In today's podcast we speak with Dominick Quartuccio from DominickQ.com and the author of the book Design Your Life about disrupting your behaviors and 'creating a future you can't wait to live into.'
In Today’s Podcast we cover:
Our guest is Dominick Quartuccio the author of Design Your Future who is here to talk about ‘designing a future you can’t wait to live into’
This is a very personal episode for Brad, as Dom is a close friend and the person Brad goes to for advice and motivation
FI is focused on freedom and that is what Dominick focuses on, but with an emphasis on energy
People in Dominick’s world were asking questions about ‘where to go from here’, even though they seemingly have everything
Community is such an essential aspect of life
We all need to be intentional and not drift through life
Dominick’s explanation of the term ‘drift’ as defined by Napoleon Hill and what happens if you live an unintentional life
How to know if you’re drifting in life? Are you reacting based on fear?
Progress is an essential aspect of being a human
What is on your life horizon that gets you ‘excited like a kid on Christmas morning’?
How beliefs impact how you live your life and how Dom’s belief held him back from leaving his corporate job
Systemic spending. How Dom’s gym impacts his entire system
An awakening: Most are unintentional, but Dominick advises looking for intentional awakenings
Disrupting: How to disrupt your behaviors, stories, etc.
Possible disruptions would be to abstain from a behavior for a period of time (“no Netflix for 60 days”, etc.)
‘The space between a stimulus and the response’
How to interrupt your normal response after a standard stimulus
How 95% of your thoughts, feelings, behaviors, etc. fall below your conscious thinking
How the 5% of conscious thought can impact and change the 95% of habits, behaviors and become habitual
How to design the future you can’t wait to live into
Writing your own eulogy to focus on the ‘celebration of life’
How long do you want to live? What do you want to experience in life? What did you leave behind – what lives on beyond you?
Shifting your focus to realize you have ‘ultimate authority’ over your life
Dominick’s Eulogy
A 90 day action plan to set a defined goal to help design your future
The value of small changes and process improvements over time
What happens to your energy when working through a 90 day plan and tips to sustain the plan
How to curate an internal state that makes you stronger
Hot Seat Questions
Meditation is Dom’s favorite life hack
Dom’s biggest financial mistake: spending too much money launching his business
Links from the show:
Dominick Quartuccio’s website
Dom on LinkedIn
Dom’s book: Design Your Future (special access to ChooseFI listeners)
Jocko Willink podcast
Tim Ferriss podcast
Michael Hyatt
Impact Theory website and podcast
The Busy Trap by Tim Kreider in the NY Times
App: Moment for Apple or Quality Time for Android
Headspace
Cory Muscara meditation
Books Mentioned in the Show:
Design Your Future
Think and Grow Rich
Outwitting the Devil
The Last Safe Investment
Man’s Search for Meaning
The War of Art
From the Other Side of the World
Stealing Fire
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