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All anyone really wants is to be happy. And statistics tell us that 80% of americans hate
their jobs. No wonder only 1 in 3 people report actually being happy.
The reason so many people are unhappy is because they're getting up every single day and doing
something they just don't care about all day long.
And the problem is that we put money and stuff at the center of our universe instead of TIME.
Now here's a better to look at it.
If you get rid of sleeping, Every second of our life falls into one of three categories
-- living, sustaining, and building. Think of them like circles in a Venn diagram.
Living is the best things in life. The things that you never want to stop doing. Maybe that's
your art, walking on the beach, working for a cause, playing with your kids or talking
about a subject that you are really devoted to.
Sustaining is keeping it going. Mowing the lawn, brushing your teeth, paying the bills,
getting your kids ready for school in the morning, and earning money.
Building is creating things that increase the amount or quality of time that you spend
Living in the future. So building relationships, creating passive income streams, writing a
book, or building a business.
The reason so many people are unhappy is that they spend most of their time Sustaining,
almost no time Building and the very small amount that's left over is spent Living
We need to make the Living circle WAY bigger! And here is where it gets really amazing.
Building and sustaining can overlap with living. Let me explain that.
When your life is created EXACTLY how you want it to be, building and sustaining ARE
Living. The things you do to BUILD are things you enjoy doing and make you happy.
Get someone else to do the rest.
To Quit Working means to move the thing you do to make money out of Sustaining and into
Living.
To be truely happy, you have to think of every thing you do like this. Then you become a
lifestyle fanatic.
That doesn't happen overnight. You get there by thinking about everything you do inside
these circles and then becoming obsessed with getting everything inside of Living and getting
rid of the rest.
Become a lifestyle fanatic. Because it's really just about being happy, which is all anyone
wants and what everyone deserves.