How to Build Your Ideal Lifestyle

Hello my friends. I'm Brendon Burchard, host of the Brendon show and founder of growthday.com and I'm honored to be your high performance coach today. I believe that every day we can be inspired. We can live with intention and purpose. We can bring the joy and honor the struggles of each day to push ourselves to grow, to serve, to be a role model, to lead extraordinary lives. I believe that every day is a great day to grow. That's why I started my company, growthday.com it's an online personal growth platform where you can get me and the world's best personal development teachers live coaching you every week, sharing our wisdom, keeping you motivated and accountable, encouraging you to find the aliveness and the connection and meaning of life that we're all after. If you're not a member yet, please go sign up@growthday.com and join our huge worldwide community of achievers. For less than a dollar a day, you get the world's best teachers live every week. And look, you've probably known for a long time that you needed some expert guidance, an inspired community and life changing tools. So please, your breakthrough awaits you@growthday.com now let's get to today's episode. My friends, please listen closely. Maybe you take some notes so you remember these insights of personal growth and share this episode with three of your friends because we all have to share more positive messages in the world today. So share this with three friends just like you who are committed to their personal growth. And also be sure to tag me or DM me on Instagram. Rendon Burchard, join our million plus community there on Instagram so I can say hi. Thanks again for listening.

Now let's begin. A habit that I have is building my life for lifestyle. I know not everyone likes the phrase lifestyle entrepreneur or a lifestyle business, but.

I thought from day one I'm like.

Why would I not have a good lifestyle and what does that mean to me? And I'm continually revisiting that as a habit. What does a good lifestyle mean? Well, it means different things for people. Some people, you know, that means that they just have control of their morning. Like me. I like to have my morning routines. That's a good lifestyle for me because my brain works that way. I'm happy that way. So I have a nice morning routine for myself. Some people, their lifestyle thing is, you know, they just want to live in a certain place. For some people, it's how the house is arranged. For some people, it's how much money they earn. For some people, it's where they go travel. For some people, it's just what they focus on each day, what their purpose is or their intent is. I don't know what yours is, but I know what mine is. And the habit of continually questioning, is this choice going to help or hurt my lifestyle? And some of you guys know these stories from my events. Sometimes I tell them as I'm going through events about how I'm making decisions in life and how it's hard. Sometimes you have opportunities that seem so good. But I teach this formula how whatever deal or opportunity you're chasing or presented with, always check against your mental sanity and your lifestyle preferences. If you knew how many deals I've turned down, you'd think I'm crazy. But I look at those. I got offered major network television shows. I mean, huge shows by super famous producers and production companies. But I could see that that would make a life that I didn't like. It was not the workload or the lifestyle that I wanted because I knew the top people. I knew what Oprah's schedule was and I knew what Anderson Cooper's schedule was and I knew what Dr. Phil's schedule was. And I was like, oh, I get that. That's for them. That's not the lifestyle I like. I like too much. I like too much of my own time. And when you're a network, you're there at like 5am and it's like producer meetings, ratings meetings, show meetings, you know, debrief meetings, planning the next day. It's like you're there from 5:00am till 10:00 clock at night if you're lucky. And I was like, ah, I can't do that. I like more time with family, friends, reading, and I like a lot of extra time during the day to wander around like a nutty professor just thinking about stuff, you know, that's not, that's, I can't do that one. And so a lot of decisions were made that from, from movies to shows to stages to partnerships that just if I filter through my lifestyle thing, because really what do I need? What's my ideal lifestyle? Well, a book, a pina colada and some sushi. Ain't that much, y'.

All.

So, you know, when you know it's important, it's like it doesn't cost me any money to spend the afternoon with my wife.

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I know what my lifestyle is, and I love that. I just won't compromise on lifestyle for external extrinsic rewards. And that's a habit. And by the way, if this sounds like I'm braggadocious, no, this is like one of the things I struggle with the most. It's why I made one of those months of pro workshops on the topic of setting boundaries. I was like, I wonder how everyone else does this. I want to make sure I do a really good job. Because if you feel like your lifestyle is not super great, don't think it's about money, it's about boundaries. And this is really important. And this is the fundamental question here. Do you sense that you have your own way of doing things? Are you doing parenting in your way or just like your parents did? Are you doing business in a way that you like, not the way that everyone else in the suits around you did or told you to do it? Like when I was a consultant in a major company, like 70,000 employees when I first started out of college and everybody kind of walked and talked. They all came out of these MBA schools. I never went, never did that. I had my master's in organizational communication, but I didn't have an MBA. And they all walked, talked, they all had BMW 3s. At the time, I don't know, it seemed like all these new consultants got these BMW 3s. I thought, man, I am not going to spend my money on a car. And I lived in San Francisco. I was like, I don't even need a car. I can't even afford the parking on a car. What is going on with these people? But they came out of fancier schools or fancier families sometimes. And, and I just thought, you know, I'm going to do this my own way. So I didn't make slides like they made slides. I didn't structure things the way they. I did my own thing. And it was rewarded because it was like authentic. And even though it wasn't always perfect or good or even notice I'm not even judging, it was even better then. It was just my thing. It's like it's a habit of mine not to get it right. It's a habit of mind to ask the question, how does this impact my lifestyle? And is that the lifestyle I desire? Is that the time, energy, effort, future value, present experience that I want or will that pull me away from that? And this is a conversation that you may have heard me describe separately in high performance habits under the term of alignment, the habit of aligning to the lifestyle and the future that you want. And when I'm in alignment with that, because I asked the questions, life is better.

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