greatest idea.

When I think about thinking my future self. Obviously, what comes to mind is I just wanna, Thank him for. We're just going through a struggle. Just going through those. the struggles of life. And, they're all the temptations and all the sacrifice that he had made,

the people that he had

to talk

to

along the way, the mentors he had to

have and all the experience that he got

from.

Friends.

And a family. As well as people in the industry just. just a constant learner. I just want to thank him. That's the main thing I want to thank him for always learning, always trying to learn from people, always trying to better himself, even on the days where people even got on his nerves. That were close to him, but you always realize that was for the best.

there are some days.

that were you guys talking to me and you guys were just frustrated me, but I always go back and look on it. dude,

We all have each other's back. You're doing it because you're trying to help. we're always trying to help each other. Oh, we got her.

I remember that.

So

Sometimes.

they do.

It doesn't seem like it sometimes.

But You can't take things so serious at the same time. Cause we're all human and we all make mistakes. So we're all just, just doing the best we can. What we think is right. That's just one way. I always look at it. So when I think about, thinking my future self. I just want to thank them for.

Just going through. The. Basically going through the mud, as they would say. Is it always, this. Being, like I said, a lifelong learner. Keep 'em. Learning from people. And just staying discipline. The dis discipline is a big aspect as well.

No doubt. No doubt. That's big time. If anything. Like discipline is one of the greatest thing that I'm going to be able to think Mikey's yourself, I'm learning on warning to be able to gain that I'm trained in that aspect. this going through daily life in, in general. I want to be able to thank my future self on the fact on having the non-queer mentality. cause there's so many times, and there's so many.

States in my mind. Where it was like, It's better off. If I do not continue.

But for me to continue. Is the best toys. And that's why I want to thank my future self because I had made a decisive decision on to continue. And being persistent. And so for you to be able to gain that last, like I was saying, there is with that

self-discipline

aspect, You gotta be able to self discipline on your cell, on to training your mind on, to be able to continue onto the steps on what your goal on what the goal you're trying to accomplish. And it for me. Like I'm really big on family. I'm really big on family. And I'm really big on the fact that I want to be able to represent myself as a great.

son as a great, brother as a great feature husband and as a great teacher dad, and I want to be able to get back. I want to be able to get those characteristics down in pack. And to be able to. Have the influence. On our, not just me, but the people around me, And so that's really big and just never,

ever

giving up and just not having. The. The mindset of just a quick, I really do want to take my future South on that.

That's pretty powerful.

Breath.

Let me just say first off. I'm grateful for you. Killing me.

Okay.

And I know that probably sounds crazy, but killing the man that I am today. Even the old to you as the old it's the Ooh. The guy that. What's a procrastinator that the guy that say one thing, but then. 90% of the CYO shoe too. Bye.

That was at 10% that matter. But the guy that had big dreams.

Play.

Wouldn't go out and achieve it, even though they had, it sounded for it. And I appreciate you telling me. I appreciate that. I'm so grateful for you doing that. I'm happy to lay down in my casket, knowing that the best person, the best version of myself. It's living, Like for me, it's huge. to be like, I am a great father, not.

But I know you'll be even better.

like the things that I've learned throughout these were 32 years. These are the things that I've learned. Don't even compare to the things that you achieve with the knowledge and wisdom that I was given. No,

I'm

grateful for that. And actually taking heed to it. Now that's a big thing. I know me personally, I, sometimes I get advice and I don't take heed to it. Sometimes I get advice and is I look at the other person and I'm like, eh, you ain't going to do. And then who did it?

So I ain't gonna really take too much of you to it. But you look at past it, look at past the person and say, and looking at the value of the words that are being spoken. I think that for that I'm grateful. for the husband mentioned ended up becoming, cause I know I was an okay husband. no, not really. I wouldn't, I wasn't the best husband in the world.

But. the head, you will learn what it meant to actually deal with a female, and to be able to deal with not just a female, but to deal with a partner. I like partner look at it from that perspective. No. I know to you. Is it just a time capsule? just something to look back on and say, Oh yeah, I was there at one point.

but for me, this is a hell of a stepping stone. You notice is this is the. It's a big point for me. up at 10 now, me and these guys have talked about, how the podcast is edifying us. it has made us better. And I'm grateful for that, but I know if those ones that we did prior to this at a five, me, the ones that we do after this.

