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Living Your Success (24/7)
Finding Peace in the Pursuit of Success
Peace of mind isn't something that arrives after achievement—it's the foundation that makes achievement meaningful. In this reflective episode, I explore the delicate balance between pursuing ambitious goals and maintaining inner tranquility throughout the journey.
After a brief hiatus, I've been contemplating what creates lasting contentment amid life's pressures. We're all familiar with various stressors—work demands, relationship challenges, financial concerns, health issues—but the key to success isn't eliminating stress (impossible unless you're dead) but developing healthy responses to it. What triggers your sense of calm? For me, it's watching ocean waves and hearing seagulls, but the ultimate goal is cultivating internal peace that external circumstances can't easily disrupt.
I share personal insights about "joy thieves"—those vampire-like individuals who drain your energy, time, and happiness. Some simply won't celebrate your success due to jealousy, while others actively try to sabotage you through gossip or manipulation. Recognizing these dynamics helps you establish necessary boundaries without sacrificing your forward momentum. Your peace is too valuable to surrender to those who don't wish you well.
Many define success narrowly through material achievements, then wonder why attaining those goals leaves them feeling empty. True wealth encompasses more than money—it includes health, meaningful relationships, and spiritual fulfillment. By broadening your definition of success, you create more opportunities for contentment while still pursuing ambitious dreams. Remember, you're not taking any possessions with you when you die, so prioritize what truly matters.
Subscribe to Living Your Success 24-7 and check out my book "Slaying Your Dragons: Living the Life You Always Wanted" on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. What small step can you take today to reclaim your peace while still pursuing your dreams?
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Well, hello there. This is Living your Success 24-7 with Michael Caine. Yes, I know I've been M-I-A, m-i-a, but I'm right here now, right here. So it's been a little while the time Time. What does it say? Time waits for no man, gender neutral. Now, time waits for no person. One thing you can't have more of is time. So to explain my MIA-ness I think I just made that up, but anyway, that word MIA-ish? Well, we'll work on that up. But anyway, that word am I A-ish? Well, we'll work on that later.
Speaker 1:I hope all of you are doing fine and well. If not, I hope I can help to elevate you out of wherever you are to a level of contentment and peace. I feel like talking about peace today. You know, to be successful, to march toward success, some degree of peace should factor in, because if you don't have peace, you don't have some form of tranquility. Uh-oh, I'm not getting mushy on you now, just stay with me.
Speaker 1:What does that have to do with anything? Well, let me reflect on myself. I always had a plan of action. I was reminded that recently, when I was reminded that recently, when I was small, five years old, six years old, seven, eight on up, michael Caine had a plane, always had not a scheme, now, that kind of changes things, a scheme that sounds like wicked and not wicked the movie, by the way, I love that movie Anyway. But I had a plan of action to move forward with achieving milestones, goals, dreams, expectations, you call it whatever you want Wish list, bucket list and I was doing it in my own time, my own timeline, where there's no pressure. You know, when you have a job and you have these uh projects and when does the project do? Oh, tomorrow, you know, pressure, that high pressure. I didn't have that, didn't have that then, and I was reflecting on me myself and I my life.
Speaker 1:As far as what period of time was I at peace? Or just experience just a calmness, right, you know, a lot of you have high-powered jobs, or jobs that just, or jobs maybe a multiple, two or three. I've known people to have to make it to survive, to thrive. You do what you got to do. Okay, it's understood. Anyone listening to my channel here, this podcast, is going to do what they need to do. Legally, of course, I'm saying okay, the wonder world here, but I was looking at what point where I was moving forward with my goals. You know, reaching for the stars if you will, but it wasn't so with a gun to the head, right? You know a lot of. You can be consultants or lawyers or just whatever job you are. No one's better than each other. I go in there.
Speaker 1:But whatever job, whatever career, you have some degree of stress and that's part of it. There's no way you're going to get out of the land of stress. You can only work on dealing with it or channeling it in a positive way. You can't remove it entirely. It's only one type of person that has no stress of any kind and that's somebody that is dead, d-e-a-d. Dead, not alive Assuming there's no zombies, of course, okay or resurrected folks. Right now, only kind you're dead.
