Pt 1: The 5 Types of Wealth and Why You Should Prioritise Them | Sahil Bloom
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January 27, 2025
TLDR: Sahil Bloom, an American entrepreneur and writer, shares his personal journey and the consequences of chasing financial success; explains why pushing 'later' often becomes 'never'; discusses how money can buy happiness to a certain limit.

In the first part of an enlightening discussion on the Stompcast, Dr. Alex George welcomes entrepreneur and writer Sahil Bloom to explore the essential concept of wealth that goes beyond mere financial success. This episode dives into Bloom's transformative journey, as he aims to redefine wealth through five fundamental types that encompass a holistic view of prosperity.
Key Takeaways from the Episode
Redefining Wealth: Sahil Bloom emphasizes that true wealth comes from nurturing multiple aspects of life rather than solely pursuing financial stability. The five types of wealth he identifies are:
- Social Wealth: Relationships and connections with others.
- Mental Wealth: Psychological well-being and emotional health.
- Physical Wealth: Importance of physical health and fitness.
- Financial Wealth: Generating and managing money effectively.
- Time Wealth: Valuing and investing time in meaningful activities.
Personal Insights: Bloom recounts his challenging journey through a high-stress career in finance, where despite achieving financial goals, he felt a deep disconnection from loved ones and his own well-being. He shares the pivotal moment - a conversation with a friend that made him realize how little time he had left with his aging parents, leading to a transformative life change.
The Cost of Chasing Financial Success
Sahil candidly discusses the pitfalls of focusing exclusively on financial gains:
- The obsession with external validation and societal definitions of success can lead to spiritual emptiness and strained relationships.
- Many people find themselves on a treadmill, chasing income without recognizing the importance of emotional fulfillment and genuine connections.
The Importance of Time
- One of the episode's core messages is that time is your most precious asset. Bloom stresses that investing time intentionally can reinforce the relationships that fuel happiness and fulfillment.
- He argues that the common narrative of ‘I’ll do it later’ often results in lost opportunities and regrets, highlighting that true engagement with what matters must happen now, not in the nebulous future.
Finding Your Own Definition of Success
Bloom insists that in order to live a fulfilling life, individuals must define what success means to them personally rather than adopting societal defaults. He encourages listeners to examine:
- What matters most to you?
- How are you currently spending your time?
- Are your actions aligned with your values?
Practical Applications
To lead a fulfilled life, consider the following actionable tips:
- Reflect on Relationships: Assess who and what you truly value. Make conscious efforts to nurture these connections.
- Evaluate Time Usage: Regularly check how your daily schedule reflects your priorities and adjust accordingly.
- Set Growth Goals: Focus not only on financial targets but also on health, relationships, and personal satisfaction.
Conclusion
Through his storytelling and insights, Sahil Bloom has opened a discussion that challenges the conventional notion of wealth. He urges listeners to prioritize well-being across all aspects of life. As the podcast approaches its conclusion, Bloom encourages everyone to embrace the beauty of enough, urging listeners not to let the quest for more overshadow present joy.
In future episodes, Bloom will delve deeper into each type of wealth, illustrating how we can successfully integrate these principles into our lives. Stay tuned for more valuable insights on achieving a harmonious, rich life that encompasses all forms of wealth.
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Hello and welcome to the Stompcast with me, Dr. Alex George. This is the podcast where I go for a walk with a guest to find out how we can use their expertise to help us become a healthy version of ourselves mentally and physically. This week I'm stomping with Sahil Bloom. Sahil is a content creator, entrepreneur and writer who is on a mission to redefine what it means to live a wealthy life.
After starting his career in finance, the Hill started posting financial advice on Twitter when it was called Twitter, and has since got 1 million followers on that platform alone. His debut book, The Five Types of Wealth, is a guide on how to change your habits, achieve your goals, and start building a happier, healthier and healthier life. His book comes highly recommended, including by Apple CEO Tim Cook and Andrew Huberman, so you know it's worth a read.