God bless you. And I'm sure that the people that you gone bless, it's going to be great. I know the kids that you're going to look after and take care of him and speak to. It's gonna change their lives in ways that I can't even imagine right now, I can't even predict how it's going to be. But I do know that from the man that I am right now and the goal of the bands that I have right now,

I

know you gotta be better. You

have to be right. if I'm doing anything,

you being grateful for anything, it's

the fact

that.

You bury me.

So

thank you for that.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's a different podcast. Yeah,

sure. Yeah.

It's

a.

isn't.

it.

Talk to your future self is

important.

Yeah.

I had that conversation with yourself,

like really had that

conversation. Like

the man that

I want to be,

who am I going

to be?

What do I stand

for? What values do I

really

uphold?

how do I dress?

How

people

see me?

all

these things matter,

more than.

To make sure that we're staying true to our values as we were growing

up.

Knowing who we are, knowing the values that we stand for. Exactly. Yeah, it's tough.

Especially

in the toughest of

times. Yeah. That's what really makes you your

character. Oh, that's

it. Not

only that in the, in Dan environment that we're in right now to the times that we're in right now, Oh, So we're in a social media time where it's still new. it's been a digital

age.

Yeah. It's still new, but Sometimes the person that you portray yourself to be on social media, isn't who you are in real life. And it takes away. you create a separate character from who you are. That is the thing. So making sure that you're staying true to yourself while you're posting things. Portraying to

the

world. Yeah. I find it. I have to take a break from sometimes, cause I started to lose myself in it. Like most people do Alright. I agree 100% because this for me, I like to be

in tune to what

I'm truly am

and to

who I'm true.

I'm trying to be

because with the whole

information that we got going on our phones and on the computers and so forth like that, I feel like it's just so much stuff. That's. As put into our heads of what life should be like. You know what I mean? When from somebody else's perspective. Prospective clients have not actually really living that life. You know what I'm saying? Definitely. And that's that's. That's what put in perspective for me of okay, I see what's going on here. And I need

figure,

I need to prioritize my life on

I

want to be able to, to take control. You know what I mean? I want to be able to take control of my life and to be able to steer in a direction where I see myself to be happier. where I see myself to feel accomplishing. and I know that for a fact that I'm going to need to build up my character values, being, having integrity, being honest, I'm holding myself up on Upwork value to carry on. My legacy. And so that's, it's really, it's really crucial to having that standpoint, that, perspective. To be solidified for you. another thing is I read a lot of books. All right. I'm in, I'm a big advocate of books, and even information and none can. if you're not careful, when you read me your soap, so much of it in that she could come back and you become part of that board and put book becoming part of you, Now, whether that's a good thing, a bad thing. It depends on the information in the book, but not losing yourself in any type of information. It don't matter what book it is. It don't matter. even in your religion, it's the same thing, not losing who you are when you're dealing with your religion. It's the same concept. All didn't like being true to yourself happening, having that integrity within yourself.

RO

there's more, there's so much value in just that line alone. Like just that line. I thank him alone. Like growing up it's tough. Cause you still learn it yourself. even I know people that's 30, 40, 50 years old. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. You see it through their actions, as you see it through, when would the people that they deal with? for instance, I know, this woman, she does not, she still doesn't understand, like she keeps picking all these bad guys. So she'll pick the bad guy and she's I don't understand why every man does me like this. And I'm like, There is like a consistent, like a Lake. What's the word I'm looking for? it has a consistent, component in this equation that we have going on. You get with a guy and you get what a guy. The same type of dude, not only that, but there's obviously something there when it comes to you too. You're not changing. No, she's not saying she doesn't shoot. When I talked to her, she's alright, nah, she never accepts any wrong. She just, she doesn't think she did it. She's I took care of them up, but I'm like, yeah, but. Maybe Dan, have you taken to Europe? Yeah. You don't know yourself. Cause if you knew yourself, you would understand that. Okay. boom, this is happening, but it's because of this as well. It's because of wine as well. I have to say. And that's. Taking full responsibility for who you are, is extremely important. That's part of your integrity is being honest with yourself, and honest with your. flaws. Yeah. When dealing with your future self, you can't. Self-awareness yeah. It's big to how you grew up. How you tell your future self become the magnitude? No need to become. I agree. I have to be fully aware of things that you do right. And things that you do wrong. in order for you to grow in order to like search strategize where you need to go, how can you fix this area? Or how can you just make this area continue to get stronger? And no, yeah. I agree with you 100%. No one, what are you trying to go in? Yeah, that's extremely important because when you know what you're trying to go at, who you need to become to be there. and not along the way you slowly become that. And if it's not part of that plan, To a degree, there are some things that, you can't plan, but if it's not part of that plan, don't accept it. Don't do it. Don't be it. If that these

