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Finding Quality Moments
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In this episode, we’re covering how we search for quality moments and pockets of peace in our life. This issue was inspired by Ed Mylett and his recent thoughts on this. https://www.edmylett.com/
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Transcript
Introduction to 'Thoughts for Rent'
00:00:19
Irelynn Zurflueh
Welcome back. Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. It's Thoughts for Rent, Realtors Keeping It Real with Max Zerflu, Williams Realty, the McKenna team, and Jenny McKenna, broker owner of McKenna Property Management, and my wife.
00:00:37
Irelynn Zurflueh
Hi, Jenny. How's it going? It's going good. how are you doing, Max? I'm loving it. It's a good day today. Is it? Why is it such a good day today? because I'm alive and I'm living life and I'm taking advantage of every opportunity i get to have quality moments in my life.
00:00:52
Irelynn Zurflueh
Quality moments. That's an interesting concept. Are you not fired up for today's discussion? I am so, can't you tell? Look, I mean, i am just chill because I like to talk to you about these things and quality moments is something that, that I believe in. And I think we've experienced it and, and we've been intentional about it within, especially since we've had children.
Life's Transition with Independent Children
00:01:17
Irelynn Zurflueh
True. And it's, and since we, our children have graduated from school. Because when kids are young and you got soccer and baseball and lom and all this stuff, performances and they play the tuba and all this, it's harder to get away, right?
00:01:31
Irelynn Zurflueh
Right. So now that they're out of school, I think what Kai's been out of, well I guess he's been out of middle school for like 10 years. So I'd say for the last 11, 10, 11 years, we've really ramped it up.
00:01:44
Irelynn Zurflueh
Well, you're talking about the actual vacations that we've ran through that. But I, I tend to find quality moments, obviously on vacations, but I like to find quality moments that are just in my everyday life.
00:01:57
Irelynn Zurflueh
Do you not
Defining Quality Moments
00:01:58
Irelynn Zurflueh
do that? Hmm. Probably not as much as you, but someone asked me, i was talking to somebody today about what we were going to talk about on our podcast. Yeah.
00:02:09
Irelynn Zurflueh
And she said to me, is a quality moment just being alone and just just existing alone in your own space? Could that be a quality moment? And I initially said, no, not really. And then I thought, well, who am i to decide what a quality moment is for for anybody, for you or for anybody else.
00:02:29
Irelynn Zurflueh
A quality moment for me, I'll give you one that I can think of just right off the top of my head. Okay. We have this propane fireplace that's in the backyard. And I went out there and laid on the couch that is back there under the covered patio, turned that fireplace on and had the most incredible quality moment.
00:02:51
Irelynn Zurflueh
I got to see the fire. When was this? Well, just like a couple months ago. Oh. Not even a couple months ago, like a month ago. turned it on by yourself? Yeah. I put my feet up there. It was warm. I put the TV on and the sun was setting.
00:03:05
Irelynn Zurflueh
i don't actually get a view of the sunset, but the sky was gorgeous. And for about a half an hour, I just sat there going, this is a great moment.
00:03:15
Irelynn Zurflueh
This is a really peaceful, beautiful moment. And I was all by myself. Nice. Speaking of being by yourself, quality moments
Technology's Impact on Quality Time
00:03:24
Irelynn Zurflueh
also came when you were younger and your kids were younger. Normally there was always something going in the house, but sometimes you'd find yourself in the living room all by yourself.
00:03:33
Irelynn Zurflueh
No kids were there. Dog was asleep. Wife wasn't there. You were by yourself. And those are some pretty nice moments. but So now that I think about it, being alone can be fun too. Yes. And I think that that the most important thing that I wanted to share is that our...
00:03:51
Irelynn Zurflueh
Life right now, and I say our life, meaning just life in general, is very fast paced. Everything is about how quick can you get things done? You know, what computer program will will be efficient and eliminate that task so it's all AI or it's, you know, computer generated?
00:04:08
Irelynn Zurflueh
And a lot of people are just rushing and I think they're missing quality moments. I really, and and what I'm scared of, of course I'm 54 now.
00:04:20
Irelynn Zurflueh
So if you had told me this back when I was in my twenties, I would have been like, Hey, I got plenty of time. I don't need to worry so much about it. I need to worry about making money. I need to worry about the company. I need to do, do, do, you know, and on and on and on.
00:04:32
Irelynn Zurflueh
And I think that sometimes we're running around so crazy so fast about what we think we should be doing that we forgot. we do We just forget to take a breath.
