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Welcome to Everything Life and Real Estate where Linda McKissack and Dana Gentry share their tips and strategies to enhance your business and life.

Sep 10, 2019

If you don’t design your life, something or someone else will. In this episode, Linda McKissack and Dana Gentry share their interpretation of living a life by design. We are called to live our best lives possible. If we don’t do that, we can fall into living the life someone else wants for us. If we go through life and don’t have a decision made for very key areas, there will be a default decision made that happens automatically that we may or may not like.

According to the 100 Man Story, a survey of 100 people at the start of their working career and follow them for the next 40 years until they reach retirement age, here’s what you’ll find: 

  • One will be wealthy
  • Four will be financially secure
  • Five will continue working, not because they want to but because they have to
  • 36 will be dead
  • 54 will be broke and dependent on friends, family, relatives, and the government

Monetarily speaking, that’s only 5% of us who will be successful in creating a life of freedom, and 95% who will continue to struggle their entire lives.  Source: Income figures, U.S. Department of Commerce Publication "What's It Worth?" 100 Average Americans, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, SSA Pub #13-11871, Vernon Publishing.

By visualizing our future, we can focus on the goals and dreams and make them reality. Using a vision board, folder, or photo album can help reach those goals and dreams. 

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The world has decided that the way your life should be designed is to learn in the beginning, then in the middle part of your life you work, then play.  Statistics say we die within 18 months of retiring. Do something you love, then over time, the type of work you love will change.

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