I was also very lucky to get an early copy of the book and I can tell you it's absolutely fantastic. This person has spent the last three years basically talking to like a thousand people from different walks of life to come up with these five types of wealth and I think the things he talks about really does add value.
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My own state in life and my stress and where I was mentally was not conducive to fertility into having a child and so we had struggled for a long time and fortunately
all of the changes in our life ended up resulting in the beautiful blessing of being able to. But that journey, and I feel like the gratitude that we have as a result for having had a healthy little boy has just been, it's been quite magical. It's amazing. Yeah. It was amazing to do. Especially throughout the journey. I guess sometimes a harder journey makes the end. You know, you really say that and you kind of realize the value of it, I guess. I think that's exactly right.
kind of a broader principle for life, right? Like some of the most beautiful things are on the other side of some of the most painful and fertility and struggles to conceive. It's a topic that a lot of people don't talk about publicly. They kind of sort of
burden that people carry and suffer with in silence and I think scientifically it is quite real that your stress levels and your mental state impact sometimes your ability to conceive and so when I look back on it now and I think about the fact that we'd struggled for a year and a half and it was this terrible strain on our relationship unfortunately because my wife was carrying this burden and I wasn't
present with her enough energetically to help carry that, to shoulder my piece of it. And we made this big life change. We moved back across the country to live closer to our families. I left my job. All these changes happened. That sort of unlocked my energy. Suddenly, this huge weight was lifted. And the most beautiful thing was that within two weeks of making that change, we found out that my wife was pregnant.
And I still look back on that. I'm not a particularly religious person, but I look back on that and just think that it was one of those moments where you feel like God sort of winked at you. Something happens in all some ways. Something happens in all some way. Yeah, it all sort of clicked. And when things come into alignment in your life, everything falls into place as it should. So it's been quite a journey.
Well, listen, we've basically started the book. Are we recording already? OK, there we go. So you might have missed the opening question, guys. But I was just asking about Martha, because we saw, well, we often take a break between recording. And there was a lovely little family in there with a little baby. And you know, you're smiling at it. And I spent a bit smiling at it. How you can tell it up, children? Yeah. Smiling at this baby who was beaming back at you. And I guess you commented that once you have a child, you kind of
Yeah, you kind of react to the children when you see them and talking about fatherhood. So, I mean, thank you so much for coming on this podcast. You are very, very far away from home. There's the states being home for you and you're here with us stomping in the park. So thank you so much for joining me and well, immediately starting.
and being so open and vulnerable, it's incredible. So, I mean, we're going to talk about the book, which is obviously launching throughout this episode, because I think so much of it and what you're doing will resonate with everyone listening, I believe it will, certainly will with me, myself. So, thinking about the five types of wealth, which you've identified as social, mental, physical, financial, and time, right? Yes.
So what we're going to do is I thought perhaps in the first part is to kind of hear a bit of the the journey because it is really interesting where you kind of come from in your career and your background, your work into what you're doing now to hear about a bit of how have you come to doing this? Why is there something you care so much about? And then we're going to break down in part two and three those five respected
parts and share some actionable tips with people so that they can kind of take some of those changes into life. Of course they must get a copy of the book because obviously we're going to cover some parts but not the full kind of picture in this episode. Anyway let's get cracking. So yeah I guess that first question is like why? Why and how have you come to the place where you wanted to make this book?
My first 30 years of my life, I spent chasing someone else's definition of success. I had a fair bit of really deep-seated insecurity from a young age that I had convinced myself and I had told myself these stories that I wasn't smart, that I wasn't good enough. And when you feel that type of insecurity,
There is a search that you go on, a chase for external affirmation that will one day allow you to wake up and feel good about yourself. You kind of search for like the external solution to the internal problem. But as a lot of us find out in time on our own path, you can't fix an internal problem with an external solution. It's impossible.
