Chasing Money & Choosing Happiness
Bobby Singh | Chasing Money & Choosing Happiness
Selling PlayStations in School, Bobby was determined to be an entrepreneur from a young age. Now he is the well-known face and Director of Love Your Postcode ®, a multi-million-pound digital property agency built in Birmingham.
In this talk, he tells the story of being a young maverick chasing money, how a spiritual awakening and surviving depression made him see there is more to life than money. An honest 20-year tale of the hardships of life behind the perceived success of his current business.
“All I need to do is survive and find happiness. I don’t need to be a millionaire”
Key Highlights
1:00 Being smart and being brave
2:00 Wanting to be a business man and financially independent
3:00 Intuition if customer are buying or not buying -
3:30 Del Boy or an entrepreneur, selling PlayStations to get through University
5:30 Expensive taste
7:30 Acting upon advice, hidden agenda’s or really helpful people
8:00 In businesspeople don’t want to give away the winning formula so be careful you don’t get swindled
9:30 “I’m going to be brave, I want to go somewhere bigger than this”
11:20 “If it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be.” Don’t get too attached to things that you think might happen. You can’t will things to happen if they are controlled by others. If they don’t want to give you something, then that’s their choice move on.
13:00 Strategic thinking, learnt the topics that came up on the papers by looking at which would come up. Instead of revising everything.
14:00 Ego grew as his career grew.
15:00 He was a rule breaker and therefore he didn’t fit in.
16:00 Wasn’t brave enough to realise that the thing he wanted (money and the job at PWC) wasn’t actually what he wanted now that he has it.
16:25 Wanting a different lifestyle from your partner
18:10 Breakdown - losing all the money and his wife. Went through depression, loss of income, losing confidence, losing will to live.
“If you don’t take brave decisions, then why do you expect success?”
18:45 ‘”That one moment changed my life forever” - He remembered the guy who told him to go into property.
20:00 Had a spiritual awakening, found a rock in his faith. Lost his identity. Started living for something greater than him.
21:30 Became a partner of a failing company.
22:00 “All I need to do is survive and find happiness. I don’t need to be a millionaire”
23:00 The decision to become a hippy and give his watch away
24:40 “I’ve got no money. I’m going to prove you can be broke and happy” - 25:30 She changed my life by saying I love you”
26:00 Retired as an accountant
27:00 You don’t need so much money, why do you work so hard?
28:00 Now I’m going to becoming something. Got his values straight and became happy. His aspiration wasn’t money.
28:40 “If you don’t take brave decisions, then why do you expect success?”
“She changed my life
by saying I love you”
💡 Key Lessons
Chasing large sums of money won’t make you happy
The road to success is paved of many brave decisions, grounded by a foundation of learning
Love can help conquer the emotional pain and serve as a reminder as to what is truly important.
💭 Coaching Questions
What are you chasing, money, or happiness?
What’s a brave decision that will move your business forward?
Could you be more satisfied by having less?