Today is June 2nd, 2018, which marks two years since Gattie and I left Chile on this very same day, 2016. We left the country of Chile and moved to Canada to start a new chapter here and essentially a new life here. So that's pretty heavy for me because I had a plan when we left Chile, and I was putting a lot of energy into it and focus on it and Dene exactly go the way that I wanted it to. I mean most plans don't, right?
But this kind of got totally derailed. It was a bit grandiose. Yeah, I was pretty dreamy. I guess you could call it.
I had visions of basically just traveling around Canada in our converted van that I'd made with my dad and we were going to sell her artwork and coconut oil and books and Man just talking about it right now. It feels really good. It still sounds like a great idea But you know and we put it into effect. I had the van.
I had the books. I had the art. I didn't have I didn't have coconut oil Oh, and we were gonna sell Dr. Bronner's too and But anyways, we traveled and we moved around and we had a great time, but we just didn't sell and You know, there's a lot of reasons for that But we ended up we came out to Vancouver Island and I got right to work I had a job already set in place and we got right to work on that.
Here's Jesse I got a pickle month. I got a stop recording. Okay I was rambling a little bit there before I picked up Jesse But where I'm going with this is that here we are two years later to the day and and I've realized something just in the past month That when when we left chili I had stopped documenting I had stopped documenting my life the way that I that I always have since I was like 15 years old and Yeah, I was just like in this mindset of okay. We're coming back to Canada I'm gonna sponsor my way for for residency.
It's time to grow up time to get real and I'm gonna just put my nose with grinds don't get into the working world and we're gonna do this and You know, we've done it but I looking back now I completely walked away from the one thing that was really My my sort of driving force the one thing that was a constant in my life was was just always having a camera with me and Documenting things and you know, I didn't make a lot of videos From all the footage that I'm sitting on from all the things that I recorded. I really didn't make a lot of videos So I was already kind of fading out there something happened when I met Kathy and I've heard this happen before, you know I just I fell completely head over he wasn't in love with her and I couldn't see anything else but her and I'm not saying that's a bad thing at all because it was it was an incredible incredible feeling and I was unstoppable in Just getting her basically. I was in terms of courting her and Just getting to her, you know, no matter where she was in the world or what was going on I was just bound and determined that I was going to be with her and And that's what happened, right? So I feel great about that, but I put everything else aside and now it's it's I've realized that okay I'd time to come back to that and so this Sleeping dragon has been reawakened and that is my passion for Making videos for documenting my life and now here I am You know just waking up on this island that I dreamed of living on when I was younger when I was living back in Ontario I used to look at these skateboarding and snowboarding magazines and well not snowboarding, but yeah snowboarding to get out West basically anyways, the whole West Coast dream was introduced to me when I when I started watching the whiskey videos and Looking at skateboarding snowboarding magazines and and first it was Vancouver and then once I once I discovered Victoria It was like I got to live here and now here I am and I've been here for two while not two years yet But I've been out here for long enough now to be like what the hell am I doing out here?
I'm in my I'm in my my Graceland and I'm not even embracing it, you know And so it is time for a brand new chapter in my life and before that chapter begins I need to formulate a plant and I've done this with pretty much every chapter of my life when I started doing that when I started putting my life into chapters and so I would formulate a plan and I would just get really stoked on that plan and sort of Dream build towards it and it would it would begin to consume my waking thoughts and that's what it takes to really make things happen for you. That's that's for a lot of people that just Happens naturally that comes naturally the people that really succeed and sort of get and achieve the things that they want in life That's just a natural thing, but that's not a natural thing for all of us when I was When I was younger it did seem to be a natural thing and I was I was unaware of it And so I realized that I've kind of got derailed in Settling down I was always so scared of settling down with a partner because of this right and maybe I asked for it But you know I was scared of settling down because I felt like it was gonna derail me from all my dreams and aspirations And I'm not saying that Settling down with Kathy and getting married is the problem because it's not As soon as you start pointing fingers outwards you lose the problem is always Yourself and let's hold right there and not call it a problem. It's a challenge right? Everybody's got challenges in life if you let it overtake you if you let it be bigger than you then it's a problem But the whole the whole thing is a challenge comes along and you find a way to get bigger than that challenge and to squash that challenge and then you keep moving on and then another challenge comes along and so you're continually growing and That's why you know you're running the people in life that they have these challenges and you don't even see the challenge because you've already stepped over it You've already taken on that challenge and completely squashed it and you've stepped over it And so now you don't even see it as a challenge man.
