If you had the chance to live your life over, knowing what you know now, do you think you could have done a little more? Been a little more? Had a little more Passion and Joy?
Did we learn something in our Past that can help us do that somewhat in the Present?
When asked, “when is the best time to prepare for the future?” The answer is often 10 years ago. But, when asked, “when is the next best time?” The answer is NOW.
I hope that somehow I can pass along a few life hacks, some big – some huge, before I or one of you get to ask that question again 10 years down the road.
I remember getting my first job at a little over minimum wage and thinking, “WOW, that’s a ton of money!” Of course it was. The most I had ever received, for the most part, were an occasional $20 from my parents for gas to bring my 5 siblings to school or when I sold candy at school in 7th and 8th grade (and paid for my brothers and sisters lunch money for two years).
When I did get that paycheck I remember turning to my Aunt, who worked with me at the time, and saying, “What should I do with this money? Don’t people do things for retirement and protection and things like that?” She looked at me with confidence and said, “Yeah, some people get life insurance or disability insurance or put it in the stock market.”
I had no idea what that meant or what any of those things were for. I was in High School (go Fighting Zebras!), ended up graduating as Salutatorian (#2 – although I think I may have been able to pull off Valedictorian, #1, if I took some additional AP classes instead of taking College classes my Senior year – the difference between Salutatorian and Valedictorian is a ton of scholarship money, by the way), and after 11 to 12 years of public education I still had no clue about how the real world operated.
Graduating for me meant trying to get a job as some fast food joint or established business, like Rainbow Market (the local grocery store), since I obviously had no real world skills (who would have guessed after 12 years of education?). I would then go do missionary work for two years and go to school for another 4-8 years to learn some skill someone found valuable enough to pay me for.
Without going into too much more detail for now, I finally made a decision that I would find the fastest and quickest way to get by, to make a ton of money, to beat the system, pay as little as possible and leverage as much as I could to get the most from the simplest strategy, any life hack I could find.
Here I want to share things I’ve learned through my experiences that might make your life (and my life) a little (or allot) better, quicker and faster. Some of the strategies I believe in so much I made them my craft and what I do for income. Other strategies I just have a passion for because they are so life-changing, so I want to pass them on in hopes they make your own existence a ton more fun, enjoyable, exciting, fulfilling and joyous.
So here’s to learning from our Past, living in the Present and preparing for the Future. Life & Style Planning.
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