Jon Butcher spent 30 years chasing external wins: four kids, three grandchildren, 100+ countries, multiple businesses. Now he's moving to a remote Pacific island to rebuild his life around inner fulfillment instead of achievement.
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It's been an absolute joy to move from one extraordinary life vision consciously into the next one, which is very, very different. We're just sort of at the beginning of it and we're having the best time ever. My wife and I are in the process of building our second full life vision. And building our first one was absolutely amazing. We lived in Chicago for 30 years. We traveled the world, we've been to more than 100 countries together. We built beautiful places. We had the most extraordinary life for 25 years. I consciously crafted life vision, raised four kids and three grandkids, just had the most amazing time, extraordinary love relationship, just. I mean, I couldn't have written a better script. And if I could have, I would have, and it would have been in my lifebook and we would have achieved that. It was just an absolutely wonderful ride. Well, four or five years ago, we decided that it was time for something new. I mean, we'd basically achieved everything that we ever set out to achieve. All of our dreams had come true and we were ready for something very, very different. We looked around us at that time, at the way the world was going, and we did not particularly like what we saw. Things were getting more and more toxic with regard to the political situation out there. It just seemed like. It just seemed like negativity was getting more and more acute and we just didn't like the direction that everything was headed. So we sat down and we started to craft a brand new life vision. Whereas our last life vision was very materialistic. And I don't say that in a discouraging way. We really lived a beautiful material life. We had gorgeous places, we lived a life of luxury, we lived a life of passion. We lived a life of romance, love with our children. But it was very. It was very materialistic and it was very busy. We started a lot of companies together, we had busy, big lives. We knew that this next iteration, this next chapter was going to be a little bit slower, a little bit more introspective, more about in here than out there. Right. A little bit more philosophical, probably. And so we decided to move to a remote Pacific island and literally start over from scratch. Design brand new home and build it from the ground up and just completely, literally reimagine our lives. Like how we spend the hours of our days completely different. The things that we focus on every day, completely different. You know, 2020 was a very, very difficult year for a lot of people. But for Missy and I, it was absolutely wonderful. This year has been the best year ever for us. We are happier than we've ever been. We're more content and more fulfilled than we've ever been. And we're just now at the beginning of building this new life vision. So more reports on that soon. We hope you enjoyed this video, and if you'd like to learn more about Lifebook, check the link in the description below and watch our free masterclass, which describes the entire Lifebook methodology. You're going to love it.