And my early years of my young adult life and my career were exactly that. I was trying to play a game of chasing this more, chasing more and more financial success as a means to that one day waking up and feeling good, feeling like I had accomplished the things that I'd made X amount of money and that the world was going to find me to be a success. And then I was going to wake up one day and poof, feel good, and have arrived.
And unfortunately, what I found on that journey was that while I was meeting many of those external definitions of what a successful life looks like, while I was making more and more money and achieving those things that I thought were going to be happening. You've got to work in the financial world, being what people would say quote unquote successful, right? Exactly. From the outside looking in, I was winning the game. And unfortunately, on the inside, everything was slowly starting to fall apart.
I started to see other areas of my life forming cracks. I was making more and more money. I was winning the game, but my relationships were beginning to suffer. My relationship with my parents was almost nonexistent. I was living 3,000 miles away. And my relationship with my sister had ground to a halt. I had created this dynamic of competition and resentment with her as a result of my insecurity.
My relationship with my wife, as I mentioned, was strained with this struggle that we were having and with the fact that I was so narrowly and my optically focused on this one definition of success, this one thing that I thought to find my worth, that I had lost sight of all of these other things. My health, I was drinking seven nights a week, my mental health. I was in a dark place very lonely.
And it struck me that from the outside looking in, it looked like everything was great, like I was winning the game. But I started to have this sensation that if this was what winning looked like, I had to be playing the wrong game.
And the journey from there, the changes that we made, and frankly, the single conversation that precipitated it, is the journey that has led to this book and this outflowing of this idea that unless you create your definition of success, your own definition, not default into someone else's, unless you create your own, you will never feel successful. You will never feel like you were worth
matches up for what you want it to. It's kind of, I guess, like that thing where if you don't define it, society will define it for you. It's kind of like the relationship, I guess, society has with alcohol. It's kind of that thing of like it's the auto enrollment into the society's idea of fun or living is drinking. But then do we have a question, regardless of whether you think drinking is good or bad, do many of us actually have a question? Is it what I want?
we kind of do it and as it's kind of expected it's almost like you know we grew up this idea of like to have arrived in life you need to be academically successful and you know arrive at a salary job that's giving you this big house and you're going a whole day twice you're skiing like this is this idea of success but who's idea?
Yeah, it's David Foster Wallace, the author gave this commencement speech at Kenyon College many years ago. And he talked about this idea of the default settings of meaning that many of us have in life. And the fact that society and culture basically gives you these
default settings, these assumptions for what matters, and we blindly worship them. We decide that these are the things that matter, but we never actually asked the question. We never asked it for ourselves, what matters to me? What do I actually care about? What are the things, the priorities that I have in this season of my life? And is my life, are my actions on a daily basis, actually built around that?
And the realization came for me, the most profound piece of it in a single conversation. In May of 2021, I was out for a drink with an old friend and we sat down and he asked how I was doing. And I said that it had started to get difficult being as far away from my parents as I was. I grew up very, very close to them. Their health had started to show signs of aging. And he said, how old were they? I said mid 60s.
He asked how often I was seeing them. I said once a year. And he looked me straight in the face and said, okay, so you're going to see your parents 15 more times before they die. Wow. And I just remember feeling like I had been punched in the gut. Gosh, there's my tingles in my throat and my neck. You don't feel it. It's like, wow. The idea of that... Crazy. Sorts. The amount of time you have left.
with the people that you are closest to, the people you love most is so finite, so countable that you can measure it on a few hands.
is just terrifying. And the math is simple. I was seeing them once a year, they're 65, they may live until they're 80, it's 15 more times. And if they live to 80, they've lived a very good life. A very good life. I actually, it reminds me of an image I saw on social media recently of what we think friendship looks like. And it's like this bar of time together, what friendship really looks like. And it's all like the broken down chunks of the bar with lots of big gaps and intermittent things. And you realise that actually
You know, you don't actually have that much time with anyone, really. You know, and then it's like, if you're saying this person's really important to me, or this thing, it could be like, I really, really love nature. I love kayaking. I love kayaking. How many times a year do you go kayaking? It's the thing that you really love. You do it twice a year. So you're saying in the next 10 years, you're gonna do it, you know, 20 times, man. It's a real realization that. It is a deep realization, and it's a realization that
Not all time is created equal. The ancient Greeks had two words for time. They had chronos, which was the idea of linear quantitative time, and they had chyros, which was the idea that certain moments, certain windows actually had more importance. They actually carried more weight, they had texture, they had meaning.
