Make Your Dreams Come True!

Good morning. Happy Friday. Let's see if anybody jumps into this. Gosh, I look a little tired today. Maybe I haven't had enough coffee. Let's see if anybody jumps in. I'll give you a minute to join me in making our dreams come true. Because it's Friday. Who doesn't want to go into the weekend thinking about big dreams? I know I do, I know I do. One more sip of coffee before I get to chatting. Alright. Everybody's working. Which is usually the case Friday at 09:00. Or for some of you it's a little bit later, maybe earlier, but I think we're on the same time zone now in Arizona as California, which is really nice.

But then we swap and we are now an hour different from Colorado, which is where a lot of my family is. So it always just throws me off. Oh, girls from golden heart. Good morning. Oh, I'm so glad you're here. Okay. This is gonna be a banger today, I hope. Okay. So as you know, I like to tell little stories and anecdotes, excuse me. About making your big dreams come true. And for me, the subject recently that's come up is real estate. Okay, real estate. All I hear right now is about real estate. Got grant cardone over talking about how pull all your money out, put it in real estate, buy a house, invest, invest.

And I've been wanting to buy a house for a really long time. Chris, welcome to the live. I'm so glad to see your face. I personally have been wanting to buy a house for a really long time. I am not a homeowner. I have been an urban gypsy for most of my life. I have moved all around the country. I've lived in Boston, I've lived in San Francisco, I've lived in New York City and now Phoenix. I mean, I've lived all over the place, so there never really felt like a great city for me to buy in or that I could afford, let's just be honest.

And now I've been in Phoenix for the better part of, I guess 13 years now, which is so wild. And you know, of course I want to buy a house. Of course I would love to buy a house. I'll be 42 this year. That is on my big list. That's on my big goal list. Okay. You know, my dad worked in real estate, my brother, both my brothers in law flip homes. One of them is a full time broker. And my sister and brother in law flip homes. They moved out of the state to go be able to do that. And real estate has been all around me my whole life.

Most people my age own. Okay. You know, I know it's a good investment. Right. I would love for my dog to have a huge backyard with grass and not gravel to run around in or a pool to go swimming in, because he loves to swim. Of course, this is on my big dream list. And when people, you know, when I talk about paying rent and how expensive it is or whatever, the statement that I get from people, like, don't you think that you'd be better served buying a house and having that go into a mortgage? Yeah, I would be really well served to do that.

Right. But if I could do it, don't you think I would be doing it? Right? There are other factors that come into play. Of course. I would love to check that off my list, but that big dream is on my long term goal list. Okay. That is something that is taking me time. It's on my. I will get to that, right. And we'll get to that in a second. But it is one of my biggest dreams. And it's like saying to somebody who, you know, wants to launch a business, well, why don't you just go do that? Or somebody who, you know, you think should get sober.

Oh, why don't you just stop drinking? I mean, yeah, guys, I'll just get right on that. Like, things don't just happen overnight. Okay. But. And, you know, as hard as being a homeowner is, there are some positives to being a renter. And I think about, you know, when my air conditioning goes out, somebody's over to fix it almost immediately, and it doesn't come out of my pocket. If I want to move, I don't feel stuck. Right? If I want to just, like, take a vacation or, you know, my life changes, I have options.

I could move to another state. Things are. If they, you know, I don't have to have, like, a money pit savings off to the side, necessarily, for things that break. So there are definitely some perks to it. But being a homeowner is. Is. It's hard, and it's not for everybody. Right. So I was thinking about this, and I was just thinking, like, what are some of my takeaways for having a long term goal and having something that I know is going to take me well, like, almost my whole life to probably have.

I'm going to be 42 this year, and I still don't own a home. And most people are probably buying their first home. My guess is between the ages of, like, 25 and 40 is my guess. Now I'm already like, like they would call that a geriatric pregnancy. I'm already like a geriatric first time, maybe homeowner. I don't know if I can say that, but I just did. But here are some of my takeaways for some of these long, long term goals that you maybe, maybe can't get to right away. Sometimes the longer the weight, the sweeter it tastes.

