That nightmare where I couldn't pay the rent or my bills or had absolutely no idea where my next paycheck was coming from almost seems unreal these days.
In fact these days I pretty much do as I please! Gone are those days when I had to get up at the crack of dawn just to get ready for work that I totally loathed. That's right, my mornings these days are spent lazing in bed.
Yes life couldn't be any better especially when my office is a couple of rooms down the hall. it's my study!
My apologies! As usual I have started this narrative at the end of the story not at the beginning so permit me to correct that error by going back to the beginning. So let's go back to the beginning (well actually somewhere in the middle) so you can see how I ended up where I am today.
Anyway not so long ago I was having a barbecue at my place with my friends and neighbors when inevitably the conversation honed in on the dire situation of the economy of today. Both of us had friends and family who had suffered setbacks since the 2008 collpase of the economy.
Frank conceded that thankfully so far he and his family had scraped through faily unscathed but with somebody being fired every other day at his workplace, he could not be sure for how much longer his job was safe. Plain truth of the matter was that people were losing their jobs everyday!
After being lost in our private thoughts for a minute or two he joked that I must be a secret Wall Street trader because my world seemed as peachy as it had ever been since we became neighbours. The reason for that, I answered, was that inspite of the collapse of the economy my life had never been better. Truth be told I confessed, business had never been better! Talk about a look of utter disbelief. Without further ado I revealed to him that 3 years ago I was in such a bad place that I was literally in a spot where it was make money online or disappear.
A Short Gasp From Living On The Street!
A few years ago I worked 15 hours every single day just to make ends meet. Wackiest aspect of constantly working was that when it was time to sleep I had to down sleeping pills to tranquilize myself to sleep. Crazy huh! Compounding an already messed up situation I then had to down coffee after coffee ot keep my eyes barely open.
Sure...anyone in my sitaution would have worried about the health consequences of leading the lifestyle I was living but then again what could I do. There was no way I was going to jeopardize my family's existence.
Oh! Life was bad...real bad for me everywhere. I guess it would have been okay if we could have kept the nasty problems of life at bay outside the front door but unfortunately we couldn't. There was no denying it my marriage was marooned on the rocks! It seemed like the only thing that my wife and I did back then was constantly bicker about money!
Speeding My Way To The Cemetery!
It's strange to think baout it now, how a serious medical condition ended up saving my life. I shuddder to think that if I hadn't been diagnosed with severe hypertension I would still be leading that futile ratrace that my life had become.
At first I thought the doctor was joking when he said that I had serious hypertension. But then it began to dawn on me that this was no joke, that's when the shock belly-punched me! I just couldn't believe it...this was a mistake, there had to be another explanation.
I was in good shape... Perhaps if I smoked, drank heavily, was overweight or had a family history of hypertension then and only then would I reluctatnt concede that I was suffering from hypertension. But I suffered from none of those hallmarks! I drank rarely and there was no history of the disease in my family. It was impossible! How could I have hypertension? I was barely 30 years old!
For along time I was angry at the doctor who had diagnosed me. That's right after a battery of tests I now accepetd that I had hypertension but I still felt cheated. I didn't lead the polluted lifestyle like binge drinking and smoking that commonly ended in hypertension.
When all is said and done it was worry that was my undoing. The constant stress and fretting...sure it may have been invisible but like it as not its damage was very real and very visible. It occurred to me that if I wanted to see my kids grow up then I'd have to change the way I was liviing.
And that's when I realized I couldn't continue living the way I was. In fact it was at that point it dawned on me that what I had been doing was--Existing Not Living!
Which brings me to a question I have been dying to ask you because the fact that you are reading this lends me to believe your situation is not unlike mine once was. Anyway this is the question:
Do You Know What You Would Do If You Had Financial Freedom?
Silly of me to ask--of course you do!
I bet you would do what anybody else in the world would do! You would:
Live The Life That You Always Wanted!
Do you know the difference between people who really enjoy life and those who are simply passing through?
The people who truly enjoy life are the ones who are doing exactly what they want to be doing. Such people are easy to spot--they always look happy!
As for the others, the one's who simply pass through life as if it was a series of duties like paying bills and taxes--life to them is just an existence that has little room or time for happiness! They are simply too busy trying to make ends meet they have no time to really appreciate life.
And after you've existed that way for some time any other kind of lifestyle becomes unimaginable! I should know; after all that was me not too long ago!
Backed Up Against A Hard Spot My Only Option Was To Make Money Online!
I realized I had to make drastic changes to my life fast otherwise sooner than later I wouldn't even have one. My health was on the blink and my marriage wasn't doing any better either! I needed money and I needed it yesterday!
But what was I going to do? I couldn't go back to school because I evidently couldn't afford it otherwise I wouldn't be in the crummy situation that I found myself in.
I couldn't take another job because there simply wasn't enough time in a single day and besides my body couldn't handle it either. No! There had to be another way; some way that had minimal startup costs yet enabled me to make more money in a relatively short period of time.
So I turned to the internet did some research and learned how to make money online. The rest, as the saying goes, is history!
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