Are you tired of deferring joy and freedom for a later time? Maybe when you eventually retire?
The old mindset is to work hard, sacrifice all your time and energy in your most productive years doing something that isn’t remotely inspiring so that you can accumulate enough wealth to retire and finally live the life you want at that time.
I don’t know about you but I got really fed up with this. Right, when I started my career I could sense the pain of deferring my joy for life and the freedom to experience it to the fullest only for when I retire.
Almost daily I’d hear people say something like “only 20 more years till I retire”, “I can’t travel now, but when I retire in 10 years I want to see the world”, “I don’t have time to pursue my passions anymore, but when I retire I plan to start doing it”.
I would cringe every time I heard that because it reminded me just how painful the 9-5 grind will feel like if I keep going. Until I started to ask…there has to be a better way?
The question is, what if you don’t make it to retirement? What if at retirement you don’t have the energy to do the things you always wanted? What if you don’t even have enough money saved up to travel the world?
The way of the New Rich is not deferring the joy to live life now, but to have as many mini-retirements as possible throughout your life. And living out your best experiences while still in your prime time.
It’s also about setting yourself up to work less, and experience more of life instead of the other way around.
We’ve been drilled into our minds that we have to work hard, sacrifice everything, buy more stuff, and eventually retire. If we don’t do this then we appear lazy and irresponsible.
Working smarter not harder and putting less time on meaningful projects rather than wasting time on meaningless tasks is actually effective and responsible.
Tim Ferris taught me this in his book The 4-Hour Workweek and when I invested in myself I learned how to specifically apply this to my life.
It’s all about living your life in the now, not brainlessly move through it focusing on the end goal of retirement.
When you learn the ways of the New Rich, you start to understand how broken the old system is.
Work smarter, be efficient, live your life now