And that's with building a business, that's with buying a home. That's what sometimes even people saving up to buy a ring, to propose to somebody. Some of these goals, some long term goals are worth the wait. And they taste oh so good when you can do it completely on your own and you've earned it and it came from you and it's exactly what you saw for yourself, maybe on your vision board or in your dreams, in your visions, in your head. It's what you saw at the end of the road. Another thing is, if it were easy, everyone would do it.

Everyone would be homeowners, everyone would be business owners, everyone would be flying private. Whatever it is that your big dreams are, everyone would be speaking on the best stages in the world. Everyone would be billionaires. It's not for everyone to achieve certain goals. And I'm saying that if it were easy, people get bored by that, right? Like, I love a good struggle, I love a good challenge, I love that I haven't been able to do this yet because it just means that it's going to be so sweet at the end of the road.

Some dreams are just on pre order, right? Like you, you've. You've paid for them, maybe you've put in the work and you know it's going to come into stock for you soon. The expected date is to be determined right on your pre order, but you've done the hard work, you've paid for it, air quotes and it's coming for you. Patience is a virtue and it's worth waiting for. The other takeaway that I have is that I don't necessarily want all of my big dreams to happen at once. I don't mind if my dreams are sprinkled and I have staggered satisfaction of these big dreams because that means that my whole life is going to be sprinkled with amazingness.

My whole life is going to be a series of dreams being realized at different times. People who want immediacy and who expect immediacy and some of these big satisfactions, they get bored so easily and they're on to the next and then do they even truly enjoy it. I can't imagine having, snapping my fingers and having all of my big dreams come true at the same time. Not only would I feel completely overwhelmed, it's like somebody winning the lottery. There are stories of people who come into millions and millions of dollars.

And then there's just sometimes this like adverse effect of hitting this lottery and coming into all this money and everybody wanting something from them or spending it all in one place or not great things happening. You've heard these stories before. I feel like it's kind of the same thing with big dreams throughout your life. Like who doesn't want sporadic wins throughout their life? Who doesn't want to experience the ups and downs? I know that I don't want it all at once. I love working towards something and I love the journey and then seeing the reward, and then I love getting back into the journey and seeing that reward and this cycle of work, reward, work, reward.

That is what I consider a dream life. So think about that when you are setting yourself a big, distant, maybe long term goal that might happen over time. Think about the fact that you get to experience the journey, you get to experience the ups and downs, and you get this amazing gift of sprinkled happiness and sprinkled dreams being realized throughout your entire life. And there's something really sweet. I think about that. So that is my message for you today. And I hope that it resonates and I hope that it makes you think just about the fact that some dreams are going to be a little bit longer of a wait and they're on pre order, right?

And you're just waiting for that season to drop. I think I always equate everything back to shopping and clothes. Cause that's the world I'm in. But I am so okay with knowing that I've already reserved that dream. God and the universe had that dream reserved for me. Whatever you believe in, it's waiting for you. You've already put in the work or you're continuing to put in the work. You've made your down payments, you're paying it off. There's that. You've got an affirm account going with your dreams and then one day it's gonna hit and it's gonna feel so good.

So I love you guys. Thank you for commenting. And Chris said, yeah, sure thing, man. I'll just quit tomorrow. Exactly. Exactly. Now, do I wish for somebody in that space to have to wait long term for it to be their dream of quitting to be realized? No, of course not. Like we would love for that to happen faster. Right. But it is what the message here is, is letting yourself realize and understand that things just don't happen overnight. Right. And that's always my underlying message with these big dreams is it doesn't happen overnight.

And knowing that it's a journey and knowing that you're going to need support along the way, knowing that it's going to take a lot of work, and that chipping away towards something every single day is so incredibly important for that long term lasting result. Golden heart. Love what you bring into the world. Thank you. I love what you two bring into the world. This is what this community is all about, is us being there for each other and lifting each other and sharing our stories so it can hopefully impact you, all of the users on Cadre in a powerful way.

So I hope you guys have an awesome Friday. Go out and keep chipping away at your big dreams. I'm going to be doing that today. I am chipping away super hard at some big stuff we are chipping away super hard at some big stuff here at Cadre. And as always, thanks for tuning in. So have a great week end, everybody.