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Leviticus Mathew Leviticus@rizful.com 1 month ago
I don't needs to make 500k a year. I'm happy with much less, because I get to spend time with my wife and kids. I never miss soccer practice or games. I chaperone field trips. I get to pick em up from school and talk to them about their day 19/20 days a month so I can supplement their education and make sure they know boys are boys and girls are girls. I get to teach them to hate the state. I get to take off a couple weeks a year to take them on affordable road trips. I get lunch dates with my wife a couple times a month. But even this "lower" level of success took years of waking up at 1am to go catch a concrete pour at 2am so I could build my business during the day. I worked lots of 60 hour weeks so I can now work 25 hour weeks. Lower standards just require a different type of struggle, because struggling is unavoidable. Embrace the suck and make sure the struggle pays off. View quoted note →
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corndalorian corndalorian@primal.net 1 month ago
Living the dream 💯🫂 Not at all about the price tag on your lifestyle. All about acheiving what you set your mind to, and that takes sacrifices along the way.
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Sparrow Sparrow@primal.net 1 month ago
This is the way, and I’m proud of you for making it brother! 🙌🏼🧡 I have worked my whole life to build a work balance that allows me to be flexible, to spend random weekdays with my kids, and to work for myself, on my own time and at my own pace. Me and my wife were living in a tent when we got pregnant with our first child, no lie. I worked my body to damn near total exhaustion. I was building houses during the day and bartending in the evening, stacking cash, and always scraping for used cars and 2nd hand goods. I was depressed as hell, I was nearly suicidal. I was working my body to death, away from my family, and with no support, but I KNEW there was a way to be free. Over a decade later, a few manic episodes, and a LOT of effort to overcome my own mind, I can proudly say I feel like a KING. I still drive a beat up 2003 Jetta, and am working to pay the rent, but we’re RICH baby. Let’s go! I love where you’re at.
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