Chinese proverb say: “set your own rules”
September 5th, 2009 | Published in Uncategorized, comment
I saw this tweet from @kevin_noonan this morning and it hit a nerve.
So how would this apply to building ‘lifestyle design’ (if anyone has a better description for this, I’m wide open to suggestions).
The Rules of the Game: In my case, this is that I want to have hundreds of people paying me tens of euro a month until I earn more than I spend without selling my time. Other games you can play include, earn 4x the national minimum wage and invest 20% of income for 15 years until financially free or find a job you love and do it until you die. The good news is that there are new games you can play all the time – or even come up with your own.
Set the Stakes: To me this means, what am I willing to spend in terms of capital. I don’t necessarily mean financial capital. This could mean the amount of time I’m willing to invest or the amount of effort I’m happy to spend.
Quitting time: How do you know its working? For me this is all about measuring progress. Setting a clear, well set goal and breaking it down to weekly or monthly objectives.
Carry on.