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.’
Podcast Episode Summary
- 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
Listen to Brad and Jonathan’s thoughts about this episode here.
Links from the show:
- Jocko Willink podcast
- Tim Ferriss podcast
- Michael Hyatt
- Impact Theory website and podcast
- The Busy Trap by Tim Kreider in the NY Times
- App: Moment for Apple or Quality Time for Android (no longer exists)
- Headspace
- Cory Muscara meditation
Books Mentioned in the Show:
