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How to be happy right now
Step 1: Become aware of what makes you unhappy currently. Sit still, breathe, and feel your body. Ignore your mind and concentrate on what's happening in your body. If you're not happy now, then you will feel tension in your body - it can't be differently.
Step 2: Focus on that tension and just be with it, without attempting to change it or modify it in any way, shape or form. Your only goal is to be with what's making your body uncomfortable.
Step 3: Once you've been with that tension, consciously decide (not try!) that you let go of this tension and want to be back to your natural state of happiness more than you want to cling to that tension.
You feel noticeably lighter when you let go of something. Repeat this for everything that bothers you and after a few months (or years) you'll be in a state of constant peace and joy. Then you can enjoy every moment, whatever happens, and don't have to lie on your deathbed thinking "what if".
First of all I have read the Fastlane Millionaire every year for the past 3 years or so. I love the book. And yes I already order Unscripted I'm still waiting for it in the mail.
I respect MJ DeMarco and his work but since the the first time I read his book I can't get over the fact that he says that money is more important than your passion. That doing what you love will not make you rich.
Imagine you're on your deathbed sweaty, nervous, trying your best to stay awake because you know that as soon as you go to sleep that will be the last time you close your eyes. You're dying on a 24k gold bedframe. But you don't care nor notice all that, you keep going back to that one thing you always wanted to be. A guitarist.
That was your dream and what you enjoyed most. But it wasn't paying the bills or putting food on the table. Nobody was buying your music either because they were been torrented. Yet you still enjoyed yourself and could survive off ramen noodles as long as your guitar was properly tuned.
But the pressure from your family to provide food and shelter made you take a detour on your dream. That detour led to riches but it also robbed you of your time with your precious guitar. Yet everytime you saw your dusty guitar in the coner of your room you told yourself next week I'll have free time to play. But you never did.
And yes I know money can buy you some good guitar lessons, your own record label, and even a recording studio. But unless you're Fastlane it won't give you time. So you either choose to strive to be rich or to follow your passion. Comfort in life or regret while dying.
Both passion and riches are essential for your life so is it possible to combine them both? Or are we forever force to decide for either or?
Are you ken from TRF ??Yes it's possible to combine them both but maybe it's not probable. Great if you can pull it off. Maybe you're passionate about guitar but you're not good enough or you are the good in a genre that won't pay the bills.
Do something you have an aptitude for. The better you get the more you will like it.
Don't do something you hate but it's OK if sometimes there may be parts of a job you hate.
It's not good to be on your deathbed thinking about how rough your life was because you stuck to your passion project! Find a balance so that you take care of yourself and also get to do what you love as time and resources permit.
I've lately been thinking there's some value in sucking it up in a pursuit that is profitable solely to create a solid financial future. Basically save up enough to become financially independent. Live within your means and do what you like. That's much better than slaving to afford stuff that won't really make you happy.
First of all I have read the Fastlane Millionaire every year for the past 3 years or so. I love the book. And yes I already order Unscripted I'm still waiting for it in the mail.
I respect MJ DeMarco and his work but since the the first time I read his book I can't get over the fact that he says that money is more important than your passion. That doing what you love will not make you rich.
Imagine you're on your deathbed sweaty, nervous, trying your best to stay awake because you know that as soon as you go to sleep that will be the last time you close your eyes. You're dying on a 24k gold bedframe. But you don't care nor notice all that, you keep going back to that one thing you always wanted to be. A guitarist.
That was your dream and what you enjoyed most. But it wasn't paying the bills or putting food on the table. Nobody was buying your music either because they were been torrented. Yet you still enjoyed yourself and could survive off ramen noodles as long as your guitar was properly tuned.
But the pressure from your family to provide food and shelter made you take a detour on your dream. That detour led to riches but it also robbed you of your time with your precious guitar. Yet everytime you saw your dusty guitar in the coner of your room you told yourself next week I'll have free time to play. But you never did.
And yes I know money can buy you some good guitar lessons, your own record label, and even a recording studio. But unless you're Fastlane it won't give you time. So you either choose to strive to be rich or to follow your passion. Comfort in life or regret while dying.
Both passion and riches are essential for your life so is it possible to combine them both? Or are we forever force to decide for either or?
First of all I have read the Fastlane Millionaire every year for the past 3 years or so. I love the book. And yes I already order Unscripted I'm still waiting for it in the mail.