females that you're dealing with, I'm just using that for an example, because it's easy for a lot of people to understand. if you know the type, if you want a wife,

And, what type of wife you want, in the values that you want her to hold true to.

You know that somebody

girls,

ain't gonna cut it.

if you're dealing with shorty over here,

She ain't finna amounts of that. She can't be that. So she's not that. So that's interrupting your plan from getting where you're trying to go at.

Same concept with the people that you do. if you know that, Hey, I want to end up here. And

people

that I'm dealing with only go from have a small mindset and always down to you and saying, Oh, bro, you ain't going to be there. And that's it.

I look at reality that you can't do that because of this, and this. If

always

doing that.

You probably need to cut them off as well in order to get to where you're trying to go with, even it could even be your family members. It could be your moms. It could be your props.

that's true.

That's the hardest part.

Yeah.

You can find a way, what is it long handled spoon feeding when Lauren had a spoon.

Sometimes you have to do that.

in order for you to be the best person you want to be.

Yeah.

I agree 100% with two guys on that.

And what came to my mind is that.

I

like

that what most people deal with. even for me, is that.

I'm stuck in a mode of being and,

to

I'm stuck in a mode of being in a same person.

A crazy person, I should say.

Dealing with insanity.

And basically what that boils down to is that.

I'm trying to be honest, I has said is I'm doing the same exact thing and trying to expect different results from it.

And.

To be true, which it, that ain't going to work and they ain't gonna cut it. It's not going to cut it.

You going to need to figure

exactly

who you are, who you're trying to be calm, just like Jermaine was saying.

And you need to put in action that place of, okay. I need to get myself around these people or I need to start doing this. I need to start reading this.

When you start listening to

this,

I needed to put myself in a position where I'm going to be able to.

Help my future self. So I can be able to get different results than who I was. I'm glad you said that. I'm glad you said it, man. Like helping your future self, make it easier for your future self.

Make it easy, don't complicate the situation when you don't have to, if there's a way that you can bless yourself ahead of time.

The best way to bless yourself is an agile that you do now in the present.

To equal up to the things that you want in the future.

That's pretty that's basically where it be was You're saying, I think

extremely

important if you could just grasp that concept. Like the, now the present.

Is the future.

Or if you can grab that concept.

And.

There's a balance of that.

Cause he can't just have one, most people say to your perspective,

Before they do something stupid. You gotta be thinking of the.

How this is gonna affect you in the future.

Alright, you can just make a bad decision and say, I'll do what it would have happened.

And then moment comes or I wasn't expecting this. Yeah.

Yeah.

You gotta be figuring out how will this help you? No matter what decision you make, do you have to, how does this help me?

To our need to go. That should be most people's minds with it.

if it doesn't help you, if it's not going to help you to get you towards your end goal, then you have no time for it. You

flat

out have no time for it at all.

So that being said, I

would just

hope that most people do what's in their best interest.

to get themselves to need to be where they need to be.

make the actions that help them grow. Talk to.

Talk to the people that need, they need to talk to half the uncomfort uncomfortable conversations that they didn't need to have.

In order to grow.

Cause that's another part of it.

The

emotional stability

that you need to have in order to grow. Cause there's going to be some very tough conversations along the way in order for you to grow, but you can't run from it.

You just gotta deal with it.

Absolutely. Absolutely

B.

Conscious and extremely aware of. The quality of the advice that you give to others. And hold true today. I don't tell somebody some stuff that you ain't going to do. don't don't you wish your time setting may cause they going to be looking like.

Yeah. If you not gonna hold you to it. I can't tell you to grow if I refuse to grow, because you're going to be looking at me.

I don't know about that. Do the same thing with the.

Good kids. I coach I told them about it.

