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Making Time Count: Intentional Living for Success
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Hello there, this is Living your Success 24-7, with Michael Caine in the house. Hey, oh, anyway, how are you doing today? How's this week Going by fast? This year 2025, wow, it's just lightning speed going forward. That said, let's jump right into it. It's gonna do a little freestyle here. As far as we chat whatever's on our mind, I, I want to talk about this year speeding by.
Speaker 1:So the concept I want to talk about is time. How, how are you using your time? You know, I was thinking, my God, the older you get each year, each half a year, getting older, start thinking man, tomorrow's not promised the time. How much time do we have? How much time do we use? How much time do we waste? And you say what does that have to do about making money or being successful and being content? A lot how you use your time. You use it unwisely or wisely. And it's good to have fun. Without fun, entertainment, vacations and celebrations, life would be really dull, wouldn't you? Don't you think so? We have to have that. Then there's the flip side of that coin called working. You know what I mean? Working for the man I'll be gender neutral working for the person, okay. So how do you utilize your time. And then part B is that to move you to the result of being successful as you define it.
Speaker 1:Keep in mind everybody's definition of success is different. Some people can be content with working four hours a day, part-time, making just enough, and they're happy. And other people go to the other extreme workaholic, work 80, 90, 100 hours a week, get paid a lot of money to do that, but you may not be content, may not be joyful inside. Some people may. So you have to tailor this discussion about time which leads to purpose, to leads to goals. You have to make it your own, and I spent confession time.
Speaker 1:I spent many years doing something I probably really didn't want to do and so, but floating in the wind. I wrote a chapter in my book, slaying your Dragons Living the Life you Always Wanted, about being a feather. You know feathers, so light it goes. If it blows north, it goes north. If it blows west, east, south, any direction the wind blows, is that you Okay? Maybe doing something is better than doing nothing, and sometimes the opposite is true.
Speaker 1:Doing something or not doing something Depends on what that something is right. If it's detrimental to you, then you don't want to do that at all, whatever that is, any vices. You know what I mean. I don't wanna do that at all. Whatever that is, any vices, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So what do we do after we come out of the womb? Too bad, we don't have a game plan, then right, wouldn't that be neat. You're born, you just pop out and you got your plan ready to go. This is, in a way, we do have that. It's called our parents In their mind, goodly or badly in their mind. I got a blueprint ready for my child what I or we expect of he or she. We actually do, informal or formal. We got it, we got it, and so we have to ultimately charter on course.
Speaker 1:Now, that may be very difficult in culturally oriented families. I'm being polite. You know some ethnically. You're expected to be the doctor. You're expected to do this. Excuse me. You're expected to do this, excuse me. Expected to hold your T and 1 in the left hand, pinky up. You're expected to get married to this type of person. You're expected to go to this school. You're expected to wear these clothes. Go to this place of worship. You're on and on and on.
Speaker 1:Folks got their mindset, well-intended and well-meaning folks, but it may not be you, it ain't you? Now, obviously, when you're five, six, seven, eight, nine, even three years old, you don't have too much say so. And they're not asking you your opinion, are they? And that may be wise too, not relying on the wisdom of a four-year-old. I don't know how that will work out. Maybe you're a genius, I don't know. I don't know how that will work out. Maybe you're a genius, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But so at some point you have to stop and say am I going in the right direction with my time and what I'm emphasizing, what I'm focused on, and that's a yes or a no. Now, some folks don't do yes or no, they just again float in the wind. And this is no condemnation, but I'm just being straight up that you just still have no idea. And that could be a problem because you get older, if you waste a lot of time. But it's not an easy situation to break away from well-meaning folks called your parents or guardian or coach or, you know, mentor, to break away from all the teachings they've taught you the majority of your life, for a significant amount of your life.
Speaker 1:So may be difficult to say I gotta go my own way. That could hurt, yeah, it could so, but at the same time, do you really want to spend 40 years doing something you don't want to do, not inclined to do? Where's your time? Where are you in time? We can't go back in a spaceship, that time machine. I tried, I tried. I can't try to get in that time machine, but it wouldn't work, it wouldn't take me back the time sheening of your mind.
Speaker 1:We can go and live in the past and regret. That's not nice either, is it? That's another waste of time. But it's good to reflect. You need to reflect on the history and the past because you want to be remember that expression doomed to repeat it. So you got to be honest with yourself. But a lot of people don't want to be honest because it's painful, painful memories that people didn't get you, they didn't understand you, and I'm guilty on both sides of that. I'm guilty as a victim myself to some extent, and then also the perpetrator imposing the will on children. I have children Saying you really need to do this? Well, no, maybe, maybe not.