I respect MJ DeMarco and his work but since the the first time I read his book I can't get over the fact that he says that money is more important than your passion. That doing what you love will not make you rich.
Imagine you're on your deathbed sweaty, nervous, trying your best to stay awake because you know that as soon as you go to sleep that will be the last time you close your eyes. You're dying on a 24k gold bedframe. But you don't care nor notice all that, you keep going back to that one thing you always wanted to be. A guitarist.
That was your dream and what you enjoyed most. But it wasn't paying the bills or putting food on the table. Nobody was buying your music either because they were been torrented. Yet you still enjoyed yourself and could survive off ramen noodles as long as your guitar was properly tuned.
But the pressure from your family to provide food and shelter made you take a detour on your dream. That detour led to riches but it also robbed you of your time with your precious guitar. Yet everytime you saw your dusty guitar in the coner of your room you told yourself next week I'll have free time to play. But you never did.
And yes I know money can buy you some good guitar lessons, your own record label, and even a recording studio. But unless you're Fastlane it won't give you time. So you either choose to strive to be rich or to follow your passion. Comfort in life or regret while dying.
Both passion and riches are essential for your life so is it possible to combine them both? Or are we forever force to decide for either or?
Every book is an opinion , guys.
There is more than one valid way to live a successful life - and not everyone is going to have one.
I bet you Steve Jobs didn't TRY to be a hard headed a**hole because he read it in a book. He just was. That worked for him. I doubt he optimized his choices in life just for cash and I doubt could have made the same impact in his life in career forcing himself to found some other kinds of companies because he thought they would get him FI earlier.
First of all I have read the Fastlane Millionaire every year for the past 3 years or so. I love the book. And yes I already order Unscripted I'm still waiting for it in the mail.
I respect MJ DeMarco and his work but since the the first time I read his book I can't get over the fact that he says that money is more important than your passion. That doing what you love will not make you rich.
Imagine you're on your deathbed sweaty, nervous, trying your best to stay awake because you know that as soon as you go to sleep that will be the last time you close your eyes. You're dying on a 24k gold bedframe. But you don't care nor notice all that, you keep going back to that one thing you always wanted to be. A guitarist.
That was your dream and what you enjoyed most. But it wasn't paying the bills or putting food on the table. Nobody was buying your music either because they were been torrented. Yet you still enjoyed yourself and could survive off ramen noodles as long as your guitar was properly tuned.
But the pressure from your family to provide food and shelter made you take a detour on your dream. That detour led to riches but it also robbed you of your time with your precious guitar. Yet everytime you saw your dusty guitar in the coner of your room you told yourself next week I'll have free time to play. But you never did.
And yes I know money can buy you some good guitar lessons, your own record label, and even a recording studio. But unless you're Fastlane it won't give you time. So you either choose to strive to be rich or to follow your passion. Comfort in life or regret while dying.
Both passion and riches are essential for your life so is it possible to combine them both? Or are we forever force to decide for either or?
If playing guitar solves other people's problems or makes them happy, you'll be rewarded. The rewards will be bigger if you can reach more people or solve bigger issues. You talked about pirated copies of your work. But I think you are in the guitar playing business not the music distribution business, right?
If playing guitar only helps you to follow your own passion, you will only be rewarded by yourself.
. Yet you still enjoyed yourself and could survive off ramen noodles as long as your guitar was properly tuned.
But the pressure from your family to provide food and shelter made you take a detour on your dream.
That's probably why 99.9% of all musicians, while trying to follow their dream, are bitter, frustrated and absolutely not enjoying themselves.
In case you still don't get it: playing songs on a tuned guitar won't solve problems for many people. Curing cancer will.
Amen...Prior to reading TMF and now Unscripted , I believed in that Passionate Philosophy too, but, when you're hungry, like literally hungry - no food to eat etc., Passion doesn't put food on the table; however, while TMF and Unscripted doesn't promote the "Do What You Love" philosophy, it doesn't sideline it.
When one builds a biz Fastlane and Unscripted , one manages to create enough time to do a lot of passion projects and follow dream passions because the foundation for income would have been set and working, therefore it leads to a win-win.
After all, life isn't about simply paying bills, and while not all passions may just be that, sometimes we can easily get lost in our passion that it blindsides us and we can lose understanding when things become to overwhelming and we don't have the means to get out.
First of all I have read the Fastlane Millionaire every year for the past 3 years or so. I love the book. And yes I already order Unscripted I'm still waiting for it in the mail.
