#79 - My Life’s Latest Chapter: From Chaos to Clarity

This episode is going to be a bit unconventional–I will share some personal updates because there is and HAS been a lot going on :) In this episode, it's my hope that you can be inspired by my willingness to take a leap of faith, an unshakeable self belief, and a level of resilience I didn’t know existed. Cheers to making dreams happen. 

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"Hello Everyone! Welcome to The Game of Life Podcast; I am Alexandria Burek and I am your host.

Thank you for picking my show; you will find this show is a blend of personal stories and life lessons covering a wide range of topics that are designed to help you live life, a little better everyday; my goal in sharing these personal stories, wins, whatever it may be is always to inspire you–my life is so radically different now even I am a bit amazed at the transformation that's taken place over the last 3 years. With that, no better time to get into it than the present. 

This episode is going to be a bit unconventional–I will share some personal updates because there is and HAS been a lot going on :) In this episode, it's my hope that you can be inspired by my willingness to take a leap of faith, an unshakeable self belief, and a level of resilience I didn’t know existed. Cheers to making dreams happen. 

Personal Update:

My goal with the personal update is to put my money where my mouth is and lead by example. I’ll share three personal wins, sprinkle in some gratitude, drop a new original thought and leave you guys with a song I love (link will be in the show notes). 

This personal update is literally going to be a download of the current state of affairs of my life. 
In the last week, we finally buried my grandma–which was emotional. The blessing that came of it was a nice day with my family–cousins, my parents, my sister and her boyfriend, my dogs, a family friend, etc. I built a guard rail for my basement stairs. Packed my entire life up. Staged my house. Got photos done for my house as an STR. Got my water tested. Applied for my state license. Installed a new electronic lock on my front door. And obviously deep cleaned my house. Oh and by the way, I have actually been having fun doing this. Am I tired? Yes. Am I ready to be done with all of this? HELLLLLL YES. But am I even more proud? Yes. Am I even more excited? Absolutely. The vision has finally come to life.    

Besides the laundry list of things I just shared, I am on the hunt for my next home. I have to say. I am glad I am not a normal person. Because any normal person would have surely given up by now. My plan A was to rent a furnished apartment in Chicago to test my house’s profitability and make sure this was all going to work out. Welp. That plan got tossed out. When I originally looked at furnished finder, places were listed for $2-3,000, thats tolerable for Chicago. Well now those places are $5-7,000 a month–thats literally a down payment on condo, not doing that, just can’t. Plan B appears. My friend had a brilliant idea–hes so smart–and said sign a long lease, then just pay whatever the early term is versus the super expensive monthly rate if you have to boogie before the end of the lease, I thought SURE. That sounds better to me. Well the more I thought about it, I thought, I still don’t want to pay two months rent, cause that’s still a lot of money I would rather spend on literally anything else. Plan C. So then it occurred to me, that if I get a 12 month lease, I can just rent that out as a mid-term furnished rental once I decide where I want to live permanently. Then my old landlord tells me that the minimum credit score is higher than what my mortgage guy told me I needed. Welp. That's not cool. I asked if I can just pay three months rent up front. He says no. Now I am a little scared. So. I workshop it with my friend, and decided to look at my friend's large management company’s website for rentals. There I found some really promising long term rentals. I am going to need to get in touch with those people this weekend. The moral of the story? Don’t fucking quit. 

So, by next week, I believe I am going to be moving my family and my life back to Chicago. Where. No clue. How. No idea. What type of place? I don’t know. But do I believe this will all work out well, yes. Some might call it delusional. Not me. It is an absolute trust fall into the loving arms of God and the universe. I am so excited to see how this all pans out!

Wins: 

First, my freaking place is ready for Airbnb and I already have tentative renters for fourth of july that will hopefully cover the mortgage in the first weekend. :)         

Second, I actually spoke up about something that was frustrating me and asked for clarity in my situationship. This was huge for me. This is actually the first time in my LIFE that I did something like this. I can be so strong, and so assertive in so many areas of life, but for some reason, before now, I was a COMPLETE pushover in romantic relationships. That has changed.      

Third, I teed up an incredible job opportunity to do something out of this world cool. While I was hopeful I would have been brought in earlier in the project (ground floor). I am trusting that the timing and circumstances were not right. Let’s hope these guys CRUSH it, get the project to phase two, and that your girl becomes PM of a ridiculously cool project, stationed in the Caribbean this winter!    

Gratitude: I am so grateful that my place is actually ready to be an STR. I am so grateful for all of the lessons I have learned and skills I gained and for all of the ideas that came to me in doing this project.    

Original Thought: Life should be fun. The whole point of your life is to look back and smile. If you are not crafting a life, that looking back from your death bed you think, damn. I fucking did that. You need to be doing something else. You are not too old and it is not too late. 

Feature song of the week. This week’s song is Eyes Are Closed by Morgan Wallen. It's summer. It's Wisconsin. Your girl loves some Morgan Wallen with the windows down.  

I will leave you with two questions that came out of my Landmark Breakthrough Seminar last night that I need to really spend some time with–right now my brain is a bit fried, but once I am settled, I will be spending some time thinking about these questions on walks. 
Question 1: Who am I committed to being? 

Question 2: What type of life am I committed to living?

So, who are you committed to being? What type of life are you committed to living?  

This little exercise makes me think about doing a what I discovered in landmark series. That is certainly a possibility. 

Closeout

You guys, I hope you enjoyed this episode. I hope this inspired you to see what you can do. To see how amazing you can make your life. You get one life. Your life is now. Get out and LIVE. 

Thank you so much for spending this time with me—I hope it’s making your day, and maybe your life, a little better. I’d love your thoughts on what I shared today—leave a comment, shoot me a text via the fanmail link in the show notes, either way I would love to hear what’s sticking with you! If you loved this, or even just liked it, please share the show and or give it a 5 star rating! 

Get out in the world. Do good. Be good. Byeeeee.