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23: We Built The Lives We Thought We Wanted, Now We're Dreaming Even Bigger

23: We Built The Lives We Thought We Wanted, Now We're Dreaming Even Bigger

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  Welcome back to another episode of Broke is Boring. Today we're gonna talk about how we built the lives we thought we wanted, but now we're dreaming even bigger. Is it possible to just continue to set goals? You know, if you, you set a goal, you, you achieve it, and then are you done? I think the answer has to be no. I actually find this to be in my business a lot because there's different ranks and so you strive so hard for one rank, you finally hit it, but you never just stop. Don't run to the rank, you run through it because then you go to the next one and the next one and you're, and Dan was like, so you're gonna stop when you hit that this one, right? And and I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. That's six figures. I don't need anything more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll stop then. Then you hit it and you're like, Ooh. But the next one is gonna open up even more doors and possibilities. And what I realized is like helping other people. Hit their goals in their business and their ranks in their business. Only just bring me up further and it becomes this kind of like win-win. And then it makes me never wanna stop. And I'm really struggling with this, honestly, like between you and me I retired my husband that well first, no. My first goal in my business when, which I started seven years ago, was to make the same, I would pay for daycare. Mm-hmm. So that way I knew, okay, if I wanna stay home when I have kids, I can. Then I hit that in the first couple months and then I said, okay, let me match my teaching salary. That was my next goal. We've talked about that. $38,000. I did that in my first year. Perfect. Done check. I can do that again, and now I can have this business be my primary income. If I want it to be approved to myself, I can. Then after I did that, my goal was to retire my husband. To, to get to an income level in my business where we would have that option because he was always super miserable in his finance job. And so that was a really big stretch goal that we hit last year. And so we decide, so when we booked this world cruise, it gave us a deadline. It gave us a specific date where we said, okay, he has to retire by that date so we can do this world cruise. And that's just kind of like putting all those pieces into action. Right. So then. I hit six figures in my business, which actually wasn't my goal. Again, money is never my goal. It's always what the money can do for me. It's always a tool. So hitting six figures was not actually a, a goal like it, it was part of it, part of the equation, but it wasn't the goal. So then last year, the day before his 40th birthday, Dan had his last day of work. It was awesome. He rode his bike in and rode, you know, was coming into the driveway and was like, meet, meet with this little, oh, I love that, that it was this little bike thing. That was fun. Okay, so then it was Dan retire and then we want to eventually planned a flag in Europe. So last summer we purchased a home in Ireland. For a variety of reasons, Ireland was the best place for us to plant that European flag. So. So I'm like, oh my God. Okay. I left my job, I made my income, I made enough that Dan could retire. I, I have a mom. I'm a mom of a healthy, happy, sweet kid. We now have this home in Europe. We're on this four month world cruise like. What is next for me? Like I, I'm actually struggling with this because I feel like I've, I have everything I've ever wanted and I, this is the first time in my life I haven't had like a huge life goal that I'm working toward. It's been so fun to watch you go through that, like understanding on the crews, you know, you, you and Dan kind of talked through this like you guys have been really successful at setting goals. Same with Marco and I and achieving them. So in our life, people will always come up to us and say, Hey, what have you guys got going on? Because they always know we have something going on. I'm gonna have something interesting to tell you and. That we're in the exact same position with you right now. When we go back, what do we have going on? What is the next thing? Our rental properties are doing great, and they all have brand new HVAC and roof and plumbing and electric. All the things that we have dealt with, all that sexy stuff. So many years. You know, when we were on the world cruise while there was like bad weather back in Indiana. This was the first winter where we weren't like, oh no, what is gonna happen now? You know, it's rainy again. What is going to flood? And knock on wood, we got through the entire season and it was like, oh my gosh, we did it. Like we have good sustainable properties. This is going well. Well now what is next? Hold on. I do wanna point something out though, because I feel like we're in the one percenters of the people who actually hit make, make that goal and then say, okay, what do I have to do to hit that goal? A, B, C, D. Okay, let me do A, B, C, D. Like, what Gene do you and I have what? Like. ...
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