Dave Evans
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Podcast Appearances
And by the way, I don't think anybody writing their eulogy or those questions says, I wish I had more, I think I want to have more money by the time I'm X. Because you get to the second half of life, assuming that money is enough and energy is not, or whatever, but it's hard.
You start to realize that those kinds of transactional accomplishments, while important and interesting ways of keeping score,
aren't the things that are going to make you happy when you get to that point?
So I think, you know, I really encourage the folks who are thinking about this stuff, think a little, you know, give yourself a little bit of time, turn off the phone and give yourself a little bit of time to think about, you know, what would I hope people say about me?
And how do I become the person
that deserves them to say that.
And if that stuff comes up, and this could be connected to your wild card, it could be just connected to where you are in your journey.
If that stuff comes up,
Where you, you know, a lot of times when I do these, because, you know, one of the first things I said to Dave when we set this up is, you know, we got to do everything we put in the books.
Otherwise, they're the biggest hypocrites on the planet.
So we do all this stuff.
And every once in a while when I do this stuff, I lean back and I go, oh, wow, where did that come from?
You know, that's a good, like, that's an idea.
Where did that come from?
You know, it came from some part of me, you know, just needed a little bit of quiet.
to find its voice.
I'll bet if I looked at your phone and tell me how much time you spend on Instagram, how much time you spend on TikTok, how much time you spend scrolling mindlessly, you know, through reels or short videos on YouTube.
I do it too.
And every once in a while I look at that and go, I can't believe I spent an hour on this crap.
So give yourself a pause and think,