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472 | The Cure for the Boring Middle | Fioneers

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Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media

Financialindependence, Investing, Firemovement, Passiveincome, Frugalliving, Personalfinancepodcast, Daveramsey, Careers, Business, Earlyretirement, Habits

4.85K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode: the boring middle, lifestyle design, flow states, moving towards purpose, experiments, and experiences.

This week we are rejoined by friend of the podcast Jessica from The Fioneers to the discuss the point of your FI journey known as the “Boring Middle,” and how through actionable steps and lifestyle design you can turn what feels like a stagnant stage in your FI journey, into one filled with growth and change! When you are well on your path towards reaching your FI goal, it is easy to feel like you’re not doing enough. But what feels like a waiting game can actually be an important time for self growth and experimentation. Taking the time to do some introspection to figure out what your core motivations are can allow you to begin opening yourself up to newer experiences that bring value into your life. So if you feel like you are currently on autopilot, there are steps you can take to shake up your routine and usher in new opportunities into your life. While you may have to quiet your own limiting beliefs in this process, you will learn more about yourself and what you want out of your life!

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Timestamps:

  • 1:12 - The Boring Middle/Lifestyle Design
  • 7:19 - Determining Your Version of Success
  • 18:41 - Finding Your Flow State
  • 28:16 - Implementing Your Designed Lifestyle/Moving Towards Purpose
  • 36:09 - Questions, Experiments, and Experiences
  • 46:59 - Making Dreams Actionable
  • 52:09 - Conclusion

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to choose a five today in the show we have a good friend Jessica from the pioneers and this one is going to be a really interesting episode because I think it's something that impacts

0:10.4

Nearly all of us on the Fai journey.

0:13.4

Jessica came to me and said,

0:15.3

hey Brad, I just recently did a presentation

0:17.8

on the cure for the boring middle.

0:20.6

And I think this would make for a really impactful Choose a Phi episode.

0:24.6

And I was instantly taken by it because this is something I hear from you, our community, all the

0:29.8

time, about, hey, the beginning of my Phi journey, it was so exciting, it was fun.

0:35.8

We had to do all this action and everything now is set and now I'm just waiting and it feels

0:41.0

never-ending and we in the fight community now have termed that the boring middle but it doesn't have to be this waiting game in fact this is arguably the most important part of your whole five journey because this is where you design the life you want to live and I think that's what Jessica is uniquely suited to bring to the show today.

0:59.7

This is going to be a lot of fun. With that, welcome to have you here.

1:13.2

This should be a lot of fun.

1:14.0

This is your third time on the show,

1:15.4

but it's been over a year and a half,

1:17.1

which is hard to believe.

1:18.2

Thanks so much for having me.

1:19.7

Yeah, this should be cool.

1:20.6

So, okay, the boring middle. First, how do you define that?

1:25.3

So I think I define it very similar to how you did at the beginning where the beginning of

1:32.3

people's five journey has a lot of energy and excitement, right?

1:36.2

We're getting the finances in place, we're learning about the mechanics, we're figuring out

1:41.2

how to increase our income, decrease our expenses, like figure out what we don't

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