Money is a funny concept. Imagine a world where your needs are met and you no longer need to chase for ever more money. But before you can do this, you must reach a point of accepting that you have enough. This is in contrast to most who always strive to have more.
How’s it going everybody this is pete the bush what is money why do we spend our whole life trying to obtain as much of it as we can maybe it’s because it buys us goods and services status a home to live in power you see as long as you’re part of society you still need to earn some amount of money in order to trade for things generated by it everybody needs money
But when you live a simple life shun materialism and minimize your expenses you tend to spend very little very little so little in fact that when you work for more of it it seems like a waste of time how little are we talking about here i’m talking about $50 a day little that’s right i’ve minimized my cash outflow to about $50 every day in order to meet my financial
Obligations this includes housing hoa home repairs utilities everything that you can think of that cost me money so when you think about this $50 that’s about 18,000 every single year one of the main reasons i was able to do this is because i aggressively paid down my mortgage and eventually i was able to pay off my house there are some of the cost-saving stuff
That i do don’t buy cable netflix most subscriptions for that matter i trim insurance costs landlines and i even use a free cell phone i eat very simple and avoid buying things just to show off i use a bidet fix my own car turned down the water heater and i found out that based on your perspective you can even not use your central heater you can see i’m wearing a
Little bit thicker than normal people would okay so you think $50.00 is all i need right it gets better i rake in tax free money from municipal bonds dividends as well as interest from savings accounts i continually sell my old stuff on ebay i new credit card churning savings account churning on top of this i have this youtube channel that brings in earnings all
Of these income sources combined meets my basic needs and also allows me for a little bit of extra savings this is the magic point because i purposely reduce my expenses to such a low level that my passive income any kind of income sources i try to earn becomes very easy to meet those requirements after all when you don’t need more you don’t need to earn more you
Might say well beat the bush you’re only able to do this because you’re single it’s true if you have kids you’re gonna have increased expenses and it’s gonna make it that much harder to meet your financial obligations you just need more passive income in order to meet your expenses yes it’s going to be harder so what happened here i quit my job and i spend many days
In solitude i find that most my co-workers well they are working and for me i just spend many days at home sometimes a week or two will pass by before i see anyone it’s interesting because i start to realize that anyone that has a full-time job they have very very little time during the weekday to just go hang out this got me thinking it is kind of lonely being by
Yourself working by yourself all alone at home people ask me aren’t you lonely the thing is i don’t fear being alone i feel like out of this solitude i’m at the cusp of discovering something new maybe about myself maybe about new things i discover about the world the thing is if you do not spend all your time making money in order to chase materialism you free up a
Lot of time for something else but what is that something else i don’t need to buy a fancy car no fancy jeans i don’t need to go to michelin star rated restaurants you might start to think well beat the bush if you don’t indulge yourself what do you have to live for what i realize is that most of these indulgences that people like to show off on social media either
Harms your body or in the end when you think of the grand scheme of things it does not matter at all i guess that’s why you don’t see me tripping over myself to try to obtain as many subscribers as possible it is true the more subscribers that you have the more money that you’re gonna get the more success the more fame that you’re gonna get you realize i don’t pull
Crazy stunts i endanger my health for the sake of making youtube videos i make less videos these days rather than more and in addition you see me having a very hard time releasing finance only related videos because this is not true to myself all bow youtube algorithms would really like that so what do you do when you don’t have to work you don’t have to spend two
Hours a day on a daily commute on you don’t have to hustle to make ever more money what do you do what do i do you start to think how small and insignificant you are in the grand scheme of things how tiny you are on the surface of the earth and how in a hundred two hundred years anything that you ever do will probably be forgotten and no one would ever remember
Not because of all this should you do something that matters what does matter then she won’t try to advance human civilization or maybe save the earth from self-destruction how about invent capitalism 2.0 or maybe alter in some way so that it does not eventually self implode is it too lofty a goal for one person too ambitious or too presumptuous who think that
You can get changed so large is even wanting to make a change thinking too highly of yourself why am i making this video i don’t know perhaps it’s because i think people on this earth is kind of like cells in your body each one of us nowadays is just kind of like a cell in our body interconnected by the internet we are one large organism called the earth but each
One of us may think that we’re individuals but we’re interconnected with this synthetic network sometimes some people have certain ideas and these ideas travel through the internet and activate other people on the other side of the globe it’s kind of like our brain sending signals through our central nervous system to some muscle cells in order to contract them
We can move certain muscle cells but not our skin cells this is kind of like how some people when they communicate through the internet they will reach some people but not others you see if you look down at the earth from another star we people of this earth looks like just one big organism you
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Are You Working too Hard By BeatTheBush
