First I want to talk about life a little bit.
In life, you don’t know what you don’t know.
This statement to me is incredibly insightful. In other words, it means that you can’t possibly find something if you don’t know what you’re looking for. I think many people go through life searching but not knowing where to look or what they’re actually looking for. Even if you’re not searching, there are plenty of things that if you did find, you’d be happy to find it. So the question is, “How does one find something that you don’t know what it is when you don’t know what to look for?”
The answer is Stumbling upon it unexpectedly.
How do you do that? Well, you get lucky. But every poker play knows that you make money by getting lucky but you can’t just wait to get lucky, have to put yourself in position to get lucky. You can do that in your life too. You can put yourself in a position to find something awesome. I’m hoping that someone stumbles upon this blog post and it changes their life forever. This post is for the people stumbling out there, hopefully this is the luck you need.
Freedom in today’s society is essentially one thing: Knowledge.
The best way to obtain knowledge is through reading books. Don’t be afraid of non-fiction. It’s OK if it’s boring. Once you start doing it, you’ll feel such a rush!
First, you need knowledge to earn money.
The money must be obtained in a location independent way and be able to give yourself your own hours, etc. My solution to his is poker, obviously. But Also, I’ve met people who do this through investing (forex, equities, and commodities), e-business, or a job they can work from their computer from any location. If you need some advice on any of these things, I can recommend someone who can help you with them. I know plenty of people who have attained freedom through these methods! Write me at Bryanzpope@Bryanzpope.com
You can start being a professional investor with little money. You can take leveraged bets that allow you to make a ton of money. So it’s possible for to win the money side of the equation that way. I think forex trading is a really fun way to do it but you can also do other forms of trading. If you want to try out forex trading, go to Oanda where you can do practice trading before making a real account.
If you want to do an e-business or get a location independent job, you have to get involved in the 4 hour work week. Read the book:
He gives the best advice ever for it. I’ve met many people who do this kind of work and it’s awesome!!
Once you have money, naturally, the next question becomes, “Now what?”
The way I stumbled upon the knowledge to travel is from couchsurfing.com. When I was living in Portland, Oregon I had no idea how all the travelers lived their lives. I knew of hitch hiking but I had no idea people actually did it. Especially after you hear all the bad stories of it, it makes you not want to do it. I heard about many things but I had no idea the depth of what was behind it. That’s where you have to stumble on it. That’s what couchsurfing does to you. I was lucky enough to decide to start hosting travelers by turning on my couch to accept people from the website. They are the ones who taught me how to travel! They are the ones who tell you the good stories and what you can get from each of these activities. Don’t trust someone about hitch hiking if they’ve never done it!
Here’s the great thing. Once you make a little change it can have big results! Have you guys ever read the tipping point?? If not, check it out.
Basicly, The book talks about how small changes make big differences. How it applies to this: Once you get stumbling on things through traveling, you find things faster and faster! As you get more hobbies, more friends, more interests you put yourself in more situations to get lucky to find even more interests! That is the most exciting thing of all.
It’s not that I’m smarter, better looking, or more clever that the average person. I just stumbled onto awesome things in my life!! Here is how it worked for me in a small little nutshell.
I was told that you can play poker for a living. I did research on it. I started playing poker. I played poker for years professionally then decided to move to vegas. In Vegas, I heard about the Pickup artist scene. I started to read a lot of books about it. Those books lead me to things like the four hour work week(which lead to this blog). It also lead me to couchsurfing but I decided to completely ignore it. I went to visit my brother in Portland, Oregon. I loved it there and decided to go there. It was a waste of time. Luckily it broke my spirit to the point that I was ready to grab onto something. I grabbed onto couchsurfing and decided to host people. After hosting 60 people in 2 months, I had enough inspiration to travel the entire world as a backpacker! From there, I found so many things in Europe and now in Asia. Everything from hitch hiking, dancing, various communities, cultures, languages, hostels and other things! These things all became important things to my life and I still have so much left to explore.
The best thing to always remember is this: Life is exciting and is meant to be lived to the fullest. Always seek high energy and always shoot for the stars!
LIVE THE DREAM!
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