I'm going to tell you to do something I can't do exactly Too much. I don't want

Assad

should be. That's how I should be. they, how I term it is basically like unsolicited advice. You know what I mean? if you're not a position to give me that advice, don't give me that advice at all. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's true.

And so it was just how, that's just how it is. just think about it. So imagine a bone, you see this guy On the street or it, And he's trying to give you advice on how to manage your money. Now is on one hand. What we're saying right now is, Hey, look, don't take your vice from that. The only take advice from him, cause obviously he'll know how to handle his money.

But.

True. truthfully. Think about it. If he tell you all the things that he did wrong, and you do the opposite of that, he could be the best person. That's the best advice you could have.

So I want to, I'm playing devil's advocate on that side, just because I know that there's times where I get information and that's why I say a bank to my future self, because I get information about, like somebody that comes to me and they're like, Duh. And I'm like, yo.

Either holding true to that. Like you don't believe. In that. But. You're right. That's why it's so important to take heat to the device itself. Even in the step and go pass the person.

you have to go pass that person. I'm not learning comes from everywhere. I'm not taking away from Dave. Bi-State beat him. Just say, cause I'm gonna st. I'm on the same wall. Which car would it be in prime when it comes down to, looking at the person as wedding, you do need to pay attention to who telling you this advice. Cause they're awesome.

People that give you some messed up advice. If you're not paying attention, if they got a flaw care, extremely flawed character, please pay attention to that. Okay. So that's that I'm not taking away from that, but am I also want to bring it to the point that just listen to their advice? And if it's helpful to you.

Take it, if it's not helpful to you discard it and keep on moving, maybe it'll come to me late on. That's important.

And I think one of the things that, That we could be able to touch on real quick. Is this that the FA the action steps that were taken. today. So if somebody is in a situation right now and they're not. Where they're expected to be. So let's say for instance, like for me, I had made a. back when I was 18 years old, I made a five year goal plan.

And I expected myself to be living in California in a beach house mansion. You know what I mean? I'm having a family, And to this day on 25 years old and not, I'm not there yet. and I could tell you, I'm probably not even close to be there.

The vice that I could give to people who had made those types of, goal plans and so forth like that. What like, this is what I can say. Do you guys like, even for me, I'm speaking to myself, is that. You need to be able to. We were talking about this before, is that.

Where we are today, right?

It's from the access that we made previously down the road. Like back then. Is what put us in this position today. if you're not in that position where you haven't reached your goal, yet as of today, let's start right now. To make those acts and plans. To put you in that position. Five to 10 years down the road. Absolutely.

You know what I mean slowly. And so I'm just really preaching to myself right now,

Correct.

Because it's happened to me. It is happening to me. And Right now. let's regroup. Reorganize. and to be able to. Put acts in plays into, in, into. N into and to progress and to move in. To where we could be able to, Better position ourself down the road. Yeah.

No. I know we were talking about that. Previously. Yeah, it was talking about. What I was saying was, the past is what makes the present and the present is what makes the future. And

that's

the simplest way to break it down. So everything that you've done in the past, every action that you did, it led to the present, and then everything that you do in the present is what the future is. So right now I am a future cell from when I first started about guys.

And everything that I've said and done up until this point. Is now in the bass, right? The second pass. So it's in the past, you know what I'm saying? but everything I do from this point on. Determines how my future is going to lay yourself out. Sorry, constant. So constantly, making the future.

I'm actually making a future right in front of your eye to create in the future.

when you look at it from that perspective, you saw, look at the future self. As it's not a distant idea, it's not a distant person. It's a current.

Is the current person that he's in the next second. You know what I mean? Like that person is the next second day that man that you want to be as a net second, Like the value that you want to hold true to comes in the next second. Cause everything

equally.

thoughts, all into action, everything. Yeah, exactly right.

Yeah, that's.

yeah, we did have that conversation and it was funny cause I was explaining it. And, it was like, what do you mean. Tell me about what your future self is your present self and your present self is your pass. You'll pass out. Don't even exist anymore. What's. So I kept going to it.

Froms like, man, listen, bro, you don't have to break it down so much. He's like you get on it. You get on top. You break it down and break it down. yo, I just won't. A seven year old to kinda understand what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah. True. And I do notice that. When I pass away and I'm sitting back and I'm reminiscing on my, past life, I want to make sure that I said everything that I could say at every moment that I had a chance to so that whoever was with me or around me at that time, they'd got.

