the hsopital, why the heck are you going to write it down? Call them, call mom, call my grandma, call Dad, you know, so forth Call Billy. Do it. Just do it now. If someone really cares about you and you care about them, don't write it down and you're going to call them on, you know, whatever day it is. Don't release that in the world. Just do it. Half the battle is just showing up. But when you have those things that can be done later, 15 minutes a day, take the time, two sessions a day if you need to. It's really important, Paddy. So I actually started to execute on that.

Patryk Labuzek: A hundred percent. nd I found another effective way of letting go. You know, I don't even know what to call it. This pants between you coming home from work, it's like changing the way you think. Because work-life balance is super important. When you come home, you shouldn't be thinking about work. It's not good for you. Your home is your home. I mean now things, the lines kind of become blurry when you work from home. It's very different. Therefore having a little workspace in your house is important. And you know, that workspace should be somewhere else than your bedroom, for example, where you sleep when you want to relax and have a good time. What I'm trying to say is what helped me put work and my social life or private life aside was a little routine in between. And it's very simple.

Patryk Labuzek: For me, it's just coming home from work, go straight into a nice, hot shower, release all the thoughts, all the, you know, negative energy if there is any from your day at work. Completely release it. Cleanse yourself. And then you're good to go. After a nice hot shower, you're like, you rock. You know, you're on top of your game and you're ready to have a good time at home. So I found this little, little routine, I mean an everyday thing that we do, take a shower. You know, if I put it in the right spot, right after coming home, I forget about work completely.

Lucas P. Johnson: Oh my gosh, man. That's so amazing. That's like that morning shower. You get in the groove. You get in that mindset.

Patryk Labuzek: That's exactly it. Or having that morning coffee. And this border solidifies for me--it is though because having that morning hot coffee or having that shower straight after work.

Lucas P. Johnson: I'm drinking mine right now. The world's biggest JAG off. It's a Berry thing. You know? Continue.

Patryk Labuzek: What was I saying? Yeah. Having the little routine separates or it solidifies the idea of good atomic habits that we've been talking about. Having a little habit, having a little routine placed exactly the right time can go a big way between seperating, you know, your work life from your personal life, clearing your head or, you know, might not be a shower. For example, it could be a walk in a park.

Lucas P. Johnson: How about you combine them? A little walk and a little, a little--I'll tell you a story. But continue. A little walk adn a little shower. Oh my goodness. So great. So great. Paddy, me and you are some of the most spontaneous people I think in this world. We truly get up and just do something to do it. I mean we will--someone says let's go skydiving,aAnd let's just say, you're getting on a train and someone who says, hey, we're going skydiving. Oh, okay. All right. We're going skydiving I guess.

Patryk Labuzek: Or when someone says jump off that cliff in probably an alligator infested pool, we do it.

Lucas P. Johnson: Yeah. We do a lot of spontaneous things. And the point of that is not necessarily following in our footsteps but leading by example. You know, setting examples and following through with what you want to do. Follow your dreams, first off. We talk about defy expectations, dream big, and loving deeply. We don't just say that to say. We believe in you. We believe in living those three pillars in our own life. Kind of broken that down into our every aspect of 2021 moving forward. We have been taking steps to defy expectations this year. We both have our own dreams and our own goals and ambitions. Paddy's been working on Always Somewhere and Project Dream Mastery and Coachington. I've been working on Coachington, Project Dream Mastery, and also raising a puppy. Oh, did I forget? Oh yeah, yeah. What else did I do spontaneous this year?

Lucas P. Johnson: I got a puppy. His name is Ollie. He is now four months. And he's one of the best things that I have that has come out of 2020. I am so grateful. I am so unbelievably grateful for him. He's telling me a little bit about being a dad. I know that sounds weird because it's a dog. But you're getting up at 3:00 AM to take a dog out and think you're kind of acting like a dad with a, you know, going to change diapers. So my point being said is we're living our own pillars. We're living our own principles and you need to find things in your life that you're willing to live for and live by. And if that's defy expectations, dream big, and love deeply, we're cool with that. You can get on board with us. We'd love that. We'd love for you to become part of our tribe, join our community, and make it happen.

