“What we most fear is usually what we most need to do.”

It’s fear of unknown that prevents us from doing what we need to do in order to make things happen. Define the fear and envision the worst-case scenario in your mind. The next step is to accept this minuet possibility and then do it anyway. How many times have you thought about things that could go wrong and how many of those things have actually happened? I am confident in saying that a very small percentage of the outcomes we fear ever do become a reality.

Whether it be approaching a group of attractive women or quitting your job and buying a one-way ticket to Europe, if we don’t fear it, it’s probably not worth doing.

I find that most people I know aren’t entirely happy with their career path, but fear taking a new direction because they’re happy with their 40,000-$50,000 per year. They sacrifice at least one third of their lives doing something they dislike in order to pay for material things they don’t necessarily need.

The following is an excerpt from Timothy Ferriss’ – 4-Hour work week:

“Being financial rich and having the ability to live like a millionaire are fundamentally are two very different things. Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of ‘W’s you control in your life.

* What you do

* When you do it

* Where you do it

* With whom you do it

Using this as our criterion, the 80 hour per week $500,000 per year investment banker is less powerful than a man who works half of the hours for $40,000, but has complete freedom of when, where and how to live. The formers $500,000 maybe worth less than $40,000 and the latters $40,000 worth more than $500,000 when we run the numbers and look at the lifestyle output of their money.

Options and the ability to choose is real power.”

I refuse to agree with people that say “Well that’s life”.

I refuse to accept that doing something I dislike to make somebody else richer in exchange for things I don’t need and a ‘live for the weekend’ mindset is “just life”.

Turning your passion into something you can make money out of should be your goal.

- Gavin Madden