Speaker 1:Otherwise you have some level. It could be work stress, relationship stress, and then relationship could be broken down into real close friends, significant other partner, some kind of marriage there, husband and wife kind of thing going on, friend stress, whatever, money stress, health stress. So it's almost impossible to totally eliminate that. What you do is how you deal with stuff, right, and so I was looking at where I'm at today. Okay, what level of stress you know, from 1 to 10,. Where am I? Sometimes it could be a 4, sometimes 9, sometimes 12 on the scale of 1 to 10, right, and so it's going to fluctuate. It's going to go your way, not your way. But the world shake a little. The sky is falling. The sky is falling. It's not falling people, it's not going to fall, okay. So I want to recapture that point in my life.
Speaker 1:This is not just trying to dredge up old history stuff, going back into the land of negativity. I'm not saying that of negativity, I'm not saying that. I'm talking about going to that zone where, wow, I was moving forward but managing peace coming in, negativity going out. So what's your peace number? Do you know how to get to that land? This isn't the land of Oz. We know how that ended, right, kind of mixed there.
Speaker 1:But what will it take For you To keep moving and pushing yourself With sufficient force to realize the golden calf at the end of the rope, the gold medal. Because in my book you all have the potential, we have gold, we have bronze and silver. Right, silver and bronze. That order Certificate is nice too, acknowledgement. If you can't get the gold trophy all the time, no one wins all the time but to move forward and to where no one, including yourself, damages that zone and that land we call the land of peace. You don't even let yourself ruin it.
Speaker 1:And so last few weeks I've been reflecting I'm not totally finished yet, oh wow, you're reflecting for weeks and not finished yet been reflecting. I'm not totally finished yet. Oh wow, you're reflecting for weeks and not finished yet. No, I'm not. I got some successes there. You know different categories of my life where I'm okay. Now I'm still working on some other aspects of my existence here, and so I can remain in the land and step back into the land of peace.
Speaker 1:And so part of the discovery, the solution, is to discover who you are and who you are. Who you were at three years old may not be the same person today. Any stage of your life. Okay, your toddler, your infant, relying on parents, guardians right to feed you baby, you have no control whatsoever. Then your toddler. Now you're starting to run. You can run and people have to catch you, so you're starting to be aware of things. And then you get preteens and in high school, which leads to massive confusion. It's already confusing enough by yourself, and then people make it worse. Yeah, we will blame certain people that are trying to stop you from entering or staying in the land of peace.
Speaker 1:There's a book, what is it called? Don't Let Anyone Steal your Joy. That's essentially what I'm preaching right now Don't let anyone steal your joy. One measure of success and one way to get there in all manners whether it relationship, relational or money, career is to have the right mindset, the right joyful, peaceful mindset.
Speaker 1:I don't know how the podcast tell you oh, I'm get rich. Tell you how to be a millionaire in 10 days and how to invest in this, invest in that, that real estate, crypto, all of that I do that. A whole little coin in your hands, that's fine. But my conversation is deeper. And to get all those things, that's fine. Get wealth, that's what my podcast is about. Get well, that's what my podcast is about. But it's not just about money wealth, it's about life wealth. It's about health wealth, right Relationship wealth that's what I'm about, not just the monetary value.
Speaker 1:Because let me tell you something, folks when you die, your money ain't going with you. Yeah, they could throw it in a grave, in your coffin, whatever, but you will not have awareness that it's with you and you will be in no uh degree of ability to use any money after you're dead, dea, dead, dead, dead dead. So it ain't going with you. We're dying, we're not. Oh man, wow, what did the stock market do today? How's my real estate holding? No, you know, I think you're going to have greater concerns because that'll be part of your legacy that you leave as an inheritance. It's over for you at some point. It's going to be over for all of us. Like they said, ain't nobody going walking out, going walking out. We're leaving this all in a similar fashion.