Lucas P. Johnson: That's who we are. That's how we live. And that's how we want you to come with us on the journey. So I want to, I want to continue on with this conversation. But I just want you to know that we love you in 2021. You always have someone here to support you on your journey to finding your dreams and also following them. And if one of those things is to find love, we got you. We broke all of our episodes up into three different sections. And each one of them kind of focuses on different components of each of those pillars. So for this one, be spontaneous do something not crazy, but do something that's going to be life-changing for you. Do something that's going to make you happy. Do something that's going to put a smile on your face. Maybe that's get a puppy. It was really scary.

Lucas P. Johnson: I didn't know that I was going to be able to do it. I had no intention of getting a puppy. But I went in and this puppy--yeah, the lady put it in my arms. It wasn't even a breeder. Just a family friend that accidentally had a litter. My parents were getting one and they got the dog they wanted. And all of a sudden ,she puts one in my arms. And I go, hey, I travel four days a week. You know, I have all these things going on. Like right now we're doing this. When will I have time to take care of this dog? But there was just something so right about it, Paddy. And I actually thought about you as I said, yes. Like you know what? What's Paddy right now? What do I do? Paddy would've been like, yeah, man, this is amazing. Let's do it. So I got the puppy and I'm just unbelievably happy. I think he's somewhere around here. He's on the couch or I don't know, he's growing so fast. I can't believe I can't find him. But Paddy, I want to, I wanna leave this, I want to kind of lead with this. What are you planning to challenge yourself here in 2021 with? What do you plan on doing to make your goals a reality but also live by the three pillars I just spoke of?

Patryk Labuzek: Hmm. Difficult question. Because so many things I would change or alter or... You know, I'm a big fan of continuously developing, growing. So I'd say there's an unlimited amount of things that I would do. Well, first of all, trying to answer your question is foremost read more books with quality content .kind of broaden my horizons in a lot of many ways. That's the main thing. Secondly, like I mentioned earlier, taking more time for myself. Whether that's just 15 minutes a day or half an hour, you know, have quality time with me and be okay just doing nothing. And I've just learned that in 2020. And I'm taking on board and, you know, putting it down in 2021. Charting and content. Create quality content. And that relates to everything, PDM, Coachington, Always Somewhere.

Patryk Labuzek: The reason why is because I love creating content. I'm a creative person or I'd like to think. And you know, whenever I get a chance to go and take some pictures, I love that, you know, because that involves going out and taking them pictures, coming back, and importing them, doing light editing, looking at them, you know, scrapping things that I don't like, finding that one very special picture. And I just love the process. I love the process of creative thinking, of creating things and putting things out there. And so yeah, create content. And you know, one spontaneous thing that I did in 2020 was moved to my own place. Moved out from my parents and although I have to say this was kind of in the plan. I had in the back of my head, get a house and move out. It happened like this. With a click. One day I was living with my parents. The second day I went to see a house, loved it. I rented it out and I moved out. As simple as.

Lucas P. Johnson: And Paddy, can I jump in right there and ask you, you know, you did do that. Yeah. You're living in your own place right now. But there is also challenges that do come with living in your own place. You're now responsible for paying rent. You're responsible for paying all the utilities. You're responsible for buying, you know, all this stuff that you need in your apartment. So that is not something that's always attainable for everyone. And it's amazing to do something and be spontaneous and go do it. But what thoughts go through your head? You know, we talk, we don't talk a lot about planning. So what went through your mind as you were going through this major life--I mean I would consider that a major event. You're moving out of someone that took care of you your entire life. So what was that plan? What did it look like?

Patryk Labuzek: Oh, it was a battle and a half. Because when that whole idea of moving out popped into my head, first of all, it was a very positive thought because it's not like I haven't lived by myself before. I mean I lived in Australia for seven months on the other side of the world completely by myself, and then straight after I went to China for a year. So I have lived alone. And during that time of living alone, it was exactly when I learned more about myself and building new relationships, new, amazing friends, and creating a lot of cool things. I mean Always Somewhere happened right after Australia. And so a lot of positive kind of thoughts when I think about moving out. I was happy about that. But then I was thinking, man, rent has to be paid ,bills have to be paid.

