The Dream Life

"Fly the plane from Paris to Toronto, switch my clothes in the business class lounge, then hop on the 4PM Toronto-Edmonton flight so I can be picked up by the limo that is taking me to my hotel so that I can get a good night’s rest. Tomorrow is Saturday and I should wake up at 10AM for some quick breakfast, then off to the venue I go to set up the drums - performing a tedious sound check with the sequencer by my side, to be ready for the 7PM sold out show I was hired to drum for."

This is literally a snapshot from one 48-hour segment of my life. It is no beach vacations and Lamborghini for me because those cost an amount of money that I can spend in a better way; besides, they end up being liabilities anyway. Plus, any financially free individual knows that vacationing gets boring on day 5. If not by day 5, definitely by day 90. Your life can't be a vacation, at least not sustainably. So, the first thing you have got to do, is stopping the false narrative that vacationing and escaping is the longevity that you're searching for. It's not. I live the vacation lifestyle, and I tell you, while the career has its glories when escaping and vacationing becomes normal, it's no longer glorious. It's just another normal day. Many people get comfortable with the idea of seniority, and the golden hand cuffs settle in. I can't tell you the number of pilots and flight attendants who would give it all up tomorrow if the money and lifestyle weren't going to be a problem.

Longevity comes from living with purpose and doing so passionately. What's my purpose? To help anyone who is fed up with the systemic way of working tirelessly, and still not getting anywhere. What's interesting is that I have clients from all hierarchies. Doctors, pilots, Uber Drivers, nurses, and burger flippers. Everyone seems to have a common pain point - "I need more money." 

So, you'll find out rather quickly that money brings you invaluable gains, but at the expense of a lot more problems. In my case, it buys me time and lets me do things in life in an accelerated fashion, and I rarely have to say NO to doing something I really want to do. This does not mean I do whatever I want, because discipline is still what keeps me wealthy and healthy. But the buying power is certainly nice, and it lets me live life in an accelerated fashion. I say, what takes many 80 years to do, I do in 4 years. That’s nice. This does however come at a massive cost. What is that cost? Discipline. Why is it a cost? It doesn't come naturally. It's something I have to think about every day, all the time. When you have money, it gets easy to get complacent. It's why the lotto max winners throw it all away in a few short years. Discipline is not a comfortable place to live in - which is why on those days that I give in, carbs are my weakness ;)

Allow me to show you a bit about my story and how discipline is the mastery required to get to the other side of the financial equation. And no, I don't mean discipline by saving money - read on.

Growing up, I was definitely not privileged. Hard working parents, my dad ran a few convenience stores, and my mother was a computer engineer. They were of the generational belief that you work hard and save your money. As I went through the 90's and the millennium shift, somehow the advice of working hard and saving money seemed to no longer hold true. Teenagers were becoming millionaires, while educated contestants were fighting continually degrading wages and working conditions in many different sectors. When a doctor has to drive a yellow cab, the narrative of studying at university to become "socially" important and wealthy no longer holds true.

Financial literacy and the idea of systemic freedom quickly got my attention, because life seemed so much better on the other side of wealth. Now that I am here, I can tell you it is better. But the price I had to pay to get here, was by no means comfortable, straight forward, or lucky. I have spent thousands of hours studying, grinding away, doubting myself, failing, having naysayers saying I will never make it leading to arrays of complacency and stubbornness constantly fighting in my mind, making both good and terrible financial decisions, and the result has worked out - eventually. More importantly, though, it was through my commitment to overcome the fear of financial loss, an inner drive to not give up, and admittedly, wanting to prove that it can be done, which allowed me to make the bold decisions that have shaped my life to date. It has been no picnic. Especially in moments when I needed to be bold, yet, supporting the boldness with a disciplined, vulnerable, and psych-aware cohesive, which at the best of times is met with unsupportive masses because it's going about things a different way. They're sometimes counterintuitive, and not easy to manage, especially in a sphere of confirmation bias, which is where the majority of the middle class lives and acts within.

What did I discover?

Getting here didn't have to be so hard. The path didn't need to be filled with so many twists and turns. Confirmation bias from the crowd that is busy saving up a 5% down payment on a 30-year mortgage was never the crowd I needed confirmation from. So on...