Speaker 1:Now there's certain core things I believe you should do, like if you want to be financially independent, you need to make money. I mean legally, that's my opinion, legal money, right, stay out of prison, right. Right, get out and stay out of prison Right. And financial resources that will buy other resources like have clothes, a home and food. How about that? Do you need a home? Do you need clothes? Do you need food, water you don't need soda, you don't need water. So those are necessities. Remember that pyramid Hierarchy of needs Right, the bottom is shelter, clothes, food and water. So you have to do certain things in order to survive.
Speaker 1:Now the big question mark is what are those things that will cause that'll able me to be happy and joyful but survive economically speaking? So, no more useless degrees in college, please, you know, please, something that is impossible to never, ever, ever make money from. Don't do that. Don't do that. Money's gone, school's not giving it back, you're not getting a job in it, so it's over.
Speaker 1:Regret, regret. I have regret in certain things, a lot of things, but I want to be the best version of michael cain. I can be here to express and be the best version of yourself. That means stop doing the stupid. So I decide, michael, do it again. No, stop doing the stupid. Cost me money. Cost that other one. Cost me three3,000. That cost me $2,000, 500. How about $50,000? $50,000,? Yeah, one of those stupids and didn't reason it out.
Speaker 1:Maybe talk to someone that you trust to give you advice, but it's still your decision, or whatever decision that is reflecting on how you're allocating your time and purpose and direction in life. So the sooner the better in answering basic questions of who you are, who am I? Because if you don't know that fundamentally and have that value system tied to that, you could be all over the place. All over the place Wasting more time. Can't get time back, just can't Time in a bottle, jim Croce, time is in a bottle. Once it's in a bottle, it ain't coming back out.
Speaker 1:So you have to decide what's my focus? What's my thing? You ain't got a thing. Something, what's your time? So I'm doing my best to remember this song and I just not going to do it. Ok, so we could be exacerbated and just say, oh, I give up, I don't know what I'm going to do every day. I don't know, I hate what I do. Yes, I hate that.
Speaker 1:Remember, if you create a void in your life, you have to replace it with something. So don't make, you shouldn't make. I recommend you don't make rash decisions, and just without thinking it fully through Meditating on it and having a two columns, the. You know the positives and the minuses. What's the good stuff that can happen if I make this decision? What's the negative? Things can happen and be brutal, because life will be brutal to you. Because life will be brutal to you. Nothing will give you a way out to be nice. Life can be rough, folks. It can be rough, but it's not impossible.
Speaker 1:And one other thing I suggest to be successful, this show is living your success, not dead your success. It only works if you're living. You're not living just to give someone else an inheritance or alimony or take care of them when you're dead. I hope your life is more than that. You don't want to just be that's what you defined as okay but you want to really have a directed life, an intentional life, tethered to the time. You know, just like if you're at work and your boss says okay, I need you to do this proposal. I need you to sweep this floor whatever. I need you to do this proposal. I need you to sweep this floor whatever. I need you to do it in one hour. See, when you have a deadline on something, it kind of has a different dynamic. In fact, I just had that recently and I thought I had. I did have my thought. I knew I had next week on this project. I knew I had next week on this project and so then got a communication saying, well, if you could really get it done this week instead of next week, well, really. So that shifted my horizon there and my speed, and I got it done. I got it done.
Speaker 1:Sometimes you may have to tell people we agreed on this date and time, this date and time, and I'll see what I can do. Don't be taken advantage of as a fool either, because people will do that, take advantage of you, unfortunately. Just expect it. You just don't know who it is. But stand up for yourself. Be strong. Bounce back up, you will fail, you will fall. Be strong. Bounce back up, you will fail, you will fall. Be resilient. Bounce back up. You may hear a thousand no's and it's that one thousand. One time you'll hear yes, and so a lot of times it is a numbers game or whatever it is, but you got to go back to square one. Okay, if life is a game, you're on square one. Who am I? You know, and how much time do I have now, in the big sense of time. We don't know.