And that is true for our lives. There are certain windows of time during which certain people, certain relationships, certain opportunities are more important. And yet we live in a world where we don't think about that. We don't think about the actual shortness.
of those windows and how important they are. And so we fill our world with ladders. We say, I'll spend more time with my kids later. Or I'll see my parents more later. I'll focus on my health later. I'll spend more time with my friends later. And the reality is that later just becomes another word for never.
because those things are not going to exist in the same way later. Your kids are not going to be five years old later. Your friends are not going to be there for you later if you're not there for them now. Your parents are not going to be alive later, in my case.
And those questions, recognizing that, understanding that time is your most precious asset, that you are literally, when you are young, you are a time billionaire, that you have all of this time, that it is quite literally the only thing that matters, and yet you think about it the least until the very end, when it's the only thing you think about, when you would do anything for more.
Those powerful questions that you start asking yourself when you have a moment like I had are the questions that I want more people to ask. It's why I'm sharing these ideas with the world, why I want people to read this book, why I want them to engage with these ideas. Because the changes that you can start to make in your life, once you ask the right questions,
are dramatic and so impactful on your overall happiness and fulfillment. It's kind of like with that perspective of time as something I read actually quite recently that 80% of the time you spend with your child is in the first five years of your their lives and then the next 20% of
this is them growing up, is up to 18. So, you know, if you're kind of like missing those first five, six years, you're kind of way working all the time, that's such an important time, because obviously then they go into school, and as they get older, they got school, but they got friends after school, or different clubs when the weekends are going to stay at friends' house. And obviously if you get older and older, you notice that as many of us realize, and I guess the realization you had is that you slowly just spend less and less time, and less your purposeful,
Less than less time with your family. And I have that similar thing now. It's like I live here and under my family live in Wales. I see my parents three or four times a year at the moment and that's not enough. They're the people that matter most to me and I see them three or four times a year, which is an honest reflection of it, I guess.
Yeah, I mean, with children, that math is terrifying. When you're a young parent, the way I say it is, there is a 10-year window when you are your child's favorite person in the entire world. And after that, they have new favorite people.
And you become these favorites. That's embarrassing, man. And you become just another person, right? They have best friends, they have girlfriends, boyfriends, partners of their own, children, et cetera. But for that 10-year window, you were really special to them. And yet, we live in a world that tells you, the assumption, the default setting of meaning, is that you should be chasing every more that the world hands you, chasing the most, you know, the new title and promotion, all of those things.
And I'm not arguing that you should stop doing that, that you should give up your professional aspirations and just be present with your kid every moment. But what I am saying is you need to become aware of that precious nature of that time and of that window. And that making deliberate changes to how you think about your presence and your energy during that period has a meaningful impact on how you live in your relationship. And to me, the definition of success is having an adult child that still wants to spend time with you.
And that is built in these first 10 years. That is built during these first 18 years. How you showed up during that window is what sets that future. And so your actions in the present have ripples into the future. Recognizing that, understanding that investments in these areas compound just as well as any financial investment you can make. That is a big mindset shift that more people need to think about.
Take me back to that conversation so you sat down with your friends, you've had a dream together, you've had this moment of like, oh my gosh, like, yeah, I'm seeing them once a year. It might be 15 years, maybe longer, but that's still 10, 15 times. What happened next? Because it's been a huge, you then kind of run on to this kind of journey that's
led you to what you've created here now. But it is a fascinating switch from someone that's, you know, working in the kind of financial world flat out, you know, Stanford drained to going off on that journey. Like, was it just an overnight realization of like, I need to learn about this stuff. I want to go and do this. Like, what happened?