Patryk Labuzek: Whatever happens in the house, the slightest thing. If your washing machine breaks, man, you have to pay up. So there was this whole aspect that am I able to upkeep the house? Because it's an apartment. We got a whole, gigantic house to ourselves. By saying ourselves, you know it, but the audience doesn't. I haven't rented out by myself. From the start, moving out has been about moving out with friends, moving out with friends who just positively impact my life, you know, have a bit of fun and kind of try to bring back the college days into my life and kind of socializing, even though I'm not really socializing. I'm at home. You know what I mean?

Lucas P. Johnson: Oh man, I know what you mean. It goes back to that tribe aspect. Surrounding yourself with the right people, your circle, your tribe, and going back to Project Dream Mastery, we want you to be in our tribe. So come join us. Sign up for the email list and we'll get you started. Continue.

Patryk Labuzek: So although it might've seemed like a scary thing to do, I love every process in moving out. You know? It's been a lot of fun, and I live with an amazing housemate. We're bringing another one on board to the third room soon enough. We've created this little gaming set up right here. And it's class, just playing games from time together. Just laughing, you know, having a good time. Yeah, man.

Lucas P. Johnson: You did something really spontaneous, and I'm really grateful for our friendship, our relationship, the whole nine yards. I'm grateful for. Because I learn from you and you learn from me. And we also learned from our audience. And I think that being spontaneous like that makes you first come out of your comfort zone. And two, it allows you to learn and continue to grow. So one of the aspects you said was talking about content for PDM, for Always Somewhere and so forth. One thing I really love from Gary Vaynerchuk is you can put up a hundred percent of your content in the world and 99% of the time, people don't act on it. So you have all this content. You have all this stuff you want to say. People are gonna go to it. They're gonna read it. They're going to listen to it. But 99% of the time, they're not going to act on it. So what can we do to persuade the people that are listening to us that are out there in the world, trying to make an impact in their own life theatjust don't have the motivation, the courage or something that they're lacking. What can we do right now to help them get to the next level? If you're listening right now, what can we do for you. So Paddy, what are your thoughts? What can we do to make that content actionable?

Patryk Labuzek: Very good question. And I don't think I have an answer to this just because at the end of the day, it's up to the listener, the viewer, the reader to make a choice and take that one step forward. We can't take a step forward for anyone. You know, as content creators, we try--that's a bad word to use--we put things out there that are a hundred percent us, that are a hundred percent our best content. You know, we don't put, I feel like, and I hope most of the content creators don't put mediocre stuff out there. I would love to hope that everything out there is their a hundred percent. At least it is for me. I know it is for you. It's always a hundred percent. And I think that's as much as we can do. You know, through our positive energy, through talking about important things like with you right now, we hope that the listener is going to take it on. But it's up to him at the end of the day to, like I said, make that step forward.

Lucas P. Johnson: I think you said it lot better than I could have. I was just going to say that there's no way we can actually make these decisions for you. If you're truly being honest with yourself right now and you're listening to us, are you going to make actionable, are you going to take the next actual steps to progress your future? Or are you just going to sit back and say, all right, tomorrow's another day. Because I'll tell you right now. I did that for the longest period of time. I was 272 pounds as you guys probably know from listening to previous episodes. I went through a serious transformation in my life. It was a spontaneous moment in my life where I said, I'm done. I'm done being the fat kid on the block. I'm done looking in the mirror and being really dissatisfied with the way I look. I'm done.

Lucas P. Johnson: I'm so done. And every single day before that, I said, all right, tomorrow, I'll eat healthier. Tomorrow I'll go to the gym. Tomorrow I'll get a nutritionist. Tomorrow I'll do this. And then it came time for me to say today. It wasn't a New Year's resolution. I mean that was March in 2020. So what do I have to be grateful for 2020? I learned about myself. It's not if, but when, first off. When are you going to take action? Number two, half the battle is just showing up. The reason why I ended up taking action in my life was not because of my own, okay, I got motivation all of a sudden. No, you know you guys know I'm very positive. I have ambitions and goals and aspirations. But that was not why I took action. I took action because someone in my life made a comment.

