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amazing society?</p><p id="3310">You need to know a thing: a world where your effort is indifferent, because the result is always positive, is a world where you are fed with everything you need, is a world where you are just a mix of chemical reactions that is slowly dying without acknowledging the incredibleness of life.</p><p id="6037">It’s like thinking you can be successful once you read an article about success.</p><h1 id="a9f7">World-Star</h1><p id="45cf">False is the moment where you accept this things to be helpful. False is the request you make to this world.</p><p id="f63c" type="7">I am in need of great help! Can somebody help me?</p><p id="29fc">This mindset is so confusing. You think you are getting what you need because you’re needy and need help. But let’s shift our perspectives: what if you are not in need of anything?</p><p id="f614" type="7">What if we are just what we need now?</p><p id="004d">Life is an endless and mysterious path: you don’t really know where you’re going, you don’t really know anything at all. It’s crazy how much time we waste thinking we are what we think we are.</p><p id="f0a8">It’s funny: we spend a lot of time labelling and tried to be labeled in a way that is perfect for us. We want to be sure we can trust people won’t need lot of effort every day to recognize us in our chosen role.</p><p id="d84c">But what happens for most of us? We tend to make an effort in showing ourselves something we aren’t. We spend our life trying to impress people, showing them how great is our life. We want the fame to give us what we can’t have: friends, popularity, self-esteem.</p><p id="caf3">We want something to believe: to believe that if we behave we will be rewarded, to believe if we say the truth we are going to be free from doubt, to believe that people will love us if we love them.</p><p id="fbc4" type="7">But what we do know from our experiences?</p><p id="a568">People hates when they don’t know you: make yourself known as soon as possible. Be that person that make the world understand that bad things happen to anyone: no one is free from pain. No one.</p><p id="3a53"><b>What makes you think people are living better just because of a temporary smile? Just for a temporary second of bliss?</b></p><p id="ff6e">We look at that manager, with that fancy car and the smile of who “owns the world”, we think “I’d like to live like him, making sales, doing meetings, earning cash”: we don’t want to go deeper in his life, in his struggles, in the days where the world seems to knock him down.</p><p id="c0ed">We don’t see that, or perhaps we don’t want that story. We live in a constant needy life: we need to be something, we need that thing because people that earn like this buy it, we need, we need, we need.</p><p id="85ad">Do we really know what we need? We think to be okay is to follow the trend, to buy that iPhone, to work for the money that will buy us the amazing life we want. There’s no real need: it’s just an illusion.</p><p id="5ad9">When we breath, we are alive, we are capable of doing things. When we have what is necessary for living, everything extra is pure pleasure, but if you think you cannot live without extras, you should definitely reconsider your life.</p><h1 id="340e">Money

