Self-Driven Saturday

Can you imagine being in the pursuit of nothing? To have no calling, to have no drive to achieve anything, to exist in and out of each day as someone who lets time pass with no purpose, simply riding the wave of life.

While I wholeheartedly believe that it’s important to have time like this. A time when you simply fall in love with your routines and your daily habits so much so that your brain can just enjoy your life for what it is and not what it could be. But, there’s something so important to be said about having a pursuit.

We all have different things that interest us. Your pursuit may be something creative like poetry or photography, something fiscal like investing or travel hacking, or something that involves physical strain like running or lifting weights.

And while I hope these posts help inspire you to pursue activities from all of these categories, it’s important that if not all, at least one.

Why? You know that feeling that you got when you studied really hard and got an A? When you trained really hard and won a game or got a starting spot? When you worked really hard and got a promotion? Those feelings are incredible, right?

But oftentimes those feelings are hidden behind a long period of lots of work that often… isn’t enjoyable but rather an obligation.

Well, choosing to pursue something in your life that you enjoy is so important for chasing those feelings and teaching your body to enjoy hard work. You’ll learn that even though going to the gym isn’t “easy,” but you enjoy it, and each day after you work out, you like the way that you look a little more. You’re continuously teaching yourself that learning to enjoy the hard work doesn’t take away from the results but rather makes them more effective.

This mental training is a critical facet of enjoying your life. As people often say, “Life sucks.” Which I personally believe is the most depressing, commonplace phrase that we use. instead what people often mean is that life is hard. Which it is.

Life always will be hard at some point. But life being hard doesn’t mean that it sucks. And, life doesn’t have to be hard forever.

Something that we are pursuing together is this financial freedom. And while this financial freedom doesn’t make life any easier, I promise that being financially free will remove a lot of stress from your life, giving you more freedom to be able to take on real difficulties.

While it won’t stop people from dying, it may make it so you can spend more time with those that you love. While it won’t take away from stress within your relationship, you’ll have more time and mental focus to be able to focus on the stressors.

But, like anything, this financial freedom is held hostage by hard work. But if you’re willing to fall in love with your work and pursue it with all your might for a few years, it may make the rest of your life just a little bit easier and more enjoyable.

Because the most valuable asset we have is time. And the best way to spend it is with those you love.

So please, start teaching yourself to pursue and to enjoy the pursuit. Because you must always work hard, but being able to choose what you work hard at, and how much time and effort you can put in, is an invaluable ability.

Have a great Saturday Night!

Peaks and Valleys