In my previous post The Cost of Doing Business: the big question I asked this mind blowingly profound question:
Why do you go to work?
The simple answer that most people will honestly give is:
Put a roof over my head and food on my table!
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For those that love what they do for their J - O - B, this post probably won't resonate with you.
You are content with what you are doing and find satisfaction in it.
Good for you.
The only question I have for those in this position is:
What's the cost?
The real cost?
The time you spent on your J-O-B, both in training/education and on the clock is time spent that you can't get back.
Time is a finite resource.
Either you are making the most of it, or you are wasting it.
Either you are spending it on people and things that matter most to you or you are squandering it on the lesser.
The Lesser is not worthy of your time!
For those of you who have counted the costs and realize that your time is being squandered there is a simple solution:
Be BLUER.
Build Legacies Utilizing Earth's Resources.
That's my coined acronym. I thought it was clever and captured what I wanted my life purpose to be about.
It's really all about modern homesteading. Rather Home-IN-Steading, as I like to call it.
Really, there is nothing "modern" about it. Since the dawn of time we humans have been spending our days, surrounded by family and friends, with our hands in the soil and our hearts towards home.
The biggest reasons most people "go to work" are for the very things that home-IN-steading provides.
- You are using the material from your land to put a roof over your head (hopefully debt free)
and
- you are producing your own food to put on the table.
Most importantly, home-IN-steading allows you to spend your precious time with the ones you care most about.
It is true, home-IN-steading is a full time, pretty much all consuming, job.
At times, doing other things that you love to do (such as travel, sports, etc.) must take a back seat to the care of the plants and animals that are dependent on you. The trade offs (opportunity costs), however, are priceless.
Besides, if you have a great family and some really great friends, taking a break from your home-IN-steading is rather easy. There is something to be said for living in community with other like-minded people, but that is another post for another time.
The truth be told, all of life is about counting the costs and choosing the paths that provide the greatest ROI on the things that matter most to you. Although home-IN-steading can at times be all consuming, it provides the greatest needs of humanity in an environment that fosters what matters most to me:
faith, family, food, and fun!
Thanks for reading!
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all you have is your time.
anyone who wastes your time is stealing something from you that you can never replace.
And it's tragic when you realize that the person wasting your time is you.
nope..that's exactly WRONG.
my time....is MINE.
I am the only one who can properly decide if I'm wasting it or not.
Certainly not YOU.
So true! I was just thinking about how much of my time I've wasted. I spent a long time kicking myself for it. Now I'm just determined to not waste any more!
My husband works hard all week. Hard. He's a carpenter and constructuon superintendant. Now, he works for an amazing company, but it's difficult to watch him work all week, so hard, and brings home a fraction, a tiny fraction, of what his company makes from his work. And when he gets home with this money we pay the electric bill, water bill, gas bill, car payment, insurance and phone. We buy food and necessities for us and our animals. All of this so he can have lights and hot water to shower, a warm place to sleep, clean cloths and dinner so he can wake up and repeat it all over again next week. It begina to feel like he works to make money to prepare himself to work.
I get so frustrated sometimes, that noone ever told us there was another way. We had to figure it out for ourselves, after we were already waist deep in this rat race.
But, praise God, we DID figure it out and we are sooo close to bustin' out! 😀
If he thinks he's being underpaid.
find another company to work for.
OR
start his own company.
It's not really even a matter of being underpaid. And he loves his job. He's good at what he does and loves the guys he works with. It just feels like he's working to pay other people for what we could be doing for ourselves.
Really, it bothers me more than it bothers him. But we're both grateful that he has a good job when so many we know can't find work, for his ability to do something that he enjoys to provide for our family while I homeschooled our kids, and for the beautiful future on our own homestead!
homeschooling is WONDERFUL.
it's a TWO-FER.
in order to teach your kids.
you have to learn it first.
it's a win-win.
I couldn't agree more!