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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
That's a pretty backhanded statement. It's as if you're saying that I don't really care about my family and spending time with them, I'm just using them as an excuse to justify my laziness.
That BTW is a classic response from a money obsessed workaholic who is trying to justify his lack of time spent with his kids, or the fact that he's on his 3rd marriage, or that his kids grew up to be addicts, strippers, hookers, whatever.
I never said I didn't save any money, or that I was looking for a handout, or that I haven't planned for my future, be that living to 100 (because I've saved) or dying tomorrow (because I've bought insurance).
What I've learned over the years is this, you never get rich, you just achieve new levels of relative poverty.
No matter how much you have, you're always looking at the guy one rung above you on the ladder and envying him.
The guy who can't afford to take a nice vacation envies the guy who can. The guy going on vacation and flying coach envies the guy flying first class. The guy flying first class envies the guy who can charter a private plane. The guy chartering the plane envies the guy who owns a plane. The guy who owns a plane envies the guy who owns a nicer plane. The guy who owns the nicest plane probably sees his wealth as more of a burden than a blessing, because everyone wants a piece of him and he doesn't know who his true friends are, and he envies the "normal joe six pack guy".
At some point, you decide what your priorities are and live them. It's not like I'm too lazy to work hard....if I was, I would have never taken the initiative to start my own business in the first place. A lazy person wouldn't dream of spending their free time "working" to try and get a new business going.
I made a conscious choice to earn less money in order to have more time for other things that are more important to me and I have zero regrets about that. Quit trying to find something wrong with me just because I don't share your worldview and worship of the almighty dollar.
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pretty whack out reply.
I never said you don't care about your family. You made it sound like the only reason you were putting in 3-4 hours a day was so you could spend time with your family. I think that is simply an excuse. but whatever, just my opinion. Atticus explained it better than me.
I'm not money obsessed, like i said a means to an end for me. Speak for your self for being the person always trying to make more and never being satisfied with what you have. Envy this person, bullshit etc... I will be perfectly fine when my passive income can pay all of my bills and give me a decent amount of play money left over, while the value of my passive income generating investments also grows. That envy crap might be you or the next guy, but not me. I don't envy anyone now, so why would I envy someone when I made enough to retire? I'm happily married, no kids, first wife never cheated muchless hookers, etc.
A lazy person is soemone who works 3-4 hours a day whether it is for someone else or themselves. Actually if they worked for someone else they would likely be forced to work more hours as they would be on a schedule and most shifts are longer than 3-4 hours.
I'm not trying to find anything wrong with you, just difference of opinion.... You stated the "work 3-4 hours a day was the way to go so you can do other important things with your life" I disagreed.
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Originally Posted by Agent 488
by your own admission you have worked 10-12 hours a day for a decade and are in the same place as snake doctor: struggling in adult and far from retired.
who has really failed now? at least lenny got to see his kids grow up and enjoy life.
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I am in the same place as snake doctor ? so I am making one sale a day hun>?
keep thinking that bro.
I'm not struggling and I am not that far from retiring either. I would have been there already if I wouldn't have strayed from adult and tied up a lot of money in real estate just to watch my net worth take a huge hit over the last couple years. I will be the first to admit I lost a lot of money in offline projects, but it certainly wasn't from a lack of working hard and I am still doing fine with adult. But bro, you know my business, im struggling like snakedoctor if you say so. Now if I could only g et that affiliate rep job