IWWIWWWIWI: I Want What I Want When and Where I Want It.
Being from the suburbs, I’d always equated comfort with ennui, and possessions with materialism, but I was beginning to learn that this wasn’t necessarily the case. Living a comfortable life can allow you the psychic space needed to focus on other, often bigger, things, and when you treat your possessions as emblems of your hard work, they inherit a meaning that transcends the objects themselves.
I once believed that participating in a capitalist economy would be the death of me, but now realize that agonizing over the political implications of every move I make isn’t exactly living.
Great entrepreneurs are like Indiana Jones. They take leaps before seeing the bridge because they know that if they don’t, someone else will get that holy grail. That holy grail is yours for the taking.
Don’t be scared. We’re all going to die, it’s just a question of when and how – so be brave.
I believed in what I was doing, and fortunately other people believed in it as well. I cared as much about the process as I did about the results. No decision was too small.
My adopted political ideals had let me approach money with an elevated level of distaste. I saw it as a materialistic pursuit for materialistic people, but what I have realized over time is that in many ways, money spells freedom.
Psychologists now believe that social media is a really valuable tool for introverts, because it allows them to communicate and even network on their own terms.
It takes a lot of hard work to ‘get there,’ and once you get there it takes even more hard work to stay there.
When you take care of the little things, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find out that the big things often happen much more easily.
Sell things for more than you pay for them, and save more than you spend.
It’s just recognizing the fact that we control our thoughts and our thoughts control our lives.
At age four I was a camera. I took pictures with my eyes. I framed my photo within my vision and blinked my eyes to snap the shutter of my memory. Since that time, I’ve been impersonating inanimate objects at every opportunity.
I like being myself. Myself and nasty. – Aldous Huxley.
All of that flailing about, trying new things and finding out that I liked some of them and hated others, ended up amalgamating into something very real and very meaningful, and in the end, made me capable of providing a life for myself.
A cover letter can connect the dots between where you’ve been, where you are, and where you’re trying to go.
Owing your style sometimes takes effort, and it’s okay to expend effort on how you look.
When you begin with the finish line in mind, you miss all the fun stuff along the way. The better approach is to tweak and grow, tweak and grow.
You can be entrepreneurial without being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial people are passionate about what they do, comfortable with taking risks, and quick at moving on from failures.
I wanted to live outside the capitalist structure, to live free and travel free, and to exist outside a nine-to-five-life-girl’s body. I wanted to live spontaneously and to find myself in wild places, with wild people, and have wild times. Let me remind you, I was naive enough to believe this was how I could live my life indefinitely.