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-Machine</h1><p id="386f">As we have seen during the years, the standard of living is changed. If 50 years ago people just needed a roof, food and a job to make a decent living, now the standard is different.</p><p id="4a48"><b>Look around you: do people really need everything they have? Have you ever heard people blame their life even when they had everything? Do you know why this happens?</b></p><p id="535d">Material abundance is dangerous for our life: we loose focus on things, we loose the capacity of giving value to things. It’s dangerous because you cannot handle everything at once, so what do you do? You put things aside, in boxes, in garages, you hide them. And then you buy new, and repeat the same process, over and over again.</p><p id="c08a"><b>How much money would people save, if all those things we hide from our sight would be used until they become unusable?</b></p><p id="839a">Thousands and thousands every year. Using everything until it’s no longer usable is a great deal: you are extracting all the value from the things you buy, and you will notice you buy cheaper than you think. Using a long-term mentality you could be spending a lot in the present, but the effect of this is that you aren’t spending that much anymore for years.</p><p id="9f7d">In fact, you are buying high-quality goods that will be unusable in 5 to 10 years. Here’s some examples:</p><ul><li>The 600 suit will last at least 5 years (at least) if correctly taken care of, which means it’s costing you 120/per year</li><li>The 200 used iPhone will last 2 to 4 years, with a yearly cost of 50</li></ul><p id="4d96">As you can see, with a long-term mentality you actually saving yourself a great deal of money. Let’s see the results of this method:</p><ul><li>5 hoodies + 5 trousers + 3 pair of shoes + 5 shirts = 500 every year</li><li>New iPhone = 600 every year</li></ul><p id="b2b4">The numbers speak even better comparing them in terms of decades:</p><ul><li>Suit (120/year) vs New Wardrobe (500/year) x 10 years = 1200 vs 5000</li><li>Used iPhone (50/year) vs New iPhone (600/year) = 500 vs 6000</li></ul><p id="9aa5">Your pocket suffers a lot as you can see: material abundance, an aggressive marketing culture and a fast growing technology are killing the possibility of expanding your happiness if you’re not aware of the money that every year you are throwing for stuff that is just slightly better than the one before.</p><p id="4171">Make your calculations based on what you usually purchase every year, and you will see a potential for you to be happier in the future.</p><h1 id="647f">The End</h1><p id="f349">We discussed a world where happiness is endless, and we dived into the reality of success, finishing with an insight about money and how we can easily label our “old” purchases as trash. But what’s the point in it?</p><p id="284e"><b>Live according to your necessity. Live according to your feelings. Feel and act accordingly. Trust your gut. Be free. Be independent. Be awesome.</b></p><p id="9c8b">The end of all your frustrations will come once you understand only one thing: there’s nothing better than time. Own it, and be greedy of your time.</p><p id="ce42">Your time is now, make something valuable.</p></article></body>

The Only One Thing You Need to Know Before You Decide To Be Successful

But what we do know from our experiences?

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You always wonder how to become successful, looking for endless tips and advice to find the perfect action to get there, where your goals are accomplished, money is raining and your life is at its best.

You are doing a great job in optimizing your actions, improving your focus and learning more every day. This is the life you always wanted to live: you are in charge of yourself and you are the protagonist of a great story.

This is life as it should be. There’s nothing that can stop you from reaching success, or maybe it’s just what self-help articles said to you.

The main reason you are here is to know something incredible and useful, and you will learn more than you will expect. What I ask you is patience, what I offer is a deep consideration of your actions. It’s up to you now: if you don’t feel like to challenge yourself, then I cannot help you.

If you made it until here, be ready: we are going to dive into the unknown. Ready?

Utopia

Life should be fun and meaningful. This is what we all want. The meaning of “fun and meaningful” can be different, but the core of the message is simple: nobody wants to suffer, everybody wants to enjoy the time he has in this life.

Would you like a life where the only possible emotion is happiness and fulfillment? You’ll probably say yes in an emotional sense, but logically the question arises something deep: would be happiness defined as such in a world where it is the only way of living?

You would not understand what is pain, anger, fear or doubt: happiness would be the regulator of your entire being. You would be all dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin: everyone is sharing a great moment and everyone is unconsciously transmitting happiness to each other. Life would be an endless loop of perpetual happiness.

But let me ask you a question: would it be fair to have a world where happiness is the fundament of society? Where you have always what you need and do not need to “worry” (because worry doesn’t exist) about scarcity? Where everyone can sense the same feeling of greatness?

This perpetual happiness would lead to a moment of great abundance to everyone, and permit the people to make their day accordingly to their wills.

Imagine you can wake up, making everything you always wanted, and be sure you’re not wasting your time or losing money because of it: everything you do is meaningful and perfect.

Would you love this world? Would you like to be one of the ever-smiling individual of this amazing society?

You need to know a thing: a world where your effort is indifferent, because the result is always positive, is a world where you are fed with everything you need, is a world where you are just a mix of chemical reactions that is slowly dying without acknowledging the incredibleness of life.

It’s like thinking you can be successful once you read an article about success.

World-Star

False is the moment where you accept this things to be helpful. False is the request you make to this world.

I am in need of great help! Can somebody help me?

This mindset is so confusing. You think you are getting what you need because you’re needy and need help. But let’s shift our perspectives: what if you are not in need of anything?

What if we are just what we need now?

