Kris, why do you keep working if you're retired or is it, Kris, why do you keep
working if you're retired or is it, Kris, why do you keep working if you're
retired? I don't know. I get this comment from time to time so I thought, you
know what, let's make a video about it, let's tackle it. What's behind wealth?
What's behind the and what's the real motivator for me and maybe even for you
in the game of creating wealth, creating financial freedom and getting where we
want to go.
Alright, so I hope you're okay if today's a little bit more of a casual
style video, right. Because I'm just going to share some of my personal thoughts and
feelings on questions that many of you have asked. The question is, Kris, why do
you keep working if you're retired? And I want to do my best to answer that for
you. First of all, I want to back up and share that the first time I retired, my
reasons for doing it weren't the most pure and what I mean by that is I really
kind of felt frustrated that my wife was putting it on me. She said, "Hey, Kris. I'm
going to have babies. I'm going to help produce children for this family. I'm going to be
working full-time as a mom and you got to be the breadwinner, you got to go out
there to work." We come from that traditional mindset a little bit. I don't
know, I just felt like I was being ripped off like, well, what if I
want to be in the stay-at-home dad? What if I can't find a career that I can
fall in love with? The idea of being made to work and do something that I don't
enjoy just, it felt like death. I don't know if any of you ever
felt that way but majority of us have jobs we don't like. Even when I was young,
I was like, that is not the life that I want. My original motive was jealousy,
it's like one of the reasons why I want to become financially free. I don't
want to be stuck holding the bag on a job that I don't want to do with the
rest of my life. It's kind of selfish and you know motives changed with time, mine
certainly have. And this is when it really all came clear. When I was 26
years old and I had retired, what I specifically mean by retired was I quit
my job, no longer had a full-time job and whether I worked or not, real estate was
paying me $12,000 a month. I started kicking back and my real estate had put
a little time here in a little time there but I was enjoying the fact that I
had moved into my dream house, drove whatever car the time I was driving and
just enjoying life, traveling. A trip with my wife to Jamaica. I remember on this
trip, she asked me a question which was, "What do you want to do with your life?"
and the question felt really frustrating, it was almost like she was asking me to
go and work again and yet if I was honest with myself, I hadn't enjoyed the
six month of retirement because it wasn't everything was cracked up to be.
I got home, I didn't have a job and all the sudden, I was staring
into the eyes of my 1 year old baby wondering what on earth I could do to
fill up all day long with a mom and a dad full-time just taking care of this
child. Like it also it felt just as off to me as the idea of being jealous
that my wife would never have to work so it really set me on a journey of who am
I? What's my purpose? And then you asks this question like why am I working? Like why
am I shooting these videos? Not just that but I have a number of
businesses that I continue growing and expanding. Why, if I don't need to? I
can tell you right now, I could shut everything down, probably work one hour a
day and make hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars and that's if I
just lost everything and that's all I was doing. There's no appeal to that, I've
tried living that life. You know, there's this interesting report, I wish I could
cite it specifically, maybe one of you will research it and drop it one of the
comments. It was fascinating report I read years ago about what happened to men and
women after they retired and you know what, the study showed that they had a
very short lifespan after retirement. There's a study that basically says that
working produces levels of fulfillment that chemically and everything else wise
environmentally has an impact on us that keeps us going, keeps us healthy and
keeps us alive. Retiring is dying so what does retirement really mean to you and
what does retirement really mean to me? I've had to ask. If I had all the money
in the world, if money was of no concern, what would I do with my life? I think it
changes with each chapter of life. Here's the chapter I'm in right now, I got four
kids and the oldest is just turning 12 this month and then the youngest is 6
years old turning 7 this year so four kids close together and we travel a
lot, we love to spend time, I love to take him out of school and get in
trouble with the teachers, I love to customize their education, that's a
little bratty but I love being involved with my kids' life and teaching and
educating and my oldest, my daughter Lisa, wow, she is going to be one heck of an
entrepreneur. I cannot wait till she and I get to do some more formal business
projects because I'm passing on a legacy, I'm sharing something with her so
family's a big part of my life, spending time with my wife is a big part my life
and traveling is a big part of my life but outside of that, if I just do nothing,
I don't like who I am. I'm just going to be honest here, I don't like the way that I
feel, it's not so much that nervous energy that needs to be productive,
there's just something inside that says there's more to life than just doing
nothing or being financially free means taking it easy and toes up on the beach
so what I've really learned is what my balance is and you get to learn what
your perfect balance is. My jam that I really love is work hard, play hard. I
love sinking my teeth into a project that I really care about and then I love
to balance it with a lot of fun and a lot of play like for example, I'm
producing a bunch of YouTube videos next month in Mexico and going to take a couple of
days, going to shoot a bunch of them and then we're going to stay and it'll be over
Valentine's so me and a buddy of mine and our wives are coming and we're going to
play and just hang out and spend really good time together.
