I'm going to be rich.
I am going to be rich.
When I say rich, I mean financially and anxiety free.
Free from the dependency of a typical ‘American’ 9-5 work life. Free from the anxiety that comes with this lifestyle that puts work first and living second.
First, why?
At 36 years 11 months old — now? Why has this become a focal point at this stage of my life?
Is it a midlife crisis?
Do I need a muse?
Am I not fulfilled?
Honestly, it’s because I’m exhausted. Counterintuitive, right?
I’m so tired of feeling the constant anxiety that is forced upon us as a culture. Buy things, go into debt, chain yourself to an employer and become a number, and hope that something doesn’t happen. In the meantime — you never make enough, never have enough time for yourself, and never have time for your loved ones.
It’s miserable. And I’m going to stop this in 2025.
You will help me.
Needless to say, l always have great ideas (to me). I’m an ideator. I need accountability. This is where this blog comes in — as well as a few other tools.
I plan to post here at least 1x weekly (if not more… hopefully more) where I will brain dump my activities, what I’m doing, and how I’m thinking about everything at that particular moment.
If I don’t? Call me out. Ask me what’s going on. Don’t hesitate to hold me accountable for my actions and lack-there-of.
I want to do this in public. I want to be vulnerable. I want to feel pressured to do something that will holistically change my life for the better… however small.
This blog will help with this. I need the accountability.
So how am I starting?
I made it a point — for the first time in my life — to begin 2025 by goal setting.
Transparently, I participated in Ali Abdaal’s ‘Productivity Spark 2025 Workshop’ the first week of January. This was after some self reflection about myself, where I’m at, and what I could change. My wife, Lisa, also wanted to do family goal setting as well as personal milestone reviews so that we could both hold each other accountable.
I was in.
So I just started. I first listened to the workshop, focusing on the content and the purpose for each. Then re-watched and used it as a guide to fully focus down on myself from an intentional perspective, giving myself the time and room I needed.
In the next post, I plan to outline how I’m going to approach 2025 — specifically the first quarter.
I’ll break this down into the annual ‘Theme’, followed by my ‘Quarterly Quests’. I’m going to keep this as simple as possible (as prescribed in the workshop) and will be looking at my Work Main Quest (Side Hustle/Solopreneur Journey) and my Life Main Quest.
I’ll have Side Quests that I will share, and will explain those later.
I’ll also become extremely vulnerable — especially in the early days — by giving you a peek at my current mindset where I will share my eulogy (morbid, right?), what I’m doing and/or the specific actions I’ve taken, and what resources I am using to either assist in the journey or keep me on-track.
This will not be perfect. This is not a guide that someone should follow (yet…?). This is simply me documenting the climb, while simultaneously asking you to hold my feet to the fire.