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Hey @steembusiness.

Let me start this reply by saying that I came upon your post while casually browsing my steemit feed and when I read it, I got up, put the coffee on and started up the laptop as I wanted to reply at length and that's not easily done on a phone.

I applaud you for your aspirations. I share them and indeed I've managed to work from home remotely for a number of years in a technical profession. It's a zero commute and generally enjoyable undertaking and I found that much more time could be focused around the home. Feel like a stretch from your desk for 10 minutes? Rather than just hanging out in an office kitchen, you could water the plants out the window for example. Very efficient and productive.

I did want to say however that, like you, I've seen those gone before and wanted to model my life on aspects of theirs. The issue is however that success or achievement is not only a function of our own effort or skill. I call this the Schwarzenegger effect. Reading his autobiography blew me away. If ever there was a guy in the right place at the right time with the right people offering him the right support, it's him. The same guy born at a different time would have a radically different life.

Times are harder now, the low hanging fruit has been picked. Many of us, despite great efforts to the contrary, will by necessary compliance with the world around us, be forced to live that inefficient 9-5 that you describe. The point is to do what you can to make your life as close to what you want it to be and don't beat yourself up if you never quite get there. "There" is subjective and a function of the prevailing economic and social conditions. 

My best wishes to you in your endeavours and I look forward to hearing your tips on what you learn along the way!

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Very insightful post.

It shows a great level of maturity.

The ability to step back and be both a participant AND an observer in one's life takes quite a few years of living, introspection and retrospection.

Sadly, for many, this personal wisdom is never discovered.

I truly hope you can find a new passion (or rediscover an old one) - some activity similar to what you did as a child for hours because it was so fun, something that get's you so excited that you lose all track of time, something  you would do for free BUT can also ethically make a living at it.

Notice I did not say get rich.

That does not equate to happiness. Having a lot of money does not mean you will be happy. How many unhappy rich people do you know of?

But, here's another question that hints towards an illusive notion, a seemingly paradoxical phenomena:

Have you noticed how much easier it is to save money when you're happy? Conversely, don't we all become spendthrifts - irrational about what we buy - when we desperately want to simply escape, forget about our troubles and "make those bad things go away"?

Which leads me to the concept of "wealth".

It is not how much you earn that makes you wealthy, but how much you can save.

Now, I am not advocating life as a penny-pincher; or life as a hermit.

We have all heard of the sad stories of lonely old people  whom everyone believed to be poor while these elderly persons were alive - eating cat food and living in a dump. 

Then upon their death, authorities and relatives find thousands of dollars stuffed into their mattresses and hidden under their ratty, soon-to-be-fossilized furniture.

These types have a serious money neurosis; a deep-seated, maladaptive relationship with money. And the causes of this are too many to discuss in this comment/reply (e.g., early life trauma like war or a macroeconomic catastrophe, abusive parents that equated money with love, sudden poverty from affluence, affluence from generational poverty, etc.).

These miserable people will hoard money; even though they have plenty. They fear it. They fear to spend it; even to the detriment of their own health and mental well-being. The embody the "scarcity mentality".

I hope you find your balance - a balance that inevitably will lead to the freedom you seek, my friend.

And please ponder this:

"Most people focus on getting rich rather than becoming wealthy." Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller - a world-renowned architect, futurist, inventor, and visionary, also measured wealth in time. 

He defines wealth as: A person's ability to survive X number of days forward.

What does this mean?

It is simple.

You can either make more money or spend less - Live within your means, or get more "means".

And I suspect that you're like most of us who've traveled your path:

"You will find that when you are doing what makes you truly happy, time will fly, wealth increases; while the cost of living magically decreases."

Imagine that?

Namaste (my preferred definition: "I recognize the divine in you, my friend"),

JaiChai

P.S.

I plan on including this comment/reply and a link to your article in my next post. I'll send you a link to that post when it's finished.

Charge on, my Brother.

This is my true goal on steemit now. While I dont think it will ever be my full time job I hope to get to a point where it will allow me to transition to working for myself.

@steembusiness,

As promised, here it is:

https://steemit.com/life/@jaichai/ijch-in-response-to-steembusiness-personal-freedom-and-wealth

Namaste,

JaiChai