Speaker 1:Okay, and so, that said, everything is connected in a ratio with time, because, whatever you do, time is involved. You can waste your time you have misguided time or be on target with your time on what you should be doing to move forward to live a successful life. I've known people, even including myself, who squandered excessive amount of time worrying about stuff you cannot control and worried about folks that you know. Some folks are with you, some are against you, and don't let anybody steal your peace, your joy or your what time. I realize that If I can go back and talk to my younger self oh, michael Caine, warning, warning, warning. There's these type of people that are vampires trying to suck you dry. Yeah, they will suck your money, dry your health, dry your mind, dry your peace dry, joy dry, and time let it go, suck it right out. So I'm here to tell you you watch out for those vampires now, just like you see in the movies. That's what they do insidious, and by the time you see it you know wasting, squandered so much money, time, energy, spirit and all of that.
Speaker 1:So think peace, what you know? One thing that is a trigger for peace with me when I look at um and I'm looking at it now, you can't see me, but I have the tv, a big screen on tv, where the rolling waves and you hear seagulls, you just, it's just so nice sunset, where the waves are hitting the beach and and just calm, that's what, uh, that's what makes me, triggers my peace. So if I see this body of water, the ocean is, the slam dunk, it could be a river, a lake, a bay or something like that, it could be any of those things, maybe even a swimming pool where it's calm and clean, and I say, okay, I'm at peace. But if that's an external trigger and now it triggers my internal parts of Michael Caine, where it catches it.
Speaker 1:So my point is it can't just be external. You have. It has to be something internal, because that means good, bad and ugly can change your joy and peace. You know, someone comes, slap you upside the head. Well, that'll stop it Said something unkind, take your money or lie to you or doing something. You have to be, get to a point where it's internal, where you capture the good and not the bad and not the ugly. You just absorb that because that could be a reality. Maybe it's a bad day, maybe you didn't do the project on time or there was an error or something, and those days will happen. I'm not here to say, if you say it's not going to happen, it doesn't happen. No, that's just foolishness. You're going to encounter resistance, encounter trouble, encounter some obstacles in life. You will. Anyone says any different. They're lying to you. But what am I saying? It's how you deal with it.
Speaker 1:So this picturesque beat scene that I just described to you, what is your thing that could trigger that peace? So many things trigger our anger, our sadness, depression. What triggers the joy and the peace? Some of you may be God, amen. It could be a combination of different things. It could be a combination of different things, A friend, someone that always gives you a reason to be happy. Okay, okay.
Speaker 1:So can you have peace without realizing your goals? Yes, and you should. How do you think you reach your goals faster? It's not. Woe is me being a victim playing some card, an appropriate card. You know I won't go down that list. Yeah, you could be content today. Yeah, but still not achieved all that you had hoped for.
Speaker 1:You can't say, well, once I get it, I'll be happy. I see a lot of people. They're not necessarily do you say that, but they do it. That's what they really feel inside. Well, until I get my 40 acres and a mule, my mansion, the Ferrari or whatever car choice, until I get that, I just won't be happy and content, which may be the cause of you not getting those things. Possibly. Or when you get them, you're not going to be fulfilled because your heart and mind is not in the right place.
Speaker 1:Stuff Again, you're not in the right place. Stuff Again, you're not taking stuff with you. So what else you got? Okay, you got a mansion. You got 20 cars. What else you got? You got 10 horses. You got this, you got all the booze in the world, and you know what comes along with all this stuff and you're still miserable. You know a lot of people still commit suicide, that have everything most people would want and kill for or die for, yet they kill themselves why it's not enough stuff.
Speaker 1:Hopefully you realize that before you don't run out of time, and so it's important to stay in the present, in the moment, today, and be as content, not just accepting, just to stay where you're at when you have goals, yeah. Yeah, if you want to earn a million dollars or whatever, yeah, you pursue what you want to pursue. If you want to travel around the world that's your measure of success then do it Today. Plan for that future. Yeah, don't throw everything on a credit card 100,000 on a credit card, travel and then you're broke and homeless, lose everything. That'd be foolish. So measure it out, but do things today which Enable you to what? Simply smile. You know people that smile. That is a measure of contentment, joy and and success.