Speaker 1:We can live to be a hundred and a years old, 110, 80 years old, 90 people live and not unlive. Okay, I don't know if that's an expression, Maybe you can quote me. Unlive I'm not predicting the zombie apocalypse when I say they're the. When they say the undead, they're the unlived. But unlived mean you didn't live your life according to your rules. Now, you won't always be able to do that as age appropriate. We're not asking a five-year-old oh, you want to smoke or drink bourbon? We're not going there with that. So some things is just not appropriate. So don't get bent out of shape Now. Even when you're 18 years old, yeah, legally you're an adult, but you don't have.
Speaker 1:You know there's something still missing and that's experience life, anticipating what could go wrong. We don't have that sophistication system built in for the most part, and so not that you should hang on everyone else's word or mindset, but give yourself time to especially those on the younger side time to absorb life and don't rush it. You know you got people rushing to make decisions, doing this, getting married, doing this and doing all kinds of stuff they shouldn't be doing, and a lot of those things lead you to regret and resentment. This isn't a marriage or a couple relationships show, but in a way I do have to cover those things because it positively or negatively impacts your success on many levels, from the emotional joy to the financial sustainability of your lifestyle. So it has everywhere in there. It's intertwined.
Speaker 1:So who am I? What am I going to do with my time today? And let's say you have the big picture of what I'm going to do with your life. You can say you get a degree, or you get experience or skilled in something it could be plumbing, or it could be a doctor, in something it could be plumbing, or it could be a doctor, it could be a race car driver, a musician or whoever whatever writer, filmmaker, musician, whatever. And you still have to say, well, how am I going to best use my time and with whom?
Speaker 1:You know you have friends that maybe you grew up with, let's say four or five of you, and you've got stuff to do. Let's say you're in a relationship, now you're married and maybe you have children. You can't do the same things you did when you're all single. Okay, you get together, have some friend time you know every so often and time with whatever significant other you have, and definitely your children. Don't be an absentee parent, long-distance parent, stuff that's kind of bad and crappy, but I want to be successful. That's my declaration. I want to be successful. Okay, that's very generic. So what does that mean to me? So please write it down.
Speaker 1:As far as I'm going to spend my time on learning the guitar, because I want to play the guitar as a hobby, or I'm going to play it as a professional musician one day, those two pathways may dictate the intensity and the time you use or take to learn how to play the guitar, or maybe the same. Maybe you're intense in your hobby and you have the time, like me, I, you know I want to learn how to play the guitar. I really do, even if it's basic, just so I can just join in a jam session or someone say, hey, to get your guitar, let's play a few songs or something. I just want to play the guitar too, and I want to possibly do when I were into filmmaking or something like that more writing. So I have some goals and those goals can shift and change depending on the season of life, because when you're 10 years old, you got five years old, you're hey, I just want some candy. Just give me some candy, leave me alone, let me watch cartoons.
Speaker 1:Then you get 15, you're a teenager, get serious, you know, you want to go out and hang out with your friends and get into trouble, possibly. And then you're 20, 21, 22,. You start saying, man, I want to be successful, I need some money, what am I going to do with my life? You know, go to college, go to vacation, school, whatever. Then 25, 30, okay, you want to settle down maybe at that point, so you can't be at the bar and the pub with your buddies every day anymore.
Speaker 1:If you want to be alone, not have anyone, that's the way to do it, and that may be an option too Bachelor bachelorettes, you know and that's fine. There's no right or wrong. When you're the one making the decision. It's like just be careful what you ask for. That's all I told someone earlier. Be careful, you may just get it. And if you get it, you say, oh, dang it, what the heck did I do? Sometimes we do that and then we regroup. Just make sure it's not a major poor decision, because those take longer to clean up, like when you have to file bankruptcy because you spent all your money up unwisely or trusted someone wisely, trusted them and had reason to, and they messed you over, stole all, took all your money, took all the family money and blew it up. And so things happen to good people Unintended consequences, stuff happens. Had it done to me. So I'm still striving.
Speaker 1:No matter what level of success you are today, you know you may want to go up another level, meaning more joy or more money, or both. Say hey, okay, I'm making $100,000. I want to make $500,000. So more tenacity, more grinding and building, and that's okay. Some of you may be content with only $50,000 a year and that's your definition of success I'm happy and I'm making $50,000. I'm fine, okay. And so some of you are so driven you want to be billionaires.
Speaker 1:A lot of people want to be millionaires. Not everyone wants to be a billionaire. It's important that you know what you're going to and it all goes back to time. What you spend your time on is the most important thing you can do, because that impacts affects where you go from there If you go left right up down backwards as far as your level of success. So repeat after me I plan to be successful.
