7 Days In Hawaii
Summary: Seven days in Hawaii changed the course of my life forever. Seven days and thousands of dollars. The year was 2012. I had taken my first jump into being an entrepreneur, a jump I took without a parachute. I was sick of my job, sick of living an ‘average’ life and finally bought into the belief that being an entrepreneur was my ticket to freedom. Man, did I have plans…. vacations, cars, philanthropy, you name it.<br> Monetarily, my first venture was a Titanic level failure. It didn’t help that the company I joined went from <a class="zem_slink" title="Personal development" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_development" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">personal development</a> to real estate investing in a period of about 6 months, yet sometimes, even in crashing and burning, the entire course of your life could change for the better.<br> In the summer of 2012, I took my entire family to Hawaii for a vacation/live event. Even though the investment in doing so was enormous, there was just something telling me I had to be there. I had to get to Hawaii, I had to take the entire family, or else I’d regret it for the rest of my life.<br> <br> <br> If you want something you’ll find a way…if not, you’ll find an excuse. #entrepreneur<br><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=If+you+want+something+you%27ll+find+a+way...if+not%2C+you%27ll+find+an+excuse.+%23entrepreneur&via=fitfldad&related=fitfldad&url=http://fitfldad.com/seven-days-hawaii/" target="_blank">Click To Tweet</a><br> <br> Between the event, the airfare, the hotel…the trip was going to cost more than I had ever spent in one place outside of buying my house or buying a car. Like I said, Hawaii was calling, so I put together the money any way I could think of.<br> <br> I pulled some out of my retirement<br> I sold my car<br> <br> I did whatever I could to come up with the huge wad of cash it was going to take to get all 5 of us to Hawaii.<br> In those 7 days:<br> <br> * We hung out on <a class="zem_slink" title="Waikiki" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=21.2636111111,-157.821388889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=21.2636111111,-157.821388889%20(Waikiki)&t=h" target="_blank" rel="geolocation">Waikiki</a><br> * We visited <a class="zem_slink" title="Pearl Harbor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Pearl Harbor</a><br> * We sat in a room for hours learning from <a href="http://www.proctorgallagherinstitute.com/" target="_blank">Bob Proctor</a><br> * I met one of my best friends, <a href="http://everydayissaturday.com/" target="_blank">Sam Crowley</a>, who taught me everything I needed to know about going for my dream AND launching my own podcast<br> <br> The intangible things I got from those 7 days far outweigh the Armageddon like failure of the company I joined.<br> You see, I wanted out of the job I had and the life I was living.<br> I had long since decided that’s what I was going to do.<br> It wasn’t until February 2012, when the dominoes started falling, and I started taking whatever actions I needed to take in order to get those 7 days in Hawaii that I truly made the decision to change my life.<br> <br> Unless you take action, you haven’t really made a decision – Tony Robbins<br><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Unless+you+take+action%2C+you+haven%27t+really+made+a+decision+-+Tony+Robbins&via=fitfldad&related=fitfldad&url=http://fitfldad.com/seven-days-hawaii/" target="_blank">Click To Tweet</a><br> <br> You can ‘decide’ all day long how you want your life to go. But nothing is going to change until you take action to make it so.<br> <br> Hey… the Hot Mess Express podcast is now available on: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hot-mess-express/id1060834012?mt=2&ls=1" target="_blank">iTunes</a>, <a href="http://www."></a>