It was a sort of, I think Ernest Hemingway is the one that said, how did you go bankrupt and he answered gradually and then suddenly, slowly and then all at once. My whole journey was sort of that. It was gradually that I had started to experience these negatives in my life, all of these bad things that were happening and then suddenly was that moment, that conversation. And following that conversation the next morning when I woke up,
hungover because I'd had too many drinks with that friend. I told my wife that I thought we needed to make a change. And she knew where we were in life. She understood my energy in the way that I was. And so we did. And in 45 days, we made a dramatic change. We left California, sold our house. I left my job, which I'd been at for seven years. That was a great job. I liked my colleagues. There was a lot of reasons to stay. And we moved back to the East Coast to be closer to our parents, both of our sets of parents.
And that was the start of this journey that has led to this book. That was the start of me trying to figure out if I was playing the wrong game, what was the right one? And that was a long journey. And it was a journey that
was really grounded in trying to understand the human experience. Because what I realized was I started reading all sorts of things. The first thing I did was I'm an academic guy. I'm a type A. I'm going to read and study. I'm going to learn from ancient wisdom and I'm going to learn from self-help books. I'm going to figure out what really matters in life.
And what I found was that to understand something uniquely human, you actually have to immerse yourself in the human experience. You can't read books necessarily to understand that. So I went out and just started spending time with as many people as I possibly could. And over the last three years, writing this, I've probably spent time with thousands of different types of people. And people from all walks of life, I spent time with highly successful CEOs of Fortune 100 companies. And I spent time with factory workers and people working nine to fives that they hate.
children and young adults and you know 90 year olds, 100 year olds, all sorts of people to understand what are the common threads, what are the things that we truly hold value and what are the things that matter to us. And what I learned was that most of us want the same things and it actually has very little to do with money. It's time, people, purpose and health.
Money is an enabler of several of those. It's not nothing. It simply can't be an end in and of itself. I like the fact that you really acknowledge that fact that you're not dismissing finances and say, oh, well, let's just all live on the beach and, you know, no one needs money. Like, you're not doing... No.
But it's one of the five types. Yes, rebalancing that, because it's so true. It's like, it feels like 80 to 90% of wealth is money. And then everything else is afforded after you've ticked that box, whatever's left of your 10% of your, I call it token. I talk with like mental health as well as like, each day we have a certain number of tokens. You've got 100 tokens and you're spending 80 tokens on, yeah, something that's like negative to you or 80 tokens on the wrong place. That's only leaving 20 tokens of energy for everything else in your life.
which is the imbalance that is out of place. Yeah, I love that. The way I articulate it is that money is a tool, not the goal.
Using money as a tool to build these other things is incredible. It's a great use of money to think about how you can use money to create meaningful experiences with people you love, how you can use money to improve your health, to improve your mental health. That is an incredible thing to buy you freedom so that you can actually spend time on the things that matter. But the problem is, because money is the most measurable thing, because it's the thing that you are told matters that's going to confer upon you the status, the prestige, the achievement that you've been told matters in life,
It becomes the narrow myopic focus that is the treadmill that everyone gets on. And you lose sight of the fact that it's a tool, not the goal. Because as Peter Drucker said, what gets measured gets managed. It's the thing that we can measure becomes the thing that we focus on, the thing that we optimize everything around.
And it's because money's measurability is a feature, right? It makes it so easy for us to measure ourselves, to compare ourselves to each other. We don't have a way historically to measure these other things, to measure these other areas of life. And as a result, we don't think about them. We don't try to build them. We don't invest in them in the same way that we invest in money. And we can change that.
we can start to redefine in our own minds what does a wealthy life look like to me? And for me, it might be different than it looks for you. But the point is that you get to craft your own definition, and then you get to design and build your life around the definition that matters to you. You spent literally years researching whatever word you wanted to use, like investigating, looking into learning. When you were speaking to people for different walks of life, so from the CEOs and these wealthy companies all the way down to people that have economically, perhaps a lot less,
What were the kind of patterns? I often people ask the question like, does money buy you happiness? Are the super rich really happy? If you don't have any money, does that mean you're not going to be happy? What did you discover in that? There's a few things. One, a very important discovery is that money does buy happiness, but only up to a point.
