ThoughtsbyTerence
How do you know if you’re on the right path? Are you at ease with your lifestyle at the moment? Can you just do what you want to do, whenever you want to do it? Do you have total freedom? If your answer to these questions are No, you’ll have some serious things to do to change your life.
Your life purpose
There’s no shame of not living the life you want, but if you do nothing about it, you’ll have to ask yourself what the purpose of your life is. I was also in that situation. I was working 40+ hours a week and barely had time for myself or loved ones. I know that feeling, working around the clock from month to month. Getting your salary at the end of the month and after 4 or 5 days your money is already gone. You have your monthly bills to pay or out of nowhere some other bill pops op that you have to pay. That feeling is not pleasant. It’s frustrating and deep down inside you’re screaming for change. You want to change your life desperately, but you’re asking yourself how? What can I do to change this lifestyle? If you’re experiencing this feeling you’re already on the right path. ‘
Time is now
There is no right time to change your life. You just have to do change it. Sounds simple but in practise it’s a lot more difficult. First thing to do is write down your goals. Compare life to an airplane and you being the pilot. If a pilot doesn’t enter the coordinates of the destination he will fly around for nothing. He will not arrive at his destination. But if he does he will get there. It doesn’t matter how hard the turbulence will be, he will arrive at his destination because of the navigational route he planned out. That’s the same with our life. If we don’t know what we want, we will end up working for people that do know what they want. Life is not about working for 40/50 years and die after that. Life is about having freedom, spending time with your loved ones, doing things that YOU want to do. Life is about listening to what your feelings are telling you and not what others are telling you to do.
My opinion of freedom
I want freedom, but I still need to work to have enough money to pay my bills. That’s what you’re probably asking yourself right? Personally I believe that we don’t need money in this world to have freedom. Freedom comes from within. There is enough of everything for everybody in this Universe. I think money is here so the “rulers” of this planet called earth can have power over us. But that’s a discussion for another time. Back to where I was. How can you create freedom for yourself? Personally I think there are only two ways.
1 – No Money. You can give up your work and start living from social security. That’s also having freedom. You’re not focusing on working for a boss and you have enough time to do whatever you want to do. You will live a very basic life and there’s nothing wrong with that. There are some difficulties that you’ll experience and that is not being able to totally do whatever you want to do. For example, it will not be easy to travel the world. Why? Because you need money. I’m not saying that money is the only option to travel, but you get my point. You have your legs and you can walk to wherever you want. Riding a bike is also a possibility or you can also hitchhike. Crossing the ocean will be a challenge but still, it’s not impossible. The question is do you want to live this lifestyle? If you want this, then I encourage you to start now. Give up that job and dive into the free world. If you’re interested in living such a lifestyle you can visit Slab city.
2 – A Lot Of Money. Option 2 to have freedom is also very simple but will be much harder to accomplish than option 1. And that is creating a system that money works for you instead of you working for money. Like I said before, I really think that we don’t need money on this planet to make a living. But we can’t change the system in a jiffy. It will take 1000’s of years and people have to wake up first instead of being sheeps. So it’s simple, go out and make as much money as possible. Not to brag about it or to show others that you’re wealthy. If you’re smart and have a good heart, you’ll use that money to help others. Of course also for your own freedom. It gives you the possibility to travel as much as you want, to be able to pay for college, to eat healthy (very expensive in The Netherlands), to simply do the things you like. It’s possible to achieve this. It will not be easy, but it will be worth it.
What’s the price?
The price to create a system that money works for you, instead of you working for money will be focus, dedication, motivation, consistency and a strong mindset. A strong mindset is very important because you have to motivate yourself. If you’re working on a full-time job, you’ll have to start working part-time on your dreams. Work full-time on your job and work part-time on your fortune. That means that you will not have any time for others. You will have to have laser focus to achieve your goals and others will not understand this. Most of them and probably you also are working from Monday through Friday, wishing for the weekend, party or do something unnecessary and then hate Monday again. That’s how 99% of the world is conditioned to live. You hate Monday simply because you’re not happy with your job or you’re not doing what you really want to do. Jep, you’ll have to bust your ass off to change your life. I mean working hard every day on that one goal that you have.
Untill you haven’t achieved your goal there’s no time for chilling with others, wasting your time that you could invest in your future. Your friends and family will not understand this because they simply don’t believe that it’s possible to create financial freedom. They’ll try to talk you out of it. That’s why it’s important to have a strong mindset, to know exactly what you want in life. Once people start calling you to ask where you are, once people start getting mad at you because you don’t have “time” for them, once people will start to talk bad about you for no reason.. Then you know that you’re definitely on the right path. You’re going against society and you start living for yourself. I can tell you, this is a great feeling. You will feel so strong and have a lot of self-confidence. Don’t let anyone bring you down. You have it in you to achieve whatever you want to achieve. If you don’t know how to create a system that the money works for you, I recommend you to read my article on how you can do this.
Remember, these are my personal opinions of having freedom. I would like to read your opinion about what freedom means to you and how you can be free. Comment below.
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This is all very true. One of the funniest things about this path is that once you acheive your goal, everyone is going to want to know how you did it. Everyone who doubted you is going to want to know your secret.
But I'm of the mind that real friends and family aren't going to get mad at you. Instead they're going to support you. They're going to understand your sacrifice, and they're going to stand by you. If people are getting mad at you because you don't have "time" for them, then maybe you don't need those people in your life.
Unless they're your spouse and kids. You need to make time for them. But you can do that, still work full-time to support them, part-time on your goals, and make it work.
Thanks for reading this Kinya. About the family and friends thing, it's something I experienced myself. But maybe it's just their old way of thinking. And I agree with you that if they don't understand I don't need them in my life. That's what's happening right now!