00:04:43
Irelynn Zurflueh
Yeah, I agree with you. And I also, you'll notice when you're watching a sporting event or a show or everybody's literally standing there filming what they're watching.
00:04:53
Irelynn Zurflueh
Yeah. Yeah. Every time I see that, I think you're not enjoying it. You're not enjoying it as if you were just there taking it in. So I do think there's a couple of quality moments that might be lost.
00:05:04
Irelynn Zurflueh
Opportunities might be lost, but I guess we should probably talk about why we're talking about quality moments. Well, before you do that. What's the problem? What's the issue? We all have them, right? but I want to talk about what you just said. Okay.
00:05:17
Irelynn Zurflueh
So you're right. Whenever you're anywhere, everybody's pulling out their phones and they're trying to get some kind of footage, whether it be people fighting in the parking lot or there was a fender bender in the parking lot. Everybody pulls out their phones, right?
00:05:31
Irelynn Zurflueh
And I'm talking about that kind of stuff because that's why people want to get viral. They want something that you're making viral. Yeah. So I get that and I'm okay with that. The other side of it is exactly what you said. Sporting events, are they really present or are they just trying to get that viral video so that they can post it and then get lots of likes and lots of comments?
00:05:56
Irelynn Zurflueh
And I agree with you. I'm maybe I'm in, you know, the mono the minority. Monogamy. I hope so. No, oh not the majority, but the minority. I think you do miss the opportunity of where you're at if all you're worrying about is what you're filming. it's like ah at our daughter's wedding, she made the ceremony cell phone free.
00:06:18
Irelynn Zurflueh
So people could be there in the moment and not be taking pictures or trying to take images, but just being in the actual moment. you know what? And I, because I didn't have my cell phone for that ceremony, I put my so cell phone somewhere else and I missed every photo I could have possibly taken at the reception.
00:06:35
Irelynn Zurflueh
So after that, I was like, crap, forgot. You got to experience the day. I did. Raw and in person and live. So that's better than any image in my estimation. Lots of snapshots in my head for those for that. reason Beautiful.
00:06:49
Irelynn Zurflueh
Those are some good opportunities. Good moments. Those are great moments. What we're talking about, quality time, quality moments, because we got to give some, a shout out to Ed Milet. I re-listened to a podcast of his today about quality time, QTR, quality time remaining. And he even says in his podcast, once I, you know, people are going to be taking this information and then they're to use it, but that's okay because then people will hear it. And yes, Ed, we're doing it. We are. um Ed Milet though, outstanding podcast if you want to check that out too. Kudos to them. Great motivational speaker, life coach, author.
Influence of Ed Milet's Podcast
00:07:22
Irelynn Zurflueh
But, and the issue or the main topic of the conversation with him was that QTR, quality time remaining, how much do we really have? How much do we know that we have?
00:07:35
Irelynn Zurflueh
Do we don't know? I don't know if in two years, somebody in my family is going to pass away unbeknownst to me or as a sort of a surprise, and I will have lost two years. time with them because I thought I had plenty of time left we all or it could be me or it could be, it could be a car accident that changes my life dramatically.
00:07:52
Irelynn Zurflueh
And if I don't take advantage of the current moment to have quality time, quality moments, I'm going to miss out. So that's the that's the topic today, folks. That's what we're talking about.
00:08:03
Irelynn Zurflueh
And we hope that hope you can take it in and and you know give us some feedback. We'd love to hear what your what your thoughts are, not only about the topic, but also about good ways to have quality moments with your family or with your partner.
00:08:16
Irelynn Zurflueh
Well, I know that we get a little bit. of, I don't want to say criticism, but maybe comments you and I oh about how often we vacation.
00:08:31
Irelynn Zurflueh
And we've kind of done that our whole life. We've always made that ah priority to vacation either with the kids or with ourselves, um you know, going as a couple so that we can make sure that we have a ah strong marriage and so forth.
The Value of Active Vacationing
00:08:46
Irelynn Zurflueh
And I look back on that and I think to myself, We needed to do that because we were both healthy. You were, you know, we were both active.
00:08:58
Irelynn Zurflueh
This was the time to do it because we never knew what tomorrow was going to look like. No one knows. And as we've gotten older and, you know, Max over here doesn't like to hike anymore.
00:09:10
Irelynn Zurflueh
Wait, when when did I like to hike like exactly? Well, he never did. But we have to now tone down our vacations a little bit where it's less walking. And more, you know, more of a 58 year old. We were in Strasbourg, France, and you had me biking all over the city and I was feeling my Cheerios and I tried to run up the steps of a cathedral and fell over. So, yes, maybe you're right a little bit.