Speaker 1:I plan to be financially successful, not necessarily a millionaire, billionaire, but content sufficient. I can get on a plane and go to Disney World any moment, or Rich Carlton in New York. Get on the plane today and go. I want to have that kind of money where I can be reasonably well off, not rich per se, but just where you can periodically do stuff like that, which would be insane and crazy if you're like broke all the time or don't have sufficient funds. Insane and crazy if you're like broke all the time or don't have sufficient funds.
Speaker 1:Okay, or you're tethered to some kind of reality at this point like a bunch of kids and significant other. I'm not saying that's a bad thing because I have that. Just be planned on it. No oops and no mistakes. Oops, I didn't know. Yes, you did. What do you think was going to happen? You know doing something and there's a consequence. Consequence could be good or bad. So don't say you don't know. Okay, so choose wisely, my friends. Choose wisely, so work on. You should have a uh, a journal or whatever. It is a tracking mechanism to track every day.
Speaker 1:What did I do to get closer to success Like? One thing I'm going to put is to do this podcast with the goal of uplifting someone's life, at least one. At least one person can benefit from this. I hope thousands can, tens of thousands, it'd be a million. One day I would love to get to a million people to say Michael Caine impacted my life a million people. That's one of my goals. Is it realistic? Maybe not, but it's one of the goals.
Speaker 1:Not to just brag Of course there would be bragging rights, but in my heart I said I really touched a lot of people in my life and I feel some way that can kind of help me move beyond some of those failures that shouldn't have been failures or unwise things done that shouldn't have been done. But again, you move on, and so it could be called redemption, whatever you want. That's fair. So it could be called redemption whatever you want. That's fair. And to impact the lives of many people. That's what I want to do. That's in person as well as digitally, you know, through various media, and so I want to.
Speaker 1:Also, my definition of success, too, is to be happy, to have joy, wake up with joy on so many levels. I'm not necessarily talking about spiritual here, but that's fine too. I do want to be in tune with my spirit and to be content and be a good heart, good spirit. And so I want to be healthy, a big one, because without health you could be just dead and not alive to reap the benefits of your toils and struggles. So I want to be healthy. I don't want to have diabetes. I'm borderline that. So I'm touching fate here. So I got to do better.
Speaker 1:I know I fell off the wagon of eating some junk stuff so I said, okay, I'm going to cut half of that and then 75% of that out Progressively, so I'm working. So I said no today to chocolate and some candies. I was proud of myself. Nope, Right there in front of me Sweating me, oh boy. I said, okay, move on, I'm going to do no chocolate, cookies and this and that, because that's not good for me.
Speaker 1:So, whatever you want to be preventive, preventive, have preventiveness. You want to be catching up, trying to, you know, catch up with your good health, because you're doing something you know not so smart, with your what you drink and what you eat. And so having good health, excellent health, where I can be well into the 70s, 80s and be mobile and walk around Europe in my 50s, right. And so you say, wow, okay, mike, I didn't know you were like that old Really Well, compared to being 120, maybe I'll be 120.
Speaker 1:Okay, if you have a quality of life and there's people here that you know that, live it. That may not be a bad idea. But anyway, people here that you know that, live it may not be a bad idea. But anyway, define and define it like you're looking encyclopedia of your mind what is success to me and what am I going to? These activities to help me to get to reach the success I always wanted? So that's your homework. What is it? See, a lot of people think they know, but then again they're floating in the wind again, doing this on Monday, doing that on Wednesday, doing that on Friday, saturday, something else and no full commitment.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you about the word multitasking. It can stop you, hinder you and destroy your time and your efforts to reach your primary goals. Focus on what matters. See, a lot of people focus on being busy but not doing what they need to do and doing the right thing. I've been guilty of that. Raise my hand. So you don't want to just be busy and just spending time, which is really just wasting time. So be intentional and pick those things You're going to spend your time, and remember, time waits, for no person Is moving. So where are you going to be by June of this year, by September of this year, by December of this year? So it was important that you figured all that out Again. The answers may not come all at once today, but you need to be spending time, turn the TV off, stop talking and getting to a zone where you can think about all this.
Speaker 1:So, that said, I appreciate each and every one of you, wherever you are located in this thing called planet earth. Thank you so much. Please subscribe and get the notifications so you know when new episodes come up. Please support my channel. I appreciate it. My website is living your success. Calm, michael Cain, get me on Amazon, apple. I heart Spotify and more so. Appreciate you. And until next time, my friends, until next time, good ball.