Lucas P. Johnson: They said to me, man, if you want it to happen, you have to do it. You have to take charge of your life. You have to own your mistakes. You have to own your life. So he goes, let's go down to the gym. I go, I don't really want to, man. I just want to sit here and sleep. It's 7:00 AM or 6:30 in the morning. I think naturally anyone would want to sleep at that period of time. He goes, man, put a shirt on. Okay. I put a shirt on. He goes, put pants on. I go, all right, I put pants on. It's like, I still don't want to go. It's like, well, dude, you already have your shirt on, you have your pants on. And you guys know him very well. He's been a guest on our episode or our podcast here. His name's Corey Johnson.

Lucas P. Johnson: He's my brother. And he was the reason why I started my transformation. Because he said to me, when I went down and I actually made my way into that gym and said, half the battle is showing up, you already have half the stuff done. Why don't you just make it fully and make it happen? So it was March 2020 when that initiative really took place. And it was because of someone that really gave me a push. But it was because I decided to take action. So what I'm saying to you right now is there is so much time, but there's only so much time. What does that mean? Yeah. Like Paddy was saying earlier, you can take a break, you can take a step back and do nothing and always be doing something. There's only so much time to have so much time. You have so much time to be healthy. You have so much time on this earth. But you only have so much time to make it a reality. So you can wait. If you're, you know, you're in a period of your life where it's just like, okay, you look in the mirror, you're dissatisfied. What are you going to do in this moment? Are you going to say, yes, it's time?

Lucas P. Johnson: It's time to be spontaneous. It's time to take action, man. It's 2021. Make 2021tThe year you want. Be spontaneous. It doesn't have to be weight loss. By the way, I am almost down to a hundred pounds of weight loss here. And I'm almost a year away from my start of my transformation. So it's been a really spontaneous thing that I started in 2020. And I like talking about it because it's something that's really, I'm passionate about, I'm grateful for. But it's also something that I think we're all struggling with. And it's not just weight loss. It's not that that I'm really focusing on and driving. It's the point where you say when is enough? Nine to fivedDoesn't have to be the end of your day. It could be the start. People come home from their nine to five, Paddy. They come make dinner. They take the dog out. And that's it.

Lucas P. Johnson: They're done. Watch a little bit of Netflix and that's their nine to five. It's game over. We don't live like that. I mean yes, some days. Our nine to five, we have nine to fives kind of nights, kind of like nine to midnights. I'm kidding. But it's about, it's about making things a reality in your life and taking charge in the moments that you have. There's only so much time to have so much time. So Paddy, I'll pass it back to you and ask what your thoughts are on what's so much time to have so much time?

: That was spot on, Lucas. I couldn't say it better. Time is our biggest enemy. I always said it. I always will say it. There's only amount of time that we have here and it's up to us to make the most out of it. You know, there's no point in waiting around and saying tomorrow or next week. Do it now. You don't know ither if you're going to live up the next week. I mean hopefully you will. Who knows? You know, you don't know what's going to happen an hour away from now. So taking action is important and about moving forward. I mean you can't move back. The time doesn't move back. The time only goes backwards or forwards I mean. You have to move forward as well.

Lucas P. Johnson: I couldn't agree more, man. I couldn't agree more. I actually want you to know something that happened in my personal life because I think this is about being spontaneous. I decided to start dating again. I got back out there as they say and it's good. And kind of weird because COVID I mean. But it's also, I'm saying I'm starting back up. I got back in the actual dating because COVID started in March. So it's been like eight months of really just kind of me time. And I went on a date. I know. So went on a date and it's been a while since I've really been in the dating scene, as I was saying. I think it's been a while since we've all been in that scene. But I said, you know what, man? It's time to do something spontaneous. So I met up, went out, got got a drink with this girl, went and got ice cream, you know, just kind of a little cute little date.

Lucas P. Johnson: And I learned a lot about myself in that moment. I think what you're talking about is something that I've started to apply in my life is taking those moments to think. And it doesn't necessarily just have to be in private. Sometimes you can just be listening to someone else and learn something about yourself. And that's typically how it kind of plays out for most of us. You hear something and it makes you question. It makes an impact on your own life, and you take action from it. We're learners. We learn from everything we do.