00:09:35
Irelynn Zurflueh
And we're still able to do stuff. but But once you agree that as you get older, you do get a little bit more, things are limited. No, absolutely. yeah So I say to everybody, don't wait.
00:09:47
Irelynn Zurflueh
So many people say, do this first, save this now. And then go do that European trip or, you know, motor mortar coach across, you know, the ah United States.
00:10:01
Irelynn Zurflueh
Wait, wait, wait until it's the right time. When's the right time, Max? I mean, everything. If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never come. And vacationing isn't always relaxing.
00:10:13
Irelynn Zurflueh
We're about to go to Arkansas for two weeks and we're leaving Las Vegas. We are going to tow a pontoon boat behind us and we are going to... It's going to be relaxing.
00:10:26
Irelynn Zurflueh
Well, we hope it is, but let's say getting there is not necessarily going to be relaxing. The planning of it wasn't relaxing. Yeah. right You do all of that so that when you're there for the two weeks, you have your quality moments.
00:10:41
Irelynn Zurflueh
And that quality moment might literally be sitting overlooking the lake when the sun is setting. I'm going to yawn because I'm thinking about the sunset. But anyway, you're totally right.
00:10:52
Irelynn Zurflueh
And many people, I think when they go, Hey, let's sit around the table here and talk about something we could do. And they go, Oh, but it's 20 hours away by car. And Oh, we got a book a place and we got to make sure this is done. And then we got to leave our house and the dogs and the hog.
00:11:08
Irelynn Zurflueh
And that's why people don't do
Challenges and Importance of Trip Planning
00:11:09
Irelynn Zurflueh
stuff. And I, I feel their pain. I'm not saying that that's not a legitimate, you know, reason. It's just when we're talking about quality moments remaining, we may not have very many.
00:11:24
Irelynn Zurflueh
And this is true for, we're in our 50s. Well, you're 29, but I'm 59, 58. And we're in our 50s. So we start to look at that a little more intent intently, right? We go start to look at how much time do we have left?
00:11:36
Irelynn Zurflueh
and Literally. Quality time. well first How much quality time? first i would look I first look at how much time. And I obviously have to remind myself, you don't know, Max. Correct. But I don't want people in their 20s and 30s to start going, oh, yeah, I got i got time.
00:11:52
Irelynn Zurflueh
I'll do that when I get to when I'm 40. I'll do that when I get to when I'm 50, when I'm not working so much. it's It's backwards, right? You work, you're you're young, you're healthy, you work, you're healthy, then you don't work and you're not healthy and you can't have fun. It's just totally
Finding Local Quality Moments
00:12:09
Irelynn Zurflueh
wrong.
00:12:09
Irelynn Zurflueh
It's messed up. So my advice to a 20-year-old is to say, I got to do stuff now. I'm happy that our children I say children. Can you say your children when they're in their twenties? No, they're young adults now. our kids, is that a better word? They all like to travel and do stuff. And I'm happy about that.
00:12:26
Irelynn Zurflueh
And I think it's important to instill in your children and your kids and your, your family, go do stuff. Don't let the, the difficulties of the thing stop you from having fun.
00:12:37
Irelynn Zurflueh
Well, so there's quality moments and then there's vacations, right? Which can be one of the same, but there's also ah bucket list.
00:12:50
Irelynn Zurflueh
And I think a bucket list is a little different than your quality moments on vacation. I like to look at as two separate things. The bucket list is great. You you know, this is what I want to do. i want to go to an Antarctica on a cruise or something like that.
00:13:04
Irelynn Zurflueh
But then why not just say this weekend, I'm going to take Saturday and I am going to hike for four hours by myself.
00:13:16
Irelynn Zurflueh
And I'm going to actually look at nature or I'm going to just spend a little time trying to be intentional of getting a quiet moment that is something I'll always remember.
00:13:30
Irelynn Zurflueh
i Sounds good. so separate things. What are we talking about? Bucket list or moments or are we doing? I think it's two separate things. Well, sure. So if you... they are two separate things. Well, the reason I bring up bucket list is because a lot of 20-something individuals, the younger group, will always say, oh, yeah, I've got my bucket list ready. I'm i'm putting everything on my bucket list.
00:13:47
Irelynn Zurflueh
And that's great. Those are usually... In my opinion, they're like the big vacations. They're the ones you really got to save for, you really got to go do, you got to be you know ready to to take the week off of work work or whatever.