And the research on this is actually rather clear now, which is up to a certain baseline. Money has a direct impact on happiness. It reduces the fundamental stresses and burdens of life. The things that you stress about when you have no money start to go away as you make more. The problem happens once you've reached that sort of point of diminishing returns.
where no longer do you have those fundamental stresses and burdens, but you assume that the curve that you had in those early days is going to continue in perpetuity. So that same way that money was buying you happiness, your mind is now patterned. Arthur Brooks talks about this as like, you have been conditioned to believe it's like a mouse with cheese and a bell, right? You think that the bell is going to ring and you're going to keep having that same happiness gain from making more and more money.
And that's not the case. And so what happens to a lot of people is they continue to act in the same way that they did in those early years. When you are young, when you are in your 20s, building a financial foundation, focusing on your career, building that base, is a great use of your time. Because that base is something that you can live off of. It creates security. It creates that early happiness.
But the biggest regret that people have that are unhappy in life is that they focus too much on it at the detriment of everything else. And that's where that diminishing return or perhaps even negative return. I was like, you're spending more on, therefore, you're not even just not getting more happiness. You're actually decreasing your habits. You can actually impact it negatively. I mean, what the science says is that at that level, so
That level gets quoted at different numbers all the time. The original most formative study on this was Daniel Kahneman, and the big published figure was that a $70,000 a year income level was that level. I find it very difficult to place a single number to it because it is very different based on where you live and your situation. If I have two children living in London, it is not 70,000 pounds a year. It's probably doubled us. Yeah, and if I live in New York City, same thing.
If I'm single living in rural Mississippi, it might be. And so I find it very challenging to apply a blanket average. But the point is that up to a level it does. And what the science shows is that
If you reach that level and you are unhappy, more money is not going to change that. And if you reach that level and you're already happy, more money is not going to make you incrementally happier. So for both of those situations, it's the other things in life. It's time, people, purpose, and health.
And the way that I uncovered those four was by asking people one simple question. Every single person across these thousands that I talked to, I asked them to vividly imagine their ideal day at age 80. In some cases, the person was already 90, and so I asked them at 100. And every single one of them shares a fairly similar image, which is
with people they love, with the freedom to spend time on things they care about, feeling healthy of body and mind. That is what people want. And that was replicated across lots of different backgrounds. Cross everyone in slightly different forms and functions, but no one says, I want to be flying around on a private jet alone, right? No one wants that. Everyone wants to be surrounded by people they care about.
which is really interesting reflects the conversation. We had a palliative care consultant, an amazing lady called Dr. Catherine Mannix on the stomp cast. We recorded just a few weeks ago, the episode actually went out this week and what she was saying, as a palliative care consultant who's looked after over 30 years, been looking after people in the end of their lives, that actually replicates what she was saying, is that actually
People were saying, broadly, they want to spend time with their family, that their health was very important, and that feeling that they lived a purposeful life, whatever that meant to them was really important. But it wasn't about how much money had, or whether they had really fancy holidays. The holidays were about the people.
And that experience, not about, yeah, I've got X number of cars or whatever, which it really does actually replicate what you're saying. And that's the people, right? That's the people actively at the end of their life. Yeah. Yeah, and I think the important thing there again is that money was an enabler of those things, but not an end in and of itself.
And it's why I say that at the outset of the book. I'm not saying that money is nothing. I'm just simply saying it can't be the only thing. There are a lot of people that I talk to who respond to this and they say, well, but should I just give up my professional ambitions to focus on these other things? Absolutely not.
But you need it to be grounded in your purpose. If you are driving towards building something incredible that you want to change the world with, a company or a nonprofit or whatever that might be, that needs to be centered in your purpose, not in the pursuit of money.