Patryk Labuzek: I mean I'd like the jump in right there because that's exactly why one of my goals is to read more books. And I'd like to think of it, you can read a book and treat it as a book, as a story of somebody talking about changes, you know, personal development, other kinds of stuff. But you can make this book your workbook, your life workbook. And that transition from something to being a story somebody's telling you this and that to making actual moves and making this a workbook is life changing.

Lucas P. Johnson: It's incredible. Going from nothing to something.

: Exactly. And there's just so much knowledge out there. People have so much, many different experiences. You know, a different viewpoint to what you might have right now. And listening to that and learning from that is eye opening.

Lucas P. Johnson: I want to take a different perspective here because you go from nothing to something. But I think sometimes you also go from something to nothing. Because in those moments, you're learning about things that you probably haven't really focused on in a while. You're reading, you're learning from others, and there's countless times that I've been sitting there and Paddy said something to me and I had a perspective. It wasn't biased. It was just my own perspective. And it could be changed. It could be altered. I had something. And Paddy said something to me and Paddy always says something to me that drives things home for me, it makes things clearer. And we are very, there's so much synergy between us. There really is. So we see things very, very similar. So I think when you have those moments and you have someone say something to you and makes things clearer, you go from something to nothing. And that is I think one of the best feelings is you learned something about yourself or something about the world. Those books, those moments, it can take you from something to nothing or nothing to something. That's crazy, man. It's crazy how being spontaneous and doing things in your life that you can improve or just out of the blue can make such an impact.

Patryk Labuzek: I'm not sure about yourself, Lucas, but for me, when I do something spontaneous, I feel very fulfilled. I can't explain it. Like I'm thinking back to the most spontaneous thing I did. That was what you in Australia when we went to Royal National Park. And, you know, you and Tristian were like, oh, that's a nice cliff. You guys should jump off it. And I'm like, man, this is high. Like that's high up. I don't know if I can do it. Well, we did it and it's stuck, the memory is still stuck in my mind. We did something super spontaneous and I pushed myself. I went completely out of the comfort zone and we jumped something like, what did you drown say? 13, 14 meters. Man, that's crazy. That's like borderline suicidal.

Lucas P. Johnson: You had no idea what was under there either. You guys were just doing, I was, hey, I was the one just recording. Okay? I told him be safe. And then all of a sudden, the ranger came and then they jumped.

Patryk Labuzek: But the difference is we didn't do it for the people. I did it for myself. And after that jump, I changed. I mean as cliche as this may sound. Okay? Wow, you did one thing and your life has flipped. No, that's not what happened. But what I'm saying is I jumped and I pushed my comfort zone. I pushed that borderline way up. Like way out there. Like way, way out there. The next thing we did, we jumped off a plane 30,000 feet above.

Lucas P. Johnson: We did.

Patryk Labuzek: That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Like take actionable steps on pushing yourself further. Of course, you know, reasonably pushing yourself further. I mean like clearly, you know, being smart about it, first of all. But doing that opens up on your perspective.

Lucas P. Johnson: Yeah. And it's crazy, man. This being spontaneous is, I know this is really a topic for today and we're going to really harp on that is being spontaneous will take you to new levels in your life that will teach you new things about yourself, give you a new perspective, and also, allow you to just be more transparent with the things that really matter to you. This entire conversation has been completely spontaneous. And that's one of the things I love about this show is it makes you come out of your comfort zones and talk about things that not always are super comfortable to talk about. But also, it allows you to think. I go back and listen to all of our episodes and even read through some of our transcripts. And I learn a lot about myself, but I also learn bout a lot about Paddy.

Lucas P. Johnson: I learn about things that we can improve. I also learn about the stuff that we're talking about and allow it to really simmer. Because when you're talking, if you keep on talking, you don't listen. You you kind of get lost. You don't really consume. You don't really get to sit and really understand the content. So right now on air, I'm about to do something spontaneous, maybe a little bit scary for both of us. but I'm going to challenge us both on air to make a goal, to set a goal and hold ourselves completely accountable to it for 2021. And I want you to hold us accountable. And I want it to be something that we both haven't really thought about in our life or even wrote down before we got to this moment.

