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ChooseFI | Financial Independence Podcast

Design Your Future | Dominick Quartuccio

ChooseFI | Financial Independence Podcast

Jonathan Mendonsa & Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media, Inc

Careers, Business, Investing

4.85.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Most people who achieve conventional success—the career, the paycheck, the stability—assume that's what happiness looks like. Dominick Quartuccio had the lucrative 15-year career in financial services, the outward markers of "making it," and felt bored, restless, and uninspired. His decision to walk away and rebuild his life around intentional living forms the core of this conversation with Brad and Jonathan, where they explore how to recognize when you're drifting, how to challenge the beliefs that hold you back, and how to design a future worth living into. Key Topics Awareness of Drifting [00:10:40] Feelings of restlessness and dissatisfaction often signal you're moving through life on autopilot. Recognizing this is the first step toward intentional change. Importance of Community [00:05:14] Surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals creates support and accountability for personal growth and self-discovery. Challenging Limiting Beliefs [00:18:05] Question the validity of beliefs you've never examined. Ask "What if I could...?" to open up new possibilities. Eulogy Exercise [00:40:28] Writing your ideal eulogy clarifies your life goals and values, helping you design a future aligned with your true desires. Design Your Future [00:39:44] Focus on creating a future you're excited to live into, then identify the concrete steps needed to get there. Creating Space for Intentionality [00:32:42] Viktor Frankl's concept of the space between stimulus and response helps break automatic patterns and create room for choice. Chapters Introduction and Guest Introduction [00:00:00] Discussion on Happiness and Conventional Choices [00:01:01] Community Building and Personal Development [00:06:02] Drifting and Intentional Living [00:10:40] Beliefs and Choices [00:17:13] Designing Your Future [00:39:44] Closing Thoughts [01:18:00] Notable Quotes "You were born to do more than pay bills and die." — Dominick Quartuccio [01:14:10] "The quality of the external world you design is 100% a product of the internal world you've curated." — Dominick Quartuccio [01:01:04] "Most people underestimate their phone use by about 50%." [01:10:10] "What did you leave behind?" [00:43:00] Key Concepts Drifting [00:10:50] Living life without intentional direction or purpose, often leading to feelings of dissatisfaction. Eulogy Exercise [00:40:28] An exercise where individuals write their ideal eulogy to clarify their life goals and values. Flow State [01:10:54] A mental state of operation where a person is fully immersed in an activity, often leading to high levels of focus and productivity. Action Items Write down your ideal eulogy to clarify your life goals [00:40:30] Join a local community group focused on personal development [00:05:20] Resources Books Design Your Future by Dominick Quartuccio [01:12:14] Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl [00:32:11] Connect with Dominick Quartuccio Website: DominickQ.com LinkedIn: Dominick Quartuccio Related Episodes Episode 013: Overcoming Limiting Beliefs, featuring Alan Donaghan [01:13:06]

Transcript

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We have a very special podcast for you today.

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Today, we want to talk about the pursuit of happiness,

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and specifically looking at conventional choices

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and determining whether or not those choices make sense for your life,

0:12.0

or whether or not those conventions are actually chains

0:14.0

that are trapping you on the hamster wheel.

0:17.0

If they are, you could make the choice to live an unconventional lifestyle

0:21.0

and design the future that you want to live into.

0:24.0

And to have this conversation, there is no one better than Dominic Courteuchio,

0:28.0

who actually has written the book, design your future.

0:31.0

Dominic once had it all, a so-called successful life

0:34.0

and lucrative 15-year career in the financial services.

0:37.0

He had a good life, the result, he was bored, restless, and uninspired.

0:41.0

So he left the corporate world and focused on experiences

0:44.0

that challenged him to assess his long-held beliefs and stories.

0:48.0

And today, he wants to share this journey with our community.

0:52.0

And this is a very personal story, especially for my co-host Brad,

0:55.0

because he has relied on Dominic's coaching

0:58.0

and leaned heavily on that coaching for the last several years.

1:01.0

Brad, do you want to just take a second to talk about your own experiences with Dom?

1:05.0

Yeah, Dominic has been a friend of mine for almost 20 years now,

1:09.0

going back to our undergrad days at the University of Richmond.

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