Checkpoint
Surprisingly this is my second post this year. So I guess things are well enough that can I take some time to look back and flush thoughts on this canvas. I expect this to be a very incoherent, drunken post.
Employment is fading away. While I still work under a paid position in a modest software outfit, the way I fulfill my duties has changed drastically. I don't have to be in an office. I don't have to count hours. Most of the time I can choose when I where I work, unless a matter of some importance requires my presence. Realistically, I have achieved what is described in the 4 Hour Workweek book as location independence. Granted, I'm sure this is still in a test tube phase, at least for them. For me, I already know that I can do anything I have to do that has to do with them from anywhere.
For a few years know, I have been engaged in a path towards entrepreneurship. For employment, the writing was on the wall. It was going to be a dead end. I hit a ceiling. I peaked. Employment became a fools errand. For me, there was only 2 outcomes. Quit working under an hours for money model and live under a bridge homeless or shoot myself at some point to escape the cubicle. Either way, the answer lied in drastically change the way I earned a living while scaling my businesses. All I know is that employment was slowly driving me towards insanity and eventual death.
I been trying many things, and unsurprisingly, most have yielded little to no success. But the few things that have been succesful are putting me on a path towards passive income, that will slowly replace salaried income (which may also mean add, instead of replace), while simultaneously gaining more time towards more experiments in business that increase the chance of success. These key changes that I accelerated towards this first half of the year have been very important. Because now rather than watch things go unattended while I slowly die in a cubicle, I can now decide to take action when I decide is time to do so.
Now, the most important part of this plan is to optimize time spent on tasks, to free up more time for what are now my many business ventures. In retrospective, its going ok, but I need to do more. Close more, sell more. But I am glad that various milestones have been reached. Life, fortunately, looks nothing like life six months a go or a year ago. And that's good.
I must confess it feels strange to not have much negative things to say about this retrospective. While there has been a lot of time or money spent in efforts that have yielded zero results, the other things that have been achieved as a side effect of the sudden imperative in pursuing success have completely offset the feeling of a failure. I always hear about entrepreneurs that constantly failed before becoming successful. I guess if you fail a lot, you don't feel it. Perhaps this is why they say that. The journey is a constant state of 'fail', until 'success'. I guess trying many things continually and consistently one after the other over and over is what they refer to as constantly failing before success. I want to call them failures, but they barely feel as such. I don't know. I guess that's all I can say about the negatives of this "looking back" effort.
I'll just end this with this. Future self: I hope that the passive income levels have increased respectably by the time you come back to read this.
Employment is fading away. While I still work under a paid position in a modest software outfit, the way I fulfill my duties has changed drastically. I don't have to be in an office. I don't have to count hours. Most of the time I can choose when I where I work, unless a matter of some importance requires my presence. Realistically, I have achieved what is described in the 4 Hour Workweek book as location independence. Granted, I'm sure this is still in a test tube phase, at least for them. For me, I already know that I can do anything I have to do that has to do with them from anywhere.
For a few years know, I have been engaged in a path towards entrepreneurship. For employment, the writing was on the wall. It was going to be a dead end. I hit a ceiling. I peaked. Employment became a fools errand. For me, there was only 2 outcomes. Quit working under an hours for money model and live under a bridge homeless or shoot myself at some point to escape the cubicle. Either way, the answer lied in drastically change the way I earned a living while scaling my businesses. All I know is that employment was slowly driving me towards insanity and eventual death.
I been trying many things, and unsurprisingly, most have yielded little to no success. But the few things that have been succesful are putting me on a path towards passive income, that will slowly replace salaried income (which may also mean add, instead of replace), while simultaneously gaining more time towards more experiments in business that increase the chance of success. These key changes that I accelerated towards this first half of the year have been very important. Because now rather than watch things go unattended while I slowly die in a cubicle, I can now decide to take action when I decide is time to do so.
Now, the most important part of this plan is to optimize time spent on tasks, to free up more time for what are now my many business ventures. In retrospective, its going ok, but I need to do more. Close more, sell more. But I am glad that various milestones have been reached. Life, fortunately, looks nothing like life six months a go or a year ago. And that's good.
I must confess it feels strange to not have much negative things to say about this retrospective. While there has been a lot of time or money spent in efforts that have yielded zero results, the other things that have been achieved as a side effect of the sudden imperative in pursuing success have completely offset the feeling of a failure. I always hear about entrepreneurs that constantly failed before becoming successful. I guess if you fail a lot, you don't feel it. Perhaps this is why they say that. The journey is a constant state of 'fail', until 'success'. I guess trying many things continually and consistently one after the other over and over is what they refer to as constantly failing before success. I want to call them failures, but they barely feel as such. I don't know. I guess that's all I can say about the negatives of this "looking back" effort.
I'll just end this with this. Future self: I hope that the passive income levels have increased respectably by the time you come back to read this.
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