Patryk Labuzek: I think we shouldn't come up with it. I think our audience should come up with a challenge for us. How about that?

Lucas P. Johnson: That's spontaneous.

: That's challenging, isn't it?

Lucas P. Johnson: Yeah. Yeah. Why don't we do that? So we're going to hold a contest and I got to figure out how to set it up. Maybe it will be Twitter. Maybe it will be a guest post or a form. We want you to set up a challenge for us, give us ideas and we'll see what we can do. But also, you're not getting away that easy, buddy. We're setting a goal on air right now. Would you like me to start?

: Start off.

: By the end of 2021--this is really, really crazy. I'm about to do this--be the end of 2021, I want to be full-time Project Dream Mastery and Coachington. I want to be full-time chasing my dreams. And you know, they talked about smart goals, but because I put myself in the spot, I haven't written down, I don't have enough time to really go through the smart goal aspect.

Lucas P. Johnson: I want to set, I want to set a time in my life to really be hands down, heads down or heads up, hands down, focused on the stuff that I really love and am passionate about. So at the end of 2021, I want to impact both Paddy and myself with Project Dream Mastery and Coachington, impact 1 million people's lives. That's my goal. 2021, by end of 2021, I want to have 1 million people be impact edby the content that we have here, be completely invested in our goals and our missions. And I want you to hold me accountable and also, hold us accountable. And I will be very transparent and put up all of our stats of how many listeners we have, how many people are interacting with our content. And yeah, not sure exactly how I'm gonna do it all, but we got this. And I want to make sure that I'm holding myself accountable. I want you to hold me accountable as well. Everyone's got our information, our links, you've got our emails. I want you to hold us accountable and me accountable to the one I just said. So Paddy, I am now passing the torch to you. Put it up on air. By 2021.

Patryk Labuzek: I've been thinking about the New Year's resolution here, and there's only one thing, one big life changing thing I want to incorporate in 2021 is really doing what I love full-time and that's content creation. That's PDM. That's Always Somewhere. That's Coachington. That's me. That's me right there. And I want to be me in 2021aAnd from this point onwards.

Lucas P. Johnson: Fantastic. So we're going to try to lead by example here. We're going to take those giant foot, those giant steps forward. And we're going to see what we can do. I recently read a book here behind me somewhere. It's called a One Page Marketing Plan and it goes into the 80/20 rule and it goes deeper and deeper. There's actually, it's pretty fantastic. If someone asks me, why are you reading a marketing book? It's pretty boring. Right? I go, what? You know, I didn't actually say that. I was like, yeah, yeah, pretty boring. But being spontaneous, I said, because I like to learn, even though I go, I read the book, it's pretty boring. You know, it's what you're saying. It's boring. I learned so much in 16 pages, 35 pages. I think it was 35 pages. In 35 pages, I learned more than I did an entire week, entire month.

Lucas P. Johnson: So 99% of the time, getting to the next, the next point in your life is marketing. 99% is marketing. And that doesn't just apply to business. That applies to your life. If you market your goals and you make them visible, you know what happens? People start to hold you accountable. They start to hold you to it. You become more actionable. So I'm going to challenge you right now as you listen to this, whether it's in the future or whether you're listening to it on the date it went live, make a goal. Set its end date 365 days from today. Write it down and market it. Because 99% of the time, if you market it, you are successful. With that, Paddy, I'm going to leave the floor to you and hear any other spontaneous thoughts you have before we close.

Patryk Labuzek: Wow. Well, any thoughts. Don't know, man. I mean--

Lucas P. Johnson: I just don't know.

Patryk Labuzek: I'm not going to come up with spontaneous things because they wouldn't be spontaneous, would it?

Lucas P. Johnson: All right. Well, that's a good point. So thanks for being spontaneous and letting them know that you don't have any spontaneous thoughts. Well, thank you so much for joining us here at Poject Dream aMstery. 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 today. 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. And we'll see you on the next episode of Project Dream Mastery. Thanks. Talk to you soon.