Jess lanai

One of my best qualities is that I’m really fun. What makes me is fun is that I like fun. I’m primarily driven by fun.

Being driven by fun means I’m extremely forgiving. I don’t take things very seriously and I don’t much worry about results.

The problem with that is sometimes the results matter.

But people would be surprised how often the results don’t matter.

How few battles you really need to win and how inexpensive freedom can be.

I consider something expensive when it requires large amounts of my time, energy and focus.

Negative emotions are very expensive but they are also very useful if used properly.

People will have different views of what freedom is. But to me freedom is resources.

Anytime I start to feel like a victim or have to spend too much of my time, my energy or my emotion just to survive I know I don’t have freedom and therefore don’t have enough resources.

Freedom can be so inexpensive because gathering resources doesn’t often require spending that much time, energy or focus.

It often even involves spending less time, energy, focus and negative emotion.

Am I an expert on gathering resources?

No. But I am becoming an expert on not being a total dumbass and that does save a lot of time, energy, focus and negative emotion.

Results are usually very expensive.

They require focus, time, energy and usually a lot of the expensive negative emotions. Like stress, frustration and worry.