Life is an endless and mysterious path: you don’t really know where you’re going, you don’t really know anything at all. It’s crazy how much time we waste thinking we are what we think we are.

It’s funny: we spend a lot of time labelling and tried to be labeled in a way that is perfect for us. We want to be sure we can trust people won’t need lot of effort every day to recognize us in our chosen role.

But what happens for most of us? We tend to make an effort in showing ourselves something we aren’t. We spend our life trying to impress people, showing them how great is our life. We want the fame to give us what we can’t have: friends, popularity, self-esteem.

We want something to believe: to believe that if we behave we will be rewarded, to believe if we say the truth we are going to be free from doubt, to believe that people will love us if we love them.

But what we do know from our experiences?

People hates when they don’t know you: make yourself known as soon as possible. Be that person that make the world understand that bad things happen to anyone: no one is free from pain. No one.

What makes you think people are living better just because of a temporary smile? Just for a temporary second of bliss?

We look at that manager, with that fancy car and the smile of who “owns the world”, we think “I’d like to live like him, making sales, doing meetings, earning cash”: we don’t want to go deeper in his life, in his struggles, in the days where the world seems to knock him down.

We don’t see that, or perhaps we don’t want that story. We live in a constant needy life: we need to be something, we need that thing because people that earn like this buy it, we need, we need, we need.

Do we really know what we need? We think to be okay is to follow the trend, to buy that iPhone, to work for the money that will buy us the amazing life we want. There’s no real need: it’s just an illusion.

When we breath, we are alive, we are capable of doing things. When we have what is necessary for living, everything extra is pure pleasure, but if you think you cannot live without extras, you should definitely reconsider your life.

Money-Machine

As we have seen during the years, the standard of living is changed. If 50 years ago people just needed a roof, food and a job to make a decent living, now the standard is different.

Look around you: do people really need everything they have? Have you ever heard people blame their life even when they had everything? Do you know why this happens?

Material abundance is dangerous for our life: we loose focus on things, we loose the capacity of giving value to things. It’s dangerous because you cannot handle everything at once, so what do you do? You put things aside, in boxes, in garages, you hide them. And then you buy new, and repeat the same process, over and over again.

How much money would people save, if all those things we hide from our sight would be used until they become unusable?

Thousands and thousands every year. Using everything until it’s no longer usable is a great deal: you are extracting all the value from the things you buy, and you will notice you buy cheaper than you think. Using a long-term mentality you could be spending a lot in the present, but the effect of this is that you aren’t spending that much anymore for years.

In fact, you are buying high-quality goods that will be unusable in 5 to 10 years. Here’s some examples:

  • The 600$ suit will last at least 5 years (at least) if correctly taken care of, which means it’s costing you 120$/per year
  • The 200$ used iPhone will last 2 to 4 years, with a yearly cost of 50$

As you can see, with a long-term mentality you actually saving yourself a great deal of money. Let’s see the results of this method:

  • 5 hoodies + 5 trousers + 3 pair of shoes + 5 shirts = 500 $ every year
  • New iPhone = 600$ every year

The numbers speak even better comparing them in terms of decades:

  • Suit (120$/year) vs New Wardrobe (500$/year) x 10 years = 1200$ vs 5000$
  • Used iPhone (50$/year) vs New iPhone (600$/year) = 500$ vs 6000$

Your pocket suffers a lot as you can see: material abundance, an aggressive marketing culture and a fast growing technology are killing the possibility of expanding your happiness if you’re not aware of the money that every year you are throwing for stuff that is just slightly better than the one before.

Make your calculations based on what you usually purchase every year, and you will see a potential for you to be happier in the future.

The End

We discussed a world where happiness is endless, and we dived into the reality of success, finishing with an insight about money and how we can easily label our “old” purchases as trash. But what’s the point in it?

Live according to your necessity. Live according to your feelings. Feel and act accordingly. Trust your gut. Be free. Be independent. Be awesome.

The end of all your frustrations will come once you understand only one thing: there’s nothing better than time. Own it, and be greedy of your time.

Your time is now, make something valuable.

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