Road to 30: I’m thinking about freedom, you should too.
Friday, November 6, 2020, was my birthday. It was a day of reflection about my latest obsession: freedom and ownership. It’s also about you, a third world native. What can you learn about these?
I’m excited about this year’s birthday for two reasons.
First, in all modesty, I’ve grown. I’m not the same person I was four years ago when I left university. I’ve matured. In character and emotional strength. In intellect and restraint. In love and compassion.
I’ve been fortunate to taste both the brighter and challenging side of life. My experience with both comfort and lack has helped me place life in a better perspective. It has deepened my resolve to seek freedom (both creative and financial) by all legal means.
Second, I’ve understood the concept and value of work (both entrepreneurial and 9-5 jobs). I’m also learning the real meaning of creativity and gratitude (If you’ve read Wallace.D. Wattles “The science of getting rich” you should understand this).
I learned all of these in 4 years, and as a lifelong student, I’m willing more than ever to pick up life’s lessons key to survival.
I’m ready to dedicate my vigour, the under-30 exuberance, to building systems that guarantee freedom.
I’m ready to think up ideas and execute them without the fear of failure or the unknown.
For the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about ownership and leverage in terms of business and wealth. If you’ve read my two last newsletters, I explained the concept of knowledge acquisition and forming alliances in the context of a third world native.
I argued that the only hope of survival for a third world native is to first, consider he’s an underdog and to survive, he must be willing to master a skill.
Second, he should seek leverage in forms of partnerships for a phenomenal impact and wealth acquisition.
We live in a country where information on freedom (both financial and creative) is limited.
Our education system only prepares us for one purpose: To get a job. We learned nothing about wealth creation and financial literacy.
The third world’s education structure, tied to rote learning, discourages creative freedom and life-sustaining knowledge on wealth.
My first contact with information on wealth and finances was through Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich.
The books changed my worldview about financial literacy and freedom. They galvanized me into thinking about building wealth with a generational view. The information wasn’t something I knew as a teenager. It was new and revealing.
It’s the same for you too.
Like every other third world native, your knowledge of freedom is limited. You equate job security to liberty, and that’s illusory.
What then is real freedom?
First, let me establish a fact: We all have the right to be free. God created us with the greatest of intentions — to be free. He blessed us with necessary tools we could use to negotiate our freedom: The soul, mind and body.
A human being is composed of the body, mind and soul. Every part has functions and needs. But it’s unfortunate how we only exercise our existence only from one religious perspective: The soul and it’s promises of paradise.
We deprive the body and mind of their own needs.
The body desires good food, clothes, shelter, recreation and rest from life’s toil.
The mind deserves intellectual recreation in books and opportunity to travel. It is also the storehouse of wealth and creativity.
The soul finds rest in God. It helps us express love to God and humans. Through the soul, we practise agape and romantic.
To experience freedom through the body, mind, and soul require plenty of money.
Poverty would not guarantee comfort for the body. It would limit your mind, the storehouse of riches and creativity.
The lack of money would also stifle your soul’s expression of love.
Poverty is a distraction. It limits the development of the body, mind and soul.
To achieve freedom, you must be willing to negotiate the expression of your body, mind and soul. And to attain this, you need plenty of money.
Liberty begets ownership. And before you start thinking about possession, you need to first, survive by thinking about ways of fund your entrepreneurial or career advancement efforts.
And today is the best day to start learning.
As part of my new plans for About 30, I want to dedicate my time every weekend to show you what I know about freedom, especially in the areas of raising money, making money, getting a job, building a career and creating a pathway for the future.
I also intend to work with friends who are good at these subjects.
To learn more about this, join a group strictly dedicated to achieving this opportunity. It’s called the ROAD to 30. Join here.
Let me know what you think about the topic of today in the comment section. Send me birthday wishes too (I will need them a lot). :)