Yes, you’ve been lied to.
No matter who you are or where you were born, many “rules” and expectations are fully ingrained into your life experience. These “rules” and expectations dictate everything in your life. For example,
- How to become successful and what success looks like
- How to behave in social environments
- How to raise your children
- Who your God is
- Who your authority figures are
- What’s valuable and what isn’t
- much, much more….
For many of us, the great liberation comes when we realize these “rules” and expectations simply do not apply to us. Others can choose to stay asleep, but we see the light and understand that our life is our own to do with as we please. Once we cross this bridge, a whole world of opportunity opens up for us. From there we can go on to craft the life we want as FREE individuals.
Many are familiar with the concept of Lifestyle Design from Tim Ferriss’ popular book The Four Hour Work Week. We, and many like us, have been practicing Lifestyle Design long before Tim’s book hit the market. Tim helped to bring the concept mainstream.
Lifestyle Design is about ignoring the status quo in all things. Question your assumptions and focus your energies toward the things that get you what you want. Here’s an excerpt from The Four Hour Work Week:
Life doesn’t have to be so damn hard. It really doesn’t. Most people, my past self included, have spent too much time convincing themselves that life has to be hard, a resignation to 9-to-5 drudgery in exchange for (sometimes) relaxing weekends and the occasional keep-it-short-or-get-fired vacation.
People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy. Ski chalets, butlers, and exotic travel often enter the picture. Perhaps rubbing cocoa butter on your belly in a hammock while you listen to waves rhythmically lapping against the deck of your thatched-roof bungalow? Sounds nice.
$1,000,000 in the bank isn’t the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows. The question is then, How can one achieve the millionaire lifestyle of complete freedom without first having $1,000,000?
Freedom is what it’s all about and freedom begins when you throw off the shackles of “rules” and expectations. What “rules” are keeping you from doing what you truly want to do today? What if that “rule” didn’t apply to you?
