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I’m Chasing a ‘Buy a Farm and Build a Sustainable Business’ Kind of Rich
Fancy cars, big houses and flash things are boring
There is nothing wrong with chasing money. I get it. Money is a vessel to a new life. It’s a vehicle to getting where you want to, to a life that you want. But sometimes we chase money mindlessly. We get as far as thinking ‘I need to be rich’ and that’s about it. Because we think that somehow money will fix all our problems.
When I see people buying more and more material things I always wonder who that’s stuff is for. I don’t care for $400 jeans, $500 trainers or a $20,000 car. My car has 107,000 miles on the clock, I buy clothes once a year and I have 4 pairs of trainers. Still too many.
My aim is to accumulate less, not more.
Wealth is a matter of opinion. To me wealth is freedom, it’s doing what you want every day and getting paid to do so. It’s spending your time on this earth in the way you desire. It’s not being under someone else’s thumb, it’s not nodding your head because it’s the right thing to do and it’s not buying dumb stuff to impress people you don’t like. It’s living unapologetically by your rules and your rules alone. It’s being true to what fulfils you.
