When did we become a society of followers? I understand that every community needs leaders and followers, but each household in America has a certain level of freedom.
I have been fully retired for a month, and people cannot understand how I spend my time. Even worse, they say they need their job to keep them occupied.
Have we regressed to the point where we don’t know how to spend our free time? Do we need our job to keep us busy for 50+ hours a week?
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How did it all start? School is the initial entry point into this controlled lifestyle. My kids are 17 and 12, and their schools have much stricter mandates than my day.
My 12-year-old has to wear a badge around school. If he forgets it, my wife and I must deliver it to him, or he will get suspended. This is ridiculous.
I spent 24 years in the Marines, much of it in classified areas. This school policy is just as stringent (even more so) as a military environment.
My son has five minutes to get between each class and must sign a document to get a four-minute bathroom break from class.
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Needless to say, I will probably be homeschooling my youngest son starting next year. I can better steward his time than this draconian middle school.
The illusion of freedom. My 17-year-old has some tough decisions to make about his future. He currently works as a host at a restaurant.
My wife and I are huge advocates of the military—at least for four years. There is a 25-year-old waiter who tells him not to give up his freedom by joining the military.
It’s almost comical that a 25-year-old waiter, living with his dad, is telling my son about freedom. When did our standards for freedom become so low?
It seems people are withering away while waiting for the magic freedom pill to appear. They don’t understand the direction to navigate toward true freedom.
Working isn’t any better. Then, there are the people trapped inside the “work matrix.” They are so far removed from reality that they may never escape.
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They say things like, “I don’t know what I would do without my job.” The idea of earning money outside of a W-2 job is mind-blowing to them.
I used to be a working drone, too. Even worse, I convinced my wife (who is from overseas) that she should work 40+ years as well.
Who convinced us that we need to work until age 65? This is the most ridiculous timeline I have ever heard.
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They want us to work for 50 years just to receive social security with a little income from our $500,000 traditional 401K.
The scary part is the more money you invest into your 401K, the more trapped you become. The 401K locks you into this program until you can use the funds at 59 ½.
Seeing the light much earlier. The root cause of this drone-like behavior is a lack of creativity. At an early age, we traded our paintings and drawings for books on how to become a doctor.
Every parent wants their child to succeed, and life requires money. So, instead of pursuing a career as a pianist, we push our kids to become lawyers.
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Our lives require creativity; this opens the door to far more engaging and exciting opportunities. You see the world through a bigger canvas when you exercise your creativity.
Yes, money makes the world go round, but there is a solution to earning money while being creative. You can use passive income to pay your bills while pursuing your creativity.
My pension and passive income afford me the opportunity to be a full-time writer. My life is fantastic, and I don’t need a boss to tell me what to write.
How to become a better steward of your time. Your time management starts with you. How do you spend your free time?
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Do you do drugs or doom-scroll social media all night? If so, please don’t complain about where you are in life.
If you want to make a change, today is the day. Pick up a book pertaining to a career you would love (keyword “love”) to pursue.
It can be a general contractor, musician, food truck owner, podcaster, writer, entrepreneur, real estate agent, or microbrewery owner.
The key to doing what you love is building a stable of assets that pay you every month. Let’s do some quick math.
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The math of freeing your time. Let’s say you need $5,000 per month to live a bare-bones life. With this amount of money, you can pursue your dream career or passion.
In a perfect world, you would build a dividend portfolio that pays $5,000 monthly, but that would require over $1 million.
Let’s break it down into different forms of passive income: Dividends ($1,000), Options Trading ($1,000), Roommates ($1,000), Car Rental ($1,000), and Vending Machine ($1,000).
It will take 3-5 years to put everything in motion, but it is possible. However, now you are free from a full-time job much earlier and making far more than social security checks.
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Building your empire. So many of my friends in their 40s and 50s turn to drugs to escape their mundane lives.
Once you free yourself from your boss, you have to create a new mission statement—something much grander than your past life.
My goal is to write and publish books documenting my financial journey for the rest of my life. I want to learn and utilize new forms of passive income along the way.
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I want to become a more efficient options trader, start renting shipping containers, and buy a mobile home to rent.
Conclusion. There is so much to accomplish, and that is just for me. My sons will have their journeys into business, real estate, and investing.
I will be there along the way to help them as needed. I don’t have time to work because there is so much information to give to others.
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I decided I am a much better steward of my time than my boss. How about you? Do you know what you would do without working a job?
Ultimately, passive income is the key to living your creative life. You won’t need a boss when you understand how to create money.
The world is full of money and abundance; you only need to learn to see it. Once you remove the worker mentality, it’s much easier to see a clear path to freedom and happiness. Good Luck!
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