If it's focused on you just making money, you're going to end up miserable. I can guarantee you. Time and time again, you see this. Anyone that is just chasing a financial end game ends up miserable in some way. The Forbes top 10 richest people in the world have 13 divorces among the 10. Wow.
How many really rich people do you know that have challenged relationships with their children? You see it in the news every single day, like Rupert Murdoch right now having this big battle with his kids over who's getting the inheritance because he's trying to shift it to different people. I mean, succession, that famous TV show was entirely made around this idea that
Money is not buying you these high quality, deep, meaningful relationships with the people you care about. It actually is an impediment in many ways. And so that was really what I started to center around. I started to realize that the scoreboard is the problem. The way that we are measuring our life's worth, the way that we are stacking ourselves up against others is just off, or it's at least incomplete. Money is a piece of it, but it's not the only thing.
And so we need a way to think about as we make decisions about our lives, as we measure our lives, as we design our lives, we need to think about the full picture. The full picture of the things that contribute to a life well lived. And what I kept centering on as I went through this journey was that these are things that we know. When you ask all these people for their ideal future,
They say these things. They say time people purpose health. They say these things matter to them. But then you ask them about their actions in the present, and they're completely dislocated, completely disjointed from the actions that would create that end. They're just chasing money. And so we know the answers, but we simply haven't asked the questions to reveal them in ourselves yet.
That is what the book is all about. It's helping you ask the right questions so that you can reveal these answers, so that you can act on these answers and bear them out in your daily life. I hear this thing that I thought kind of perfectly brings that example to life, which is basically like, what do you care about? And the person says, well, I care about my family and my friends, and I love exercise. And you go, OK, show me your diary.
and I'll show you your priorities and you go through the diary and you're like, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work,
disconnect. So I thought as we come down to part one, we're going to kind of dialing into these kind of five through part two and part three, so stick around guys. I just wanted to ask a big question really, but in simple terms, you know, you've had this huge change from what you've done, you've left the job, you've moved, you've spent all this time learning about this, obviously you've written the book and stuff, you know, you're a father, are you happy?
Has it worked? I'm not saying you're entirely happy all the time. That's impossible. Have you tangibly seen a difference in your life? Yes, dramatically. And everyone around me, and I would say in particular, my wife, has seen and felt the impact of that. I mean, you can see it on my face. If you look at a picture of me from before and a picture of me now, I look like a different person. My skin was bad.
heavier, I was just stressed drinking, you could see it in my face. And literally all of these things, when you start changing your life and when your energy shifts, your body, I mean, physically your entire world can change. And I have just, I've been over the last really two years of it. I have felt an incredible shift in my daily enjoyment, daily appreciation, daily gratitude.
And I said this, but the arrival of our son was in many ways the exact manifestation of all of these ideas. The fact that we were able to conceive after making this change was that wink from God that we were on the right path. And I had this moment shortly after he was born, I was walking him out on the sidewalk early one morning and this old man walked up to me and came up and said,
I remember walking my newborn daughter out on this same sidewalk. She's 45 years old now. It goes by fast. Cherish it. And I had this profound feeling. I took him back.
to our house and I brought him into bed with my wife and I and my wife was still asleep and the sun was coming in through the windows. And he had this perfectly content smile on his face. And I just had this feeling that for the first time in my life, I had truly arrived, but there was nothing more that I wanted. This moment was enough. And what I say in the book and what I'll say now is the heart of all of this, which is never let the quest for more distract you from the beauty of enough.
That's so powerful. It's such a simple thing. Here's going. It's such a simple thought, but let's be honest, most of us miss. We're always like, you arrive and you look at what next. You get over a challenge and you start looking at the next challenge rather than going, I'm here.
This is now, everything I have is in the now and enjoying it. Unbelievably powerful. We'll come to the end of part one there. Guys, we'll see you in part two very soon. We're gonna start talking about two or three of those five parts, which will then complete and talk through in part three. See you all very soon. Goodbye.
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