Speaker 1:We all measure success and define it differently. Some of you just have to have a billion dollars to define it, and so be it. The problem with that is you don't get it. Where did that leave you? Okay, so just food for thought. Look at how you define things. I redefined, I flipped the script and started defining things important to me differently, because if you don't have those things, oh yeah, you can't be happy, you can't smile, can't have joy, can't have peace. So I changed the definition of what peace and joy mean to me. I didn't sell out or sell down, I just reprioritize with the thought of I'm not going to live forever, so why am I going to be miserable the next 20, 30 years of my life? That wouldn't be good.
Speaker 1:Now some of you are going through some serious things. Most people that don't have a happy life probably have a bad relationship somewhere, or some friend that screwed you out of some money or time or something, or a partner, a personal partner here, a business partner, or be work-related or be significant other-related. You felt wronged, maybe, and maybe your health is faltering, and I've been there, done that, and you're not in a good spot and we've all been there, most of us have been there. So I don't want to diminish that and if that's happening to you some serious issues I really or in any case, I encourage you to see professional counseling. I don't get professional counseling here. I'm giving you my opinion and my experience and my observations. That's what I'm giving you my opinion and my experience and my observations. That's what I'm giving you today.
Speaker 1:So it's up to you to take control of your life, take your life back, because I sold mine to the devil and, figuratively speaking, or literally, I don't know, you never know and I got my life back. Yeah, that's right. I'm proud of that, because it took a lot of effort to wean yourself off of negativity and vampires. It really is. It's very challenging and if you have a big support system, it's even that more challenging. So you got to listen to your heart, listen to and watch the reality, what's happening, because you know what. Anybody can talk and say a big game, but it's what they do. Watch what people do. Does it match? Is it in alignment with what they say? And if it isn't, and it's up to you make a decision what you want to do.
Speaker 1:So I don't have any more time in my life for nonsense and people that are trying to hurt me or at least don't wish me well. See, there's different categories of bad folks in your life the ones that just don't want you to succeed because they're jealous. They may not try to stop you, but they're not happy and they won't clap for you and they want you to be as miserable as they are. Then there's the other people that are on the deepest level of hell, a demon, basically, that actually tries to stop you by lying about you, gossiping about you. Definitely know those devils and they know, I know, and I may just call a couple of them out one day. We'll see how that works out.
Speaker 1:I should just let it go. See, stirring the pot? Stirring the pot? Just let it go. Let it go, elsa, let it go. So anyway. So check yourself and say am I in the right frame of mind, am I in the right zone to move toward a positive outcome, meaning ie to get your goals to achieve them? And it'd be a piece of where you're at now, not just in the future.
Speaker 1:We don't know how long we're going to live. I'm not trying to be negative, we're just going to die. We were born, we live, we die. So don't see it if this is natural progression. No one's an immortal here. As far as I know, I haven't met one. Maybe I did, maybe they're out there, I don't know. But but just food for thought.
Speaker 1:My friends and I do want to thank you for taking the time to listen to my podcast and supporting me. Thank you, whatever continent on this thing called Earth, planet called Earth. Wherever you are, I appreciate you and I know we all want essentially the same things, and I thank you for spending the time with me and I encourage you to buy my book Slaying your Dragons Living the Life you Always Wanted. The e-book is fairly inexpensive on Amazon I think I'm still on Barnes Noble too, where you can get it electronically, and then with paper bound is the next level of inexpensiveness. Either one of those is fine, but e-books I'm trying to get the digital sales up. Okay, no pressure, but anyway it helps support the channel even more, actually, and so thank you to listeners that listen to Apple, iheartradio, spotify the big three, no particular order there and other wonderful platforms out there.
Speaker 1:I appreciate you and livingyoursuccesscom, my website, but Amazon, go live a life you always wanted and I appreciate you on that and tell people about this podcast, appreciate it, and we're going to, as we always do. You know different topics of what success is. You know we do talk about. You know investing, saving and a lot about relationships, a lot about what your motivation is. We do talk about investing, saving and a lot about relationships, a lot about what your motivation is and things you can do to move forward. So, at any rate, I appreciate all of you and check my podcast out, hit those notifications and sign up. That said, I wish you all well. My friends, this is Michael Caine, living your success 24-7. Adios amigos.
