Summary: “’How to Quit Working.’ isn’t about not doing anything…it’s about doing something you enjoy so much it’s not work.” – Jeff Steinmann The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #65 - Entrepreneur Jeff Steinmann Our next guest on episode #65 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo is a gentleman who went through a time in his life when he felt stuck and was having trouble getting out of it. He eventually was able to find a way, to make the leap, Mr. Jeff Steinmann. That leap led him to the creation of the popular website ‘How to Quit Working.’ Think about it, do we really want to quit working? Or do we want to do that thing we are passionate about and get paid for it? There is a way! There is an entire community and movement that have been created to help people make this dream come true. Let’s find out why Jeff calls himself a ‘Freedom Fanatic’ and is fiercely devoted to finding a better way to “do life”. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 2:25 Jeff takes us back to when he was on the same life course almost all of us have taken, going to high school, then college where you are some how supposed to figure out what it is you want to do for the next 45 years – when you have never even tried it. Jeff couldn’t figure out what he wanted to do and bounced around college for 13 years. He didn’t have anything he cared about enough to work towards. He settled into the computer tech business doing systems analysis and project management. It wasn’t where he wanted to be though; he wanted to be an entrepreneur. He knew he should run his own company. He went so far as to work up a great business idea and set up the meeting where he would tell his boss he quit – he chickened out. He decided he would just have to live with this decision and make the most of it. He moved through the corporate grind for 12 years, why not everybody has a life like this, right? 7:00 Jeff got to the point where he knew he had to find a way to do something different, and make it work. He started researching and realized that he had to get smarter about how to achieve his goal of becoming an entrepreneur. Jeff put himself in the position to make the transition, called another meeting with the boss and actually quit! 9:30 Is it really that people want to quit working? Jeff tells us, they want to live life on their terms, do something they are really passionate about. “’How to Quit Working.’ isn’t about not doing anything…it’s about doing something you enjoy so much it’s not work.” This lets you put the things that are really important to you in the center. Often the most important thing in our life is our family. The trick is, you take that and put it in the center of your life and build how you make money around that. The sad thing is we are taught to take the way we have to make money and put that in the center of our life. We then fit family, hobbies, passions and all of the things that are really important, around that. Unfortunately when we approach things that way, the things that are the most important to us are the first things to be dropped off the list. 12:30 Jeff points out that it is important to look at your life holistically. We need to figure out what is important in the long term, even after our children are grown and out on their own. 13:50 Jeff says they get people at different stages in their journey. “My goal with everything that we have is to move customers through a process that gets them closer and closer to that life of their dreams.” 22:00 Jeff’s biggest bucket list goal, his big dream is to create an environment where children can grow and learn the attitudes, habits and mindsets that make them happy and live the most successful lives they can. He wants to help people live their vision. 24:35 Jeff would like to leave us with this thought: "everything around you is the way it is, only because someone decided that was the way it was going to be. You have the power to change it.