They can't say that I didn't spit it out to them. You know what I'm doing? And I can't say that I didn't push as hard as I could to not even push as hard as I could, but clarify as much as I could. The concepts and ideas that I had in my head at that time. Cause I knew that maybe it might've not been that important at that moment in time, but down the road is a C at a sit at the side of the hand regardless, and it'll grow.

Yeah. Breaking it down. It's extremely important. It's critical to the way that are moving thing. Yeah. It's going to affect your future self. Exactly. Exactly. That's big time, man. It's big time.

Excellent. like all of us, I just want to give us a great gratitude to our future self. and to really think. who we are today, us as men, you know who we are today, because. I wouldn't be here. without the. Just the stewardness that I had put in place.

Today. And so I do want to thank. really you want to think, my past and my future self,

There was a moment. months ago where this wasn't even a dream, it wasn't even possible at. All right. And I'm sure we talked about it before on how we can, how we ended up getting together.

Yeah. This right here is as far as we've ever been.

Like this right here has been a completely different, this is the aspect of like right now, this part of my life is. It's different. It's different. this is the, this is something that's so doing a podcast is so different.

From

Jewish. Like my regular day. I don't know how to explain it. Like it created, like in me, it fired up this. This spark in me that made me like move on the words I was saying, maybe because it was written out of history or like it's recorded now. Yeah. Maybe that's what it is. I'm sure that has a part to do with it. But I think the fact of just coming in doing it.

Has built it because it has Rose. I know we talked about, we had this conversation. Off the podcast. We talked about edification, but man, this thing is built.

There's I don't think I will be the man that I am right now and be running a business. They don't run it at the rate that I'm going right now. If it wasn't for this podcast. I don't think that I would speak as eloquent as I do now, if it wasn't for the podcast, this podcast was thought of when, not this specific one, but we had one that was prior to this.

And when it was prior to it was, we would talk it's crazy. The idea was to find local heroes and had them explain their stores to better help, the youth, find out we will freaking local heroes the whole time. so like for real. Yeah, we've been blessed. We've been able to bless a lot of people. I know me personally, I've been able to bless a lot of people. I know these guys have had just through the podcast, right? So that was one concept with a podcast and then it turned into this.

And this is blessed us so much. If everybody has been listening to all across the world, because by the way, we get to nationally known in case y'all didn't know for sure. Yeah. Like literally as people. VIN lane,

Germany,

Portland.

The list goes on. There's a whole bunch of kingdoms. That's also included Republic. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like it's. Yeah, we're making like there's people that's hearing our voice and that might not get the same opportunity to sit down and use you to how we're able to use YouTube and listen to billionaires talk a millionaire is interviewing things like that. And the only thing that they have is us. So when we come and we give advice,

And we drop in things there's people that would never get a chance to hear that advice. Never. So I'm grateful for the fact that I'm able to reach out and touch other people. I'm not even, I don't even have to know you, bro. I'm glad I could help you SIS. Glad I could help you, bro. You know what I mean?

No doubt. So we gratefully anything. We're grateful for that. We're grateful for getting chance to reach out, like from a spiritual perspective. God has placed us in a spot

we'll

we're able to reach out to everybody. All across the world. That's huge. So please know that when we sit down and telling my story and things of that nature, it's not just coming from us. If you spiritual have you, if you religious or whatever. And if you believe in God, whatever God you believe in.

Just know that they. allowed us to get a chance to meet up and talk. And I'm glad that you got a chance to have voices, And we're grateful.

I'm grateful. I'm grateful to my future. So one last note, I'll say I'm grateful for just going through. This podcast with two great provost and always made sure you always were consistent with it even more time, you might be uncomfortable.

I'm thankful for you always. trying to find what's most uncomfortable and you always try to go past it, even though it's. Not what you want to do at the time. And there's plenty of moments throughout the days where man. Are you going to say it to us? I'll pull that through in the pocket, but it's like the same thing. I've always deal with the rest of my life. If it's uncomfortable, I've got to do it.

I just have to do it. It's like this. That's why I try to make sure I'm like, whenever I get here early, I get here early. I just try to get out the whip. Just prepare myself. And that's pretty much it once again. Thanks. thanks for everything. Your best friend.