Latest / The Checkpoint Podcast: Questions / Episode 7 | What Do You Want the Next 20 Years of Your Life to Look Like?
Transcript
- The DECAF Network: Hey, it's Dex from the Checkpoint. And the Checkpoint is basically a whole bunch of questions that in my age, in my time, as I get close to my fifties, we all seem to ask ourselves. And it's not something that we really tend to ask as a group. And so that's what I'm trying to do. Trying to ask these sorts of questions. Trying to get a collective together where we can share stories and share experiences. So the question that I'm going to answer. Myself is what do I want the next 20 years to look like? What do I want the next 20 years to look like? That's a that's a bit of a tough question, actually. Now I am very close to 50. You can just call me 50 just to make things a bit easier. And so 20 years would be 70. Now, how would I want that to look like? Well, I want to do this. I still want to do this. The checkpoint is something that is going to be my Last job. I'm gonna build a checkpoint. I want to have a lot of people in it. I want to have a lot of people sharing experiences and sharing ideas. I want to have people go through the reboot play at one course because I love it. I think it's fun and I think it would really help people. And I just want to have fun by helping people and getting paid for it. That's pretty much it in a nutshell. ⁓ twenty years is going to mean my kids will grow up. And they might have families, might have a partner, they might be around, they might be overseas. ⁓ my parents, with any luck, with absolutely any luck, with all of the luck in the world, they'll still be here. That would be nice. And ⁓ it would be an honour to look after them ⁓ in those in those years. You know, twenty years plus their age. Whew. They're not gonna be the oldest people, but ⁓ it's gonna be close. So twenty years for me represents a a gradual change in what it is that I've always done. I actually no. And listening to myself say that now it's it's it's changed. This is why I like to do this. This is why I I said myself voice memos and SMS myself because I I get to hear these thoughts and the hearing of them actually sometimes can change the meaning. So ⁓ I was saying it was a it's gonna be a gradual change of helping people. And ⁓ that's actually not the case. I I've been helping people for wow. ⁓ if you were to take it all the way back, my first job. In fact, most people's first jobs are helping people, either directly or indirectly. It could be people that are customers or it could be fellow ⁓ fellow employees. And since I started my own business, which I think this year now will be like eighteenth year. I've pretty much been doing that, helping people. Mainly from an IT perspective. ⁓ but it definitely in the past five or so years, especially once COVID came and went, it's been helping them in this capacity as well. ⁓ and just talking through problems and lending an ear and, you know, suggesting things if they need if they needed suggestion. and and just being there for people. So for the next twenty years I hope to just keep doing this. I hope to keep showing up. I hope to meet as many people as I can and and bring together a really big group of people to to discuss these sorts of problems. These sorts of issues and just things that ⁓ no one really teaches us as we grow up. And I don't think you really can be taught this sort of stuff because everyone's different, everyone has different circumstances. But I think it helps to bring people together. Because there will be times when certain issues will arise that someone has dealt with in a particular way that might help somebody else. There might be something coming up that the person has just gone through that other people can go, ⁓ that reminds me I should prepare for that, just so it doesn't happen to me. And because it's life, I I I don't think that it gets as much attention as it deserves. Because we live it, right? It's not something that we have to sit down and go, I have to do work. I have to go for a run. I have to pick up the kids. No one says I have to do life. And so a lot of these thoughts happen in between these events. You know, it could be in the car, it could be with your kids screaming in the background and you're totally shut off. it could be having a coffee with no one else around. It could be going for a walk and you're not listening to anything. If th these are the thoughts that kind of come up and ⁓ they they don't really have enough time to breathe. They're a a fleeting thought. They come in and and you go, Wow, what's gonna happen if one of my parents go? Like how like who are they where are they gonna live? You know, it's a lot of the stuff that you ⁓ you you should think about, you don't want to think about, and it's not and it's really something that you can only do something about it when it happens. And so putting together a community like this, it could be something for everyone where An event happens, and I'm gonna I'm not gonna bring up, you know, the loss of a parent anymore, I don't want talk about that. But an event happens and that can be brought up in the group. And hopefully with mass, with people with participation, ⁓ there'll be people that might just say, ⁓ that happened to me, or that happened to me a while back, that happened to my friend, and this is what they did, and this is who they called, and this is what they thought helped. That's kind of like what I'd like to put together or something like that. So to answer my question in a very very long way, it's almost twenty minutes now, that's far too long to speak. ⁓ where would I like my life to be in twenty years? Doing exactly this. Just helping people, bringing people together, sharing experiences, asking questions, discussing them. Not so much answering them, because these questions don't have a single answer, they have infinite answers. But the discussion of these questions might bring up the right answer for you. That's it. Thanks. Bye.