00:14:01
Irelynn Zurflueh
But when you're talking about quality time, does it need to be that? No, and of course not. And there was an example that, I mean, i have a little doggy.
00:14:12
Irelynn Zurflueh
His name is Bernie. And when Bernie lands on my lap at the end of the day and kisses my face, I look at that as a memorable moment.
00:14:23
Irelynn Zurflueh
Sure. You probably look at it maybe too much. It's just a dog, honey. and but Those are the moments that they internally make you happy. I feel like you love the dog more than you love me. Let me just throw it out here. in this Unconditional love. That dog gives me unconditional love, Max. As do We'll see about that.
00:14:41
Irelynn Zurflueh
it's fun. You're right. The moment when your dog comes up to you loves you is pretty incomparable. For sure. This is what I think happens. Life happens. And that moment with the dog, you don't really breathe it in or acknowledge it.
00:14:58
Irelynn Zurflueh
And it just, it's like a nothing. And I think the secret is that when you have those moments, you identify them, and then you kind of put them in your brain and go, i just had one of those.
00:15:12
Irelynn Zurflueh
Sure. I agree. It's important to note them. It's most important to have them, and then important to realize you just had one. And I think we talk about vacations, bucket list, moments.
00:15:22
Irelynn Zurflueh
What we have to also do is where we live, we can't just become the Go home, have a meal, go to bed, watch Netflix, chill. Wait, go to bed and then watch Netflix? Well, whatever. They're not necessarily
Exploring Local Adventures in Las Vegas
00:15:36
Irelynn Zurflueh
in order.
00:15:36
Irelynn Zurflueh
You go home, Netflix and chill, go to bed. All these things. We just repeat that. And if we just did that, it's it's just a sign of just accepting what our life is.
00:15:48
Irelynn Zurflueh
But what you've done lately, and and we've jumped I've jumped on board with it, is we've really embraced our city. And we happen to live in Las Vegas, so there's lots of stuff to do. Such a cool And I think it's probably that opportunity exists in any city in America, any town even. you know Maybe there's a new restaurant that you wouldn't even think about trying because, yeah I don't know, like to go to this place.
00:16:07
Irelynn Zurflueh
But you need to try all the new things and try different things. And here in Vegas the other day, we went to a restaurant called S Grizzly by Chef Mark on Blue Diamond and Rainbow that was outstanding.
00:16:19
Irelynn Zurflueh
Correct. And if we were in our normal, we went to a movie. and Normally, we would have like, ah, let's just get something quick or maybe something at the casino next to the movie theater. But we now make a conscious effort to to try new things and create ah quality, time, and moments in in new places.
00:16:35
Irelynn Zurflueh
So I think that's very helpful. And we did. and And that's really what happened. We went there. We enjoyed the meal. We... Had a conversation. ah the chef came over, introduced himself. It was really... that was nice. It was a great moment. and And it was one of those things that you just got to keep going with. But if you weren't intentional, if we weren't intentional... It would have been a subway. It would have been a subway at the but the theater. If we're lucky. Or it could have been a peanut butter and jelly sandwich from the house. Let's be honest, Yeah, yeah.
00:17:03
Irelynn Zurflueh
Being intentional on finding those quality moments is exactly what you need to do in order to have them. They are not going to always show up naturally. And even if they do show up naturally, if you're not looking for them, you may not notice it.
00:17:19
Irelynn Zurflueh
You may not notice I like what you and I did last year. We kind of pulled away from a little bit, but we each of us put 25 different dates we'd like to go on here locally, and we put them into a bowl.
00:17:30
Irelynn Zurflueh
And you didn't know the dates I put in. I didn't know the dates you put in. And we'd pull one each week, and whatever it was, we just went and did it. Yeah, we scheduled that week and we said, okay, we could do it on a Thursday night or Saturday night. We pulled it on Sunday and said, this we're going to have to accomplish this by next Sunday before we pull.
00:17:45
Irelynn Zurflueh
And it was great. We did all kinds of new stuff. That's actually how bought book. pulled the curling one and then it all kind of died out. That was my date. But then we didn't do it. i then yeah Curling? but do We still need to do the curling.
00:17:57
Irelynn Zurflueh
But the fun thing is, is because of that um intentional date per week that we did, We ended up
Spontaneity Leading to New Ventures
00:18:05
Irelynn Zurflueh
buying a boat. Do you want to tell everybody how we ended up buying a pontoon boat?
