The Beginning

by Life Outside The Maze

I am in my 30s and while I am not rich, I never have to work for someone else again. How did I get here? What can I share about becoming financially independent? If I look at my life in broader terms than financial constraints what changes and what stays the same? Why not do right now the things I’ve always said I would do someday? What does it take to be happy? This blog is about me trying to answer those questions.

Along the way I am going to travel, do a bunch of crazy adventures, and talk a lot about ideas, money, business, the process that got me to here, and my progress from here. I am going to play music, invest, learn how to kickbox, and probably make a bunch of mistakes. I may even sometimes fail miserably for your entertainment and my amusement.

Over the past 2-3 years, I have been coming to a slow data backed realization that happiness is probably not a result but actually an endeavor, that money can prevent unhappiness but can not get you happiness, and that after a point, achievement is all relative so life may be more about the doing than the done.

I always thought that I would live a “different” life and while I have had some success, sometimes everything seems to gravitate back to a well worn path. I’ve prepared both financially and mentally. Now I am going to leave my job with no immediate plan of getting another one, try to build an awesome life outside of work, and train at being the most interesting man in the world. If you want to follow along, I promise that you will have fun, learn stuff that will change your life, and that I will be genuine.

I launched this blog with the first 10 posts in mind and they all kind of create a picture together so a good place to start is at post number one: How Did I Get Here?