A unique thing about my job is that I get to…

…interview hundreds of ambitious people, and they all share the same problem. They’re in the wrong jobs. People who claim to have great personal lives are never making enough money to sustain the life they’re so proud of.

And those who are making enough money do so at the expense of their relationships with their bodies, friends, family, fun, and sense of adventure.

Either situation is obviously unacceptable to these ambitious types, begging the question “Why haven’t they done anything about it?”

 

I’ve found that what has them stopped is…

…never a lack of intelligence or effort but a lack of a particular type of knowledge and skill. Living a good life, being able to use your passion to harmoniously fulfill all of your financial, professional, and personal objectives, is a matter of strategy, not effort.

Inside of our Strategic Training Group we train with a 12 part strategy that when fulfilled results in a person being able to live what they design as a good life now and during the 30+ years of old age when they can no longer work.

Below are the FOUR foundational parts of that very strategy that you can adopt today to get you started.

 

1: HUMAN MASTERY

What is counterintuitive to most people when they think about making a life pivot such as moving away from working in the wrong job is that it starts with living a good life rather than ends with it.

When most people consider a career redesign or replacement, they think ‘Hustle & Grind.’ But in reality, the first step is to actually start living what you say is a good life. This is how you ensure that this time, when you redesign, reconstruct, or replace your career, it will be done in support of the real properties and commitments that your good life requires. But the benefits don’t stop there.

In today’s environment, the ability to live good and harmonized lives has become incredibly scarce, which makes any product or service that can support that kind of living incredibly valuable.

It is only when we ourselves have mastery in regards to what living a good life actually takes, that we can create the kind of offers that will increase our incomes while dividing our efforts by way of being better help to others.

This hold true in both our personal lives as well as in our professional lives.  

 

2: POWER

Culturally, we’ve been conditioned to sacrifice our time, energy, creativity, and currency to get things done. We spend time buying groceries, sorting receipts for taxes, or fixing a clogged sink – often without considering the return on our efforts.

When pivoting your career to one that lets you live on your terms, you’ll find that creating such a career requires you to become a connoisseur of power.

This means you need to stop executing tasks in ways that deplete your deployable levels of time, energy, creativity, and currency, and start doing them in ways that build it.

Power is required for any pivot because pivots require change.

If you’re not living the life you desire, it’s due to a lack of power.

To initiate this shift, stop hyper focusing on what seems most important, like family, fitness, work, etc. Instead, start prioritizing strategies and tactics that yield meaningful returns on your invested time, energy, creativity, and currency.

Then, reinvest that regained power into your next set of strategies and tactics. I know it sounds backwards, but this is how you generate a sustainable source of power for things like family, fitness and work.

 

3: TRAIN FOR IT

The ‘High Performers’ I interview often let pride and arrogance keep them trapped. Their high incomes and status blinds them from true success.

Think about how rare it is to find someone who can use their passion to harmoniously reach all of their financial, professional, and personal objectives.

Yes…I mean money and friends, fitness, family and dare I say adventure? 

Living this kind of life requires particular skills to execute a specific strategy. This isn’t quickly learned without strategic training. As we say in the SEAL Teams, ‘All skill. No luck.’

 

4: TRIBE

No I’m about to mention accountability, but that’s become such a common cliche that I need to first explain.

Living in a way where you are actually harmoniously caring for all of your professional, financial and personal purposes is too counter-cultural to do alone.

So yes…you need a tribe of others who are after the same thing. You need these types of people around you not only to learn from but also to keep you accountable and on track.

And I don’t mean just accountable to do what you said you were going to do. That’s common accountability. I’m really trying to emphasize the contrarian nature of this kind of life.

So I’m saying you need people around you to remind you that it’s not okay to enter a personal or professional strategy that will require the sacrifice of any other part of your life.

There are simply too many outside forces working against your ability to live a life such as this to go it alone. By yourself you’ll return to common cultural lifestyles and lives.

 

The Journey

Pivoting to a life where personal, professional, and financial purposes are harmoniously cared for is an unconventional way of living that requires unconventional philosophies, strategies, tools, training and tactics,

and I would be remiss if I didn’t tell you that this is one of the few journey’s that are as enjoyable as the destintion because the moment you’ve committeed to living that way you stary to live that way, which in a way, is a destination itself. 

 

If you’re thinking that it’s time you…

…embrace a life where financial success is no longer at odds with personal fulfillment, then our Strategic Training Group is likely your next step.

Apply now to join a community of like-minded individuals, committed to redefining success on their terms. This isn’t just about changing careers; it’s about transforming lives.

Eric