It's one of the reasons why I have dedicated my efforts to teaching my experiences and pass the knowledge on, so that my clients don't have to spend unnecessary hours achieving success. My teachings aren't a shortcut, but remove the unnecessary paths that you'd undoubtedly go on if you did this alone. Specifically, I am interested to help anyone who is interested in helping themselves overcome the middle-class way of living. Overcoming this, has allowed me to pursue and succeed in that odd-ball life that most only dream of. To boot, I lost my father when I was 13 - 2 weeks into high school. When I say I am not privileged, I really mean it. I was an immigrant, overweight, insecure kid, who barely spoke English, with a widowed mother and a rhetoric in front of me that didn't make sense. Yet I managed to make it - I think you can too.

The rewards from mastering and continually working on my educational and psychological consciousness have been endless. It has shaped a life where I go from flying 300 some passengers from Paris as a professional pilot, to then switch into my rock-star outfit so I can go and drum for a sold-out show, to jumping on my consultation calls and helping people succeed, to trading the markets, to giving to charity, to angel investing in start-ups - you name it, I do a lot for the world I live in. Money has allowed that. To support it all, I have a lovely family, a place I can call home, and the small group of friends who I call upon at any moment’s notice. The wealth I carry in my relationships gives me a place to actually enjoy the financial wealth. For without meaningful relationships, no amount of financial wealth will solve any internal void. You need a witness in life - I've learned that the hard way.

 Most people never unveil their true potential because they listen to old rhetorics full of false narratives; especially concerning finances and “working hard.” These narratives drive people to a socially conditioned dogma, whereby they copy each other in their egotistical, hopeful, yet fearful journey of “success” (mainly driven by unleveraged credit such as mortgaged real estate), then they envy those who get to live the “high life” if there even exists such a thing? I do not know. But my life is sweet, and same with the lives of my clients who see this through to the end. Not because we made a lot of money, but because we overcame the dogma which kept us financially and psychologically enslaved. By figuring these two out, while financial freedom became reality, the chains from the systemic copy of "keeping-up-with-the joneses" life also got broken. We departed the herd, and it was the best decision of our lives.

See my client testimonials here.

Why did I start Omnificent?

I started Omnificent because there exists a major gap in the marketplace. Between the so-called “expert” educators who grew into millionaires from a few hundred dollars, to the scamsters in their fancy private jets, to the people who aim to simply teach you trading from their decades worth of results, Omnificent was created to take my clients a few steps further. See, I don’t think Financial freedom is a hard thing to grasp for the average individual. The problems that come on the other side of financial freedom however are what most people screw up so badly. Making money, sustainably, and on your time, however, constantly gets pitched as the “hardest” thing to overcome, and that 90% of people don’t make it. I believe that to be a blatant lie because the problem is not that 90% don’t make it. The problem is that 90% of people do make it; however, end up in self-sabotage and blow it all up consistently to the point where they give up discouragingly. That’s the real issue. With the right education and psychological awakening, success can be sustainable, and we help our clients fix that.

You see, the real struggle lays in what you’re going to do, be like, and behave like when you see the power that money has, solely from the decisions you make with it. More importantly, what’s the respect and discipline you will have for money once you see the power it has? Most people don’t think about this. Likely, because they don’t envision having a lot of money to begin with; that’s a mindset and cultural problem, not a realistic problem. This is why Omnificent exists; solving these false narratives. We take it a step further by helping our clients develop the proper habits to build legacies, which they pass on to their ancestral line, helping their life-line live lives with purpose, charity, and making the world a better place for years to come. As Russel Crowe said in his masterpiece – The Gladiator, "what we do in life, echoes in eternity." It couldn’t be any truer for what we do with our clients and how it shapes the future of their lives and their ancestral futures lives; indirectly, how it shapes my life when witnessing their successes.

Omnificent combines education, psychological awakening, and an obsession with not giving up in helping our clients succeed. Trading the market is not hard either, but too many emotional triggers get in the way of good decision making, and the market makers know that, which is why 90% lose. They know how to shake you out if you're an emotional gambler. Like professional flying which has its inherent risks. By going to work, I risk not returning home the same day as my peers do as well. But the love and passion for it is why we overcome all the potential risks flying exposes us to by training to ignore the emotions, and sticking to the fundamental and technical principles which keep us sustainable and safe. By relying on that, and constantly hitting the books, we find success every 6 months, and are re-cleared to fly after we pass our assessments. Well, the same exact same approach applies to trading, financial freedom, and placing money on autopilot. You need to recognize the risks and push through them anyway by getting properly educated, because the rewards are endless when you cross over from the middle class.

Financial literacy is a growing concern amongst more and more people. Most do not know how to make a dollar outside of trading their time for it, and to be honest, how could they? Most people listen to their parents, friends, loved ones, and unless those influences knew what to do with money, most people end up repeating the same mistakes, a generation later, and passing the same false narratives down the continuum of their ancestral lines.