00:18:08
Irelynn Zurflueh
Yeah. I mean, we we had in there as one of the dates. and I think I put it in there. You did. Go out on the boat with Kai, our son. He had bought a boat that was POS. But he bought it.
00:18:20
Irelynn Zurflueh
And again, this is where I'm proud of him because he said, I'm going to do something. I'm not going to sit here on my hands. going to buy a boat. Bought a boat. And tried he worked on it a little bit, had some people work on it a little bit, literally never got it to yeah to leave the dock, which is sad.
00:18:35
Irelynn Zurflueh
But I put in there, we're going to go out on the boat with Kai. And I threw it out there to the universe. We'll go down there one Saturday. We'll ah hook it up and it'll work because that's that's what our that's what we want. We went down there, put it in the water, just sputtered and the battery was dead, all kinds.
00:18:52
Irelynn Zurflueh
And I turned over, they were, I was like, well, this is going to be a lost day if we just give up on this. So I turned over and there was a Marina there and I said, Hey, maybe we can just rent a boat. So we rented pontoon boat. Uh, it was a Saturday and we, we put his boat back on the trailer and said, you're, you're, you're done. yeah And we went out down the Colorado river from Willow beach and had a great time and enjoyed the river, enjoyed the time out there. And,
00:19:15
Irelynn Zurflueh
The next day was Sunday. We went to Bass Pro Shop and bought a pontoon boat. I know, because you know what? Those moments that we had on that rented pontoon boat are still some of my incredible memories.
00:19:28
Irelynn Zurflueh
And so that quality moment is what got us to where I wanted more of those. So we were very intentional. We went down, we bought the pontoon boat and we've been going and doing Well, now we down the Bass Pro Shop. I didn't know we were to buy a boat.
00:19:41
Irelynn Zurflueh
So you and I have different personalities. I knew we were. The only reason we bought a boat is because you're spontaneous and an absolute nut. Hey, I studied for three hours before we went down to Bass Pro Show. Like when we bought our trailer, our fifth wheel, we went down to.
00:19:56
Irelynn Zurflueh
Camping world? Where'd we go? Camping world? We went down to camping world and I said, as we were approaching, I said, and I promise we we're not going to walk away here owning a trailer. And she said, I can't make that promise. And a couple hours later, we were at the M Hotel having a hamburger with a deed for a trailer in our pocket. But we didn't even have a truck to pull it yet.
00:20:14
Irelynn Zurflueh
You're an absolute crazy woman. No, you know what I... No, no, you're crazy. I might be a little crazy, but love creating these quality moments.
Overcoming Fears for Memorable Experiences
00:20:25
Irelynn Zurflueh
And sometimes you have to do crazy things to, to imagine if we hadn't got that trader a couple years later, I wouldn't have caught the back of it on a pole at a gas station in St. George and pulled the whole back end up. That's a whole other podcast, Max. That's a whole different. See, this is part of the thing though.
00:20:40
Irelynn Zurflueh
People will avoid doing things. Mm-hmm. that they're not sure about for fear that something could go wrong. And I, when it went, like when you, we got married, we were, we were having kids and I said something about, well, we got to make sure that they're protected from this. And you said they could walk out and be it hit by a bus tomorrow.
00:21:01
Irelynn Zurflueh
We just don't know we don't know. So first of all, we you know, you instructed me and taught me, don't be worrying about every little thing. It's all going to work out and it's okay if it's going to be a little difficult because of the payoff is going to be amazing.
00:21:14
Irelynn Zurflueh
I agree that. Well, Max, we've talked for about 20 minutes. I think we've, I think we've, we've enlightened a little bit on the quality moments remaining.
00:21:26
Irelynn Zurflueh
And I think that now we should send it off to all the listeners to actually go and put a plan in place to be intentional about finding them.
Intentional Creation of Quality Moments
00:21:36
Irelynn Zurflueh
Stop listening to us talk about it.
00:21:38
Irelynn Zurflueh
And like Phil Knight,
00:21:41
Irelynn Zurflueh
And the logo for his company, the brand, the ah slogan for his company. What should they do, Jenny? Just do Just do it, baby. That's Thoughts for Rent with Max and Jenny here coming to you from Henderson, Nevada.
00:21:55
Irelynn Zurflueh
Realtors keeping it real. We're excited to have been here with you today. I would love talking to you, Jenny, and we'll see you next time on Thoughts for Rent. Bye-bye. Say bye-bye, Jenny.
00:22:06
Irelynn Zurflueh
Bye.