So you look at all that and it's like, alright, how do I balance play? How do I
balance fun? How do I also balance nothing? And what is perfect really look
like in my world? What does it look like in your world? My morning is throwing in
generally some kind of exercise, some type of meditation, just allowing myself
to get grounded, that makes a happier Kris for me. There's usually a part of
my day that it's dedicated to doing some type of work project because it's happy
for me then there's ton that's dedicated towards my family, my wife and that's
happy for me and then there's time that's just dedicated to me having Kris
time and all of that adds up to a balance and some days are different than
others, they're in flow in how they shift but here's what I do know, I need
to be out there doing projects, I need to be creating value in the world because
it's what really lights me up inside and gets me most excited for what life has
to offer. If I can prove a video that creates
value for you or gives you the next step on your journey or gets you moving, so
it's just at the airport and this guy runs up to me with his wife so
incredibly excited said, "Man, Kris. We've been watching your YouTube channel, we
just bought our four-plex, we're living in one of the units, we're renting out
the other three and it's amazing. Thank you so much." And they wanted to take a
picture with me and I thought, my life, my life force doesn't run on accolades
necessarily recognition or needing to be thanked but what I really did love was
that what I knew was useful inspiring and helpful for his situation and so I
guess to answer the question why do I keep working? One, I don't want
to die. Two, I really just want to be happy, this brings me joy and my
different projects bring me joy. My different businesses bring me joy but
I've got some rules that I didn't have before. I don't know if I could have
afforded them but I can afford them now. Number one, I spend time with people that
I like. That's really important to me, I don't resonate with every person out
there just like you might watch me, you're like, "Kris, you're kind of weird, man.
You don't resonate with me." I get it but I'd like to spend time with the
people that I like to spend time with. My life is filled with lots of friends,
amazing inspiring individuals that I love to be around and then I only work
on work projects that I really believe in and that
believe can create maximum value according to what I know and what my
potential is. Those are some of the rules that if I am going to work, those are the
requirements and if it doesn't meet those requirements, I'm out. I'm not going
to do them. So I find that I have a lot of capacity for doing a lot of projects
that can do a lot of good and I just got to balance them with having the alone
time, the free time, the travel time, the family time,
the wife connection time, the God time, and in that world, finding my balance,
when that balance is really humming just right, I'm my happiest me and if I took
you out of the equation, if I took my work out of the equation, I wouldn't be
as fulfilled and I wouldn't be as happy. That's my truth. I don't know how that
resonates with you, we're all a little bit different but I think the principle
that is true is that there's a perfect balance that'll be changing through life
for every one of us and creating value is my jam that is one of the essential
components of me being happy and fulfilled and friends, that's why I work.
You know, it's weird. Do I really work or am I really just playing? You know, it's
interesting, work feels like work when you're doing something that you really
don't enjoy but on the other hand, when you're doing something that you love, I
have a hard time calling it work and maybe that'll be true for you, maybe it
already is but at the end of the day, part of my life is always going to be
dedicated to creating value and maybe that's what you and I really share in
common because most the people that I hang out with that have achieved a great
level of success rather than just only being toes up on the beach after they
get a fair share of that, there's this other calling that hearkens deep inside
that says, hey, there's more for us to do, let's create value for other people and
that's why I'm here making this video for you. So make sure that you subscribe,
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