How to STOP doing shit you hate and START retiring TODAY

Travis Sago

21h (edited) • General discussion

Retirement Mojo Philosophy:

Retirement is NOT an event.

It's not a someday.

It's not a number with an ass load of zeroes behind it.

It's not age 62, 67 or 70 when you can start taking social security.

It's not a life of sacrifice until you get the AARP cards in the mail.

It's not a time to crawl up on top of your mountain of money, so bored out of your mind that you take a long, long, ass nap until it's time to meet your maker.

It's not living in mortal fear when the price of things go up.

It's not shitting your Depends over elections because you're worried some ass hat politician will cut your benefits.

It's not miscalculating the "numbers" and then burdening your kids to take care of you until you croak.

Retirement Mojo (which is night and day different than Trad Retirement)...

...is a process.

That doesn't start SOMEDAY!

It starts NOW! ⏲️

I don't want to stop producing income.

I don't want to sit around picking toe jam out from between my toes.

I just want to produce income WITHOUT ALL THE THINGS I HATE!

I want to wake up at 4 am without an alarm clock because (almost) EVERYTHING on my list "to do" is something that is a 10 out of 10 on the mojo meter for me!

I want to do THAT until the day someone throws a shovel of dirt on my face complete with my shit eating grin!

I was 38 the day I started RETIRING.

NOT from retiring from producing income!

But RETIRING from doing the shit I hated to produce the income.

For example:

On a mojo scale of 1 to 10...

Where 1 is...

I'd rather let Marsellus Wallace call his boys from Compton to go medieval on my ass.

To 10...

...Where I get a spiritual erection that lasts longer than 4 hours

Managing Sales People was about a 2.

A constipated calendar oozing with sales calls was about a 3.

The rest of my day (at the time) was filled with 8s and 9s.

So...

I fired my sales people.

And challenged myself to figure out HOW to sell stuff WITHOUT the sales calls.

The funny thing is...

The "figuring it out" part was actually a NINE on the Mojo Scale for me.

What that meant for me...

Was I ditched a 2 and a 3 that was sucking my mojo and replaced it with a NINE!

Even though it took me a few months to fully figure out...I was HAVING A BLAST!

After I figured it out...

My money mojo went thru the roof and I didn't have to put up with SHIT I HATED to get it.

Are ya following?

Retirement Mojo starts NOW!

It doesn't mean we retire from producing value or income.

We RETIRE from doing the SHIT we don't want to do.

💥Here's How You Can Start TODAY!💥

Look at everything you're doing today to produce income.

(You can do it on other stuff too, but we're focused on money in CFM.)

Look at your calendar.

Write down what you do during a day if you need to.

Then pull out your Mojo Scale and weigh it.

Is it a Soul Erection for you?

Give it a 10.

Is it a lead pipe moment in Pulp Fiction?

Give it a 1.

You will likely be somewhere in between those extremes.

Then look at the lower numbers.

Your 2 -7s.

Then try to eliminate one of them.

If you can eliminate the most mojo sucking one on the list, awesome.

If you can't figure it out, eliminate another one for now.

RETIRE THAT BITCH!

Here are a few things that stopped me...

...and that might come up for you and might stop you...

👉You feel obligated to do it. Most of the time I've figured out my "obligations" are actually just unspoken expectations. Speak about them with the person you feel "obligated" to and see if you can AGREE to something else? (I've found over half the time, the obliation I felt was just a smoke screen and they didn't even mind me stopping.)

👉It goes against the norm. This was me when I wanted to eliminate managing salespeople. At the time, having salespeople was the "BEST PRACTICE." It doesn't matter. All that matters is where it registers for you on the mojo scale. If it's low, you must figure out a way to RETIRE THAT BEYOTCH!

👉You don't know "how." This is common. There is ALWAYS A WAY! Don't label the problem as impossible to solve and then live with it. There is likely SOMEONE who has solved that problem. PROBABLY SOME PEOPLE RIGHT HERE IN CFM. What REALLY stops people is "labeling" it as an unsolvable problem and FEAR OF ASKING FOR HELP!

👉You are hanging on to it because of status or ego. Ask me how I know! I was super successful in the relationship advice space, but then it started becoming lower on my Mojo Scale. Travis Sago's issue was that he took pride in his accomplishments in that space. So he hung onto it for way longer than he should've.

Now...

I can not even begin to tell you how YOUR mojo will rise as you start to offload the shit from your life that aren't 8s, 9s or 10s.

It's like trying to describe how good a kiss feels.

You must experience it.

It's awesome when you are producing more and more income and they are ALL 8-10s on the Mojo Scale.

In fact...

My dear Flame...

This is OUR definition of "retirement."

Retirement Mojo is when you are producing more income than you need and your days are chock full of 8-10s!

Sure, it's intelligent to have a "reserve of cash."

Sure, it makes sense to have disability insurance if you get a brain issue. I've got a policy for $200 a month that will give me $10,000 a month until I am 67 if I am disabled enough not to be able to push buttons and talk to people.

But...

IMO...

It is a sad day. It is the first day of death. When we put ourselves out to pasture and try to "live off" our mountain-o-money and whatever Uncle Sam sends our way.

Fuuuuuck that!

I want to pop outta bed and do exciting stuff when I'm 90!

Maybe I'll pop a little slower?

Maybe it will take me longer to walk up the stairs to see Mrs. Jones. (The name I've given to my desk because Jeannie calls it my mistress.😆)

But...

I REFUSE to LIVE with a bunch of 1-7s on my list for very long.

I do NOT tolerate it!

Because I've been PRACTICING Retirement Mojo for 20 years now!

Will you start retiring today?

If not...

What stops you?

Rooting For Ya,