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033 | 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