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Episode 31 - Moving to the Beach! · RealTalkwithMikeD

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Real Talk with Mike D. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the intro. Welcome back to Real Talk
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  Speaker 1: with Mike D. I am Mike D. Okay, alright, alright.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to do it. Sit down, sit down. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back to Real Talk with Mike D. I am
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  Speaker 1: Mike D. And today I want to talk about why
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  Speaker 1: someday I will be moving to the beach. Everybody knows
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  Speaker 1: how much I love the beach. I've talked about the
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  Speaker 1: beach before. You know, I've talked about the sunsets. I've
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  Speaker 1: talked about the sounds of the waves. I've talked about
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  Speaker 1: wanting to move there. But today, I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 1: you why. Because the truth is, I don't just want
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  Speaker 1: to live at the beach because it's beautiful. I want
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  Speaker 1: to live there because of how I feel when I'm there.
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  Speaker 1: When I think about the beach, I think about peace.
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  Speaker 1: I think about taking a deep breath and not feeling
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  Speaker 1: like the weight of the world. is sitting on my shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: I think about walking along the water with my shoes off,
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  Speaker 1: feeling the sand underneath my feet, hearing those waves crash
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  Speaker 1: and just being able to say, I'm okay. Maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm really looking for. I'm not looking for a
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  Speaker 1: perfect life. I'm not looking for a life without problems.
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  Speaker 1: I just need a little more peace in the life
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  Speaker 1: I already have. Because you know, life hasn't always been easy.
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  Speaker 1: I've had my struggles. I've had moments where I've questioned myself.
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  Speaker 1: I've worried about money. I've worried about work. I've worried
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  Speaker 1: about the future. I've had days where I felt I
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  Speaker 1: was just going through the motions. I would just get up.
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  Speaker 1: I would go to work. I would pay the bills.
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  Speaker 1: I would take care of responsibilities and do it all
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  Speaker 1: over again. And there's nothing wrong with working hard. There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing wrong with responsibility, but sometimes... You start asking yourself,
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  Speaker 1: is this really how I want to spend the rest
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  Speaker 1: of my life? And that's when I picture the beach.
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  Speaker 1: I picture myself waking up in the morning, getting my coffee,
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  Speaker 1: walking outside, and hearing the ocean. Not because of my vacation.
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  Speaker 1: Not because I've got a week off. But because I
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  Speaker 1: live there. I'm living the dream. And I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to pretend that that dream is easy, because it's not.
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  Speaker 1: I have responsibilities. I have work. I have bills. I
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  Speaker 1: have people I care about. I can't just throw everything
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  Speaker 1: into a truck tomorrow and say, Adios amigos, I'm moving
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  Speaker 1: to the beach. As much as I might want to.
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  Speaker 1: Because somebody still has to pay the bills. And that's reality.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm taking my time. I'm working towards it. I
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  Speaker 1: want my work to be secure before I make that move.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know that when I finally get there,
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  Speaker 1: I can actually enjoy it. I don't want to move
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  Speaker 1: to the beach and spend every day worrying about money.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to trade one kind of stress for another.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do it right. I want to earn it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's important to me because when I finally make
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  Speaker 1: the move, I want to be able to look back
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  Speaker 1: and say, I didn't give up. I've worked for this.
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  Speaker 1: And I can already picture the first morning. I wake up.
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  Speaker 1: I walk outside. I smell the ocean. I grab my coffee.
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  Speaker 1: And I walk down to the water. Maybe nobody's around.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's early. Maybe the sun is just coming up.
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  Speaker 1: And I just stand there. And I think about everything
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  Speaker 1: it took for me to get here. Every long day.
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  Speaker 1: Every stressful day. Every time I wondered if I was
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  Speaker 1: going to be okay. Every time I thought about giving up.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'd look at the ocean and I'd realize,
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  Speaker 1: I fucking did it. I'm here. I made it. Not
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  Speaker 1: because life suddenly became perfect, but because I kept going.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's a sunset. God, the sunset. There's something
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  Speaker 1: about a sunset over the ocean that makes you stop.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you put your phone down. It makes you
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  Speaker 1: forget about the clock. It makes you realize that sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the most beautiful things in life don't cost anything. You
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  Speaker 1: just have to be there to see them. I want
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  Speaker 1: to sit on a beach at the end of a
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  Speaker 1: long day. watch the sun disappear, listen to the waves
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  Speaker 1: and think, this is exactly where I'm supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll have a cold drink beside me. Maybe I'll
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  Speaker 1: have some Kenny Chesney playing. Maybe I'll be sitting there
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  Speaker 1: by myself and honestly, I'd be okay with that because
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  Speaker 1: being alone and being lonely aren't always the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes being alone is where you finally find some peace.
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  Speaker 1: And that's something I think I've learned as I've gotten older.
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  Speaker 1: You start realizing that life isn't about having everything. It's
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  Speaker 1: about figuring out what actually matters to you. And for me,
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  Speaker 1: it's family. It's the people I love. It's having meaningful work.
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  Speaker 1: It's being able to take care of myself and the
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  Speaker 1: people who depend on me. It's having something to look
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  Speaker 1: forward to. It's somewhere along the way. The beach became
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  Speaker 1: part of that picture. I don't know exactly when I'll move,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe it'll be sooner than I think. Maybe it'll
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  Speaker 1: take longer. Maybe life will throw something at me that
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  Speaker 1: changes that timeline. But I'm not giving up on that
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  Speaker 1: dream because I believe it's okay to have something you're
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  Speaker 1: working towards. Something that keeps you motivated. Something that makes
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  Speaker 1: you say, I'm not there yet, but I'm getting there.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where I am. I'm not at the beach yet,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm working towards it. I'm trying to get my
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  Speaker 1: work situation where I need it to be. I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to make sure financially I can handle it. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: trying to make bad decisions because when that day finally comes,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to look back and regret rushing it.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know I did everything I could to
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  Speaker 1: make it happen. Maybe one day, I'll record an episode
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  Speaker 1: of this podcast from my porch and you'll hear the
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  Speaker 1: ocean in the background and I'll say, remember when I
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  Speaker 1: told you I was going to move to the beach?
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  Speaker 1: And I'll smile because I finally did it. I will
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  Speaker 1: be there. And that's what I'm working toward. A simpler life.
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  Speaker 1: A quieter life. A life where I can appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: little things. A life where after a long day at work,
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  Speaker 1: I can walk down to the water. A life where
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  Speaker 1: I can watch the sunset whenever I want. A life
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  Speaker 1: where I can wake up and say, I'm exactly where
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  Speaker 1: I want to be. Exactly right. I'm exactly where I
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  Speaker 1: want to be. And that's exactly the reason why I,
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  Speaker 1: Mike D, want to move to the beach. And I
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  Speaker 1: will be there. Someday. Hopefully someday soon. But ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to do it for today's episode. I greatly
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you all being here. I appreciate you listening. And
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  Speaker 1: as always, I will see you all on the next episode.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.