I am rambling again here I would say my challenge of podcasting is to just have my main topic written down right in front of me So that I can see it as I'm talking and just let the main thing be the main thing So let's get back to that all of my life I have been either a creator a traveler or both. That's who I am. That's what I do That's when and how and why I feel the most alive and so why am I not doing that and if you're in a similar situation Ask yourself the same question Why are you not doing the things that make your heart go pitter patter that just like make you feel more alive than anything else in your life? And I can answer that question I'm not doing those things and I stopped doing those things because I couldn't make money off of it And why couldn't I make money off it because I didn't even try to monetize it I didn't even I didn't even think about it because I was that innocent and that naive that it was just like I love this and Blah blah blah and I'm gonna make money other ways and just do this just like it's eating You know, that's that's literally what I was doing I was just like I eat I capture moments with my camera and I write and that's just like a part of my life It's like living it's like breathing and eating and pissing and I don't get paid for those things Yeah, I'm not intelligent in that in that field, you know, I am not an entrepreneur while I wasn't I'm learning how to be I'm learning to monetize and turn my passions into something that is going to you know put food on the table and allow me to Grow allow me to buy better equipment and travel at somebody else's expense and Things like that and now that's possible and I know that was possible before but I didn't see it and so just like me Again, if you're in a similar situation, I totally encourage you to Really take the time to look at whatever it is You're passionate about and figure out how you can monetize it because there is a way You just need to set up a plan to figure that out and I feel like it's been I've made it way too convoluted way too convoluted For my own good.
I suffer from what a lot of people call analysis paralysis I think way too much about shit and I talk about it and I listen to it and I read about it and I talk about it some more But I don't do it so this next chapter that is upon me is About doing it the plan is this on September 21st of this year I'm going to walk away from my safe secure painting job Take on a part-time position what I want to do is cut back my hours cut back my income and focus on living my life the way I want to live it and documenting it and Exploring this amazing place that I dreamed of for years to live in and I'm not even I'm not even experiencing Like an eighth of it because I'm working all day and I'm too tired every day and you know Just life and busyness gets in the way I want to make my life my job not my job my life and that's possible It's so possible and that's what I'm gonna do because I'm gonna document it and I'm gonna share it I'm gonna provide value to everybody and I'm just gonna be me and That's it and if nobody if nobody watches it I don't care because I'll be happy and I'll be fulfilling my passion and I'll be doing what I used to do before YouTube and social media and all that stuff I was always documenting and that's what I'm gonna do again I'm gonna come back to that and I'm gonna be consistent and I'm gonna share it with the world and I hope you enjoy it And I hope the world enjoys it and that's the next chapter And so the next step now is to formulate the plan So while I do that, I'm gonna utilize anchor and get back on here as much as I can and share my progress in Formulating my plan with anybody who cares to listen so in a sense This is just like me dictating to myself what I'm gonna do and you know essentially I'm just talking into a quarter and this is what I normally do the only difference is that I'm publishing it on a podcast Because it might have value to somebody you know what even if it has value to just but one person that would make my day But really it's just me getting on my dreams planning looking ahead and Rather than put it down on paper it is on paper as well But I'm just scouting here in audio form like an audio blog And I know there's others out there like me that are feeling the same thing that want to do something similar and this is for you This is only for you So stay tuned as I develop more of my plan and figure things out more and the countdown continues 109 days left I will continually share my thoughts and my progress and the forward direction towards my daily vlog that will launch Sometime the end of this year. I don't even have a date yet But the seed has been planted and there's conviction and every single podcast that you hear from now on you will hear more conviction and more belief And more progress. I promise you this I promise myself this because I've reached a point where I realize what else am I gonna do? If I continue to work a normal job that doesn't feed my fire that doesn't fulfill my dreams and aspirations Then what am I doing it for a fucking paycheck every two weeks?
That's an instant regret for sure. You don't have to wait till the end of your life to realize that you traded it You traded your hours for dollars Realize it right now and do something about it. I've heard it over and over and over and over and over again That you got to find what fires you up what you're passionate about and find a way to monetize it Some people just do it naturally others you got to find a way But it's not until you realize it and you say those words yourself to yourself that you've got to find a way to Monetize your passion to to earn money from whatever it is That really turns you on when you decide that that's what you're gonna do and you formulate a plan on how you're gonna do it And you begin and when you do that That's when the ride starts and that's when it gets really really really good. So let's begin