Today was a great fucking day.
Recently life has started to go my way – my affiliate marketing business has been taking off, this blog has been growing strong and steady, I’ve gotten fitter and healthier and stronger than I’ve ever been, my social life is booming with a full social calendar where I have to TURN DOWN events and hangouts because I just can’t manage to be everywhere.
Not to mention the bi-monthly travels – including the all-expenses paid trips I took my family and my friends on. My hobbies have been multiplying and I’ve freed up my time since I quit my full-time job and decided to help the company out as an “external consultant” (I like the work they’re doing).
It’s helped me focus more on my businesses and on my lifestyle while still having an office and corporate clients that I can work with but without the burden of being tied to an office and having to be “told what to do”.
My sister also got married recently and moved into her new apartment – helping her facilitate those things and pay for them was a joyous occasion. Making good money really changes your life once you start using it to improve your life and especially when you start using it to improve the lives of your loved ones.
It’s not about buying a Rolex, it’s about buying your dad one – that’s the real flex!
And since I’m making good enough money and am projected to double my income within a year, I have started to pick out real estate for my mom and a brand new cool car for my dad. I want to pamper them.
I want to buy them a house on the beach; I want what’s best for them!
Being free from my financial worries has made me an all-round better person. I can help myself and feel a lot calmer since I can afford to pursue my passions and can afford my dreams. I have helped countless people around me – from strangers to regulars I see during the day, not to mention the people closest to me.
I’ve financed apartments, cars, medical emergencies, trips, education, NGOs, charities – I am slowly working up to the point of being able to finance a whole city just with my earnings.
Honestly, making the money I’ve made has been life changing!
But it’s not about the actual amount – it’s about how your mindset changes when you start believing that you can achieve things, when things suddenly become “attainable” and reachable.
Suddenly, things become a matter of “when” instead of “if”.
And that has nothing to do with money – but it takes you earning a lot of it to realize it!
I’ve started visiting all the places I’ve ever wanted, I’ve started going to all the clubs I’ve ever wanted to go to, I’ve started treating myself as a fully-fledged citizen of this world instead of as a second-class citizen.
I’ve taken the driver’s seat in my life instead of staying in the passenger or worse, being behind where you can’t even influence the front all that much.
This morning I woke up without an alarm clock – it was early morning but I’ve been waking up early because I like to catch the sunrise and I’m able to since I actually get enough sleep to warrant it.
I had my daily coffee in the café where I didn’t have to rush at all – I did some reading and writing, I walked in the park, I did some deep work in my home office before I decided to pop into the actual office to check in with the team and then spent the afternoon hours doing some work on my business.
Evenings are of course for hobbies and family time, after some classes I cooked dinner and had a small gathering at my place before I enjoyed some light reading (and some sex) before bedtime.
Sometimes I wonder how I got so lucky to be able to do all of these things – I wonder back to that time when I was fantasizing about all of these things and working like a dog to obtain them.
Except that time is now.
None of this has happened yet and this day I just described is a year from now.
How do I know?
Because I’m making it happen as we speak.
What we read was the fruit, not the root.
The root is pumping hard right now as we speak to make sure this happens. And since it’s underground, it feels like nothing is happening, but trust me when I say – things are moving.
And the more work you put in now, the deeper your roots grow. And the deeper the roots can grow, the higher the tree can be. And the higher the tree can be, the more shoots it can have.
And the more shoots it can have, the more fruit it can bear.
If you want to eat the fruit, nourish the roots.
And that’s what I’m doing right now.