I respect MJ DeMarco and his work but since the the first time I read his book I can't get over the fact that he says that money is more important than your passion. That doing what you love will not make you rich.
Imagine you're on your deathbed sweaty, nervous, trying your best to stay awake because you know that as soon as you go to sleep that will be the last time you close your eyes. You're dying on a 24k gold bedframe. But you don't care nor notice all that, you keep going back to that one thing you always wanted to be. A guitarist.
That was your dream and what you enjoyed most. But it wasn't paying the bills or putting food on the table. Nobody was buying your music either because they were been torrented. Yet you still enjoyed yourself and could survive off ramen noodles as long as your guitar was properly tuned.
But the pressure from your family to provide food and shelter made you take a detour on your dream. That detour led to riches but it also robbed you of your time with your precious guitar. Yet everytime you saw your dusty guitar in the coner of your room you told yourself next week I'll have free time to play. But you never did.
And yes I know money can buy you some good guitar lessons, your own record label, and even a recording studio. But unless you're Fastlane it won't give you time. So you either choose to strive to be rich or to follow your passion. Comfort in life or regret while dying.
Both passion and riches are essential for your life so is it possible to combine them both? Or are we forever force to decide for either or?
Ok so do you have any kids? Also when is the best age to have kids?Don't have kids or get married and your problem is solved. Marriage and children is a life of slavery for most people that aren't already in the fast lane.
May I add my humble two cents?In the end there is no right / wrong answer.
However I always try to deconstruct everything down to mathematics and put it into the perspective of game theory -- math is the fundamental law of the universe. From my research, what approach has the better odds of succeeding? Following your passion? Or following where there's demand? IMO, it's the latter.
...yet none of them actually built their wealth following that exact 'advice' they tell everyone; it's easier to tell people in a quick sentence "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" than it is to go through a whole course/conversation/lesson teaching people about:I used to believe that "following your passion/doing what you love" doesn't work, but then again, many overwhelmingly-successful businessmen, from Warren Buffett to Elon Musk to Theo Paphitis, say that you should.
Uh oh. You are now essentially accusing all of the world's top businessmen, from Elon Musk to Warren Buffett to Jeff Bezos, of misleading people. That is a very serious accusation....yet none of them actually built their wealth following that exact 'advice' they tell everyone; it's easier to tell people in a quick sentence "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" than it is to go through a whole course/conversation/lesson teaching people about:
1. Changing/Adjusting their mindset (because everything begins with changing or adjusting our mindsets).
2. Explaining proven principles and theories that assist people in getting ahead with business.
I don't exactly get why Warren Buffet, Elon Musk and the likes would spend exceptional time telling consumerists the real way they got ahead, when they recognise that the vast majority of people have a very short attention span, and that most consumerists do not care to make an effort to live beyond owning the next latest, shiny object over becoming better versions of themselves.
Uh oh. You are now essentially accusing all of the world's top businessmen, from Elon Musk to Warren Buffett to Jeff Bezos, of lying. That is a very serious accusation.
You're essentially accusing all of them of telling people one thing and doing something completely different : that they only tell people to follow their passions while doing something they're not passionate about just for the money or for the sake of responding to market demand.
Do you really think those people became so successful and wealthy simply because they recognized some unmet (or poorly met) demand and responded to it ? That their passions had nothing to do with their success ? Do you know their biographies ? Do you know what trials and tribulations most (if not all) of them had to go through ? In Elon Musk's case, this included the Great Recession of 2008 that hit the auto industry particularly hard (and sent oil prices down to the thirties), staking all of his life's fortune on saving Tesla and SpaceX, and being ridiculed in front of the whole world not just by the media, but also by his own childhood heroes (American astronauts such as Gene Cernan) testifying before Congress.
As Steve Jobs has said, faced with such difficulties, people who are doing it only for the sake of meeting demand (or for the money) will simply quit. Only those who are passionate about what they're doing will perservere.
And no, those wealthy business figures were not speaking to average consumerists, they were speaking to aspiring entrepreneurs at forums, seminars, and in similar settings. Here's a sample video of them speaking.
And BTW, the "don't follow your passion, the world doesn't give a damn about it, follow market demand instead" advice is nothing new. There are plenty of videos and websites by people who says so. Last time I checked, though, none of them was a billionnaire.
So basically, it all comes down to whom you listen to and whom you take your advice from.
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