I’m Financially Free…What Next?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VabfHO5_R0E You've achieved financial freedom so what now? How does that feel and what do with your time to ensure happiness, fulfillment and productivity? 0:00 - Introduction0:50 - My story2:45 - My motivation has plummeted5:00 - I've still got goals to achieve6:35 - No-one talks about "what next"8:00 - Transitioning from working hard to having balance13:00 - What motivates you?16:00 - How do I find balance? Recommended Videos: Can I Go From $100,000/year to $1 million/year? A Rant Financially Free at 32…Again Transcription: Ryan 0:00hey you're amazing people today i want to cover what i think is a really interesting topic is that i'm financially free so what now you've achieved financial freedom how does that feel and what do you do now what do you do with your time and with your life and how do you sort through all the emotions that come with that and that's something i'm wrestling with right now and while this is about i guess me and my journey achieving financial freedom and trying to work out what to do i think this will also apply to people who have not yet achieved financial freedom but who are looking at that life and saying okay how do i get more balance how do i find more purpose how do i know what to do long term what am i even passionate about so i think it'd be interesting topic to cover and i think hopefully you can get something out of it if not you can join me on my journey and it might be interesting at least so just to quickly cover my story and catch everyone up to speed if you aren't already i achieved what i call pseudo financial freedom at the age of 28 i had online businesses that were generating me enough income that i didn't need to work and for the next couple of years i basically didn't work i did a little bit here and there but i didn't need to work and i didn't i went through a whole myriad of emotions i found that when i achieve financial freedom which has been my life goal i thought it would make me happy and it didn't i went through what i call a great depression not an economic one but one within myself in my own life where i got really depressed being financially free and not knowing what to do went on a journey of self discovery over those two years which resulted in some really big highs and really low lows i managed to overcome an eating disorder that i'd had for about a decade as well as to overcome some depression in my life it's not something that's completely gone but it is so much better now than it was i also had some massive lows in my personal life end up going through a marriage separation and at the same time my business went through a downturn and i was no longer financially free so i achieved a 28 loss did it 30 the last two years i've been working to build that back up again i'm now nearly 32 now i am 30 2:33am i that old i didn't even know how old i am oh my god okay no i'm 32 yeah i'm about to turn 33 but for the last two years yeah i've been working to build that back up again and i now reached a point where again i've got that pseudo financial freedom so my business earns enough money to support my lifestyle where i don't feasibly need to work for at least the next couple of years and while i have plans to continue to work and to grow the business pay off all of my debt invest in property achieve that long term financial freedom i've also reached this point again again a second time where it's like okay i don't need to work what am i going to do and i thought that this time around it would be different because i've been through this before right i've had this freedom before and been through the depression and self discovery and this time building my business while i was in debt and in a worse financial situation than ever in my life i nearly went bankrupt i was way more in tune with myself and my life and what i enjoyed and what i wanted out of life and i was just so much happier in the process i wasn't trying to get financially free to be happy i was happy in the process and financial freedom was just going to be a result of my plan working out and me putting in the effort and that's exactly what happened and so i thought when i achieve this i will still be as motivated to just keep going because i enjoy my life i enjoy the work that i do that everything will be fine and what i've realized in the last couple of weeks since looking at my finances realizing okay i did it like i fucking did it and i'm back here again after realizing that my motivation to work hard writing articles i was previously getting up at 6am writing a couple of articles before 8am when i had to make lunch for the kids to go to school make coffee and then working again 9am through till you know 5pm or sometimes late in the night sometimes i shift my hours but dedicated to get as many articles as i can done as possible get in a routine of writing consistently just that massive motivation just plummeted massively and maybe that's as a result of different things in my life or not but i feel like it's just really interesting that motivation to keep going and keep pushing has dropped and i want to find that again because i'm still in debt i've got debt to pay off i looked at my debt last night and i still have 10s of 1000s of dollars worth of debt technically but i've got income or like guaranteed income from you know sales i've made or advertising stuff that won't come through until later that nearly cancels out my debt so i'm down to you know just a few $1,000 worth of debt at the end of the day once everything evens out that's where i'll be at and so it's like okay i've taken this debt from this massive unachievable nearly bankrupt thing down to this tiny amount but i still want to pay that off i still want to completely pay that off i still want to save up property deposit and invest in property and get that long term financial freedom i want to do that free i'm wrestling with the emotions of okay i don't have to work there's now no rush anymore and i guess i've realized that part of the enjoyment of the work that i had is not necessarily the work itself it's not the writing the articles that is fun for me it's the challenge of trying to achieve a goal and for me that goal was debt reduction and financial freedom and really financial freedom and just i guess you know being on top of things that i will be okay perpetually into the future and so i was like that challenge is what really drove me and really motivated me and now i'm wrestling with okay what am i going to do now how am i going to find that motivation and i realize that for a lot of people listening this listening to this it's like this is a self indulgent conversation i have achieved what most people set out to achieve in their lives and what many people never get to achieve and for that i'm extremely humbled and extremely grateful and so i'm not saying this to be like oh woe is me the financially free guy like it's not like that it's like no one has this conversation of what next there's all these conversations online of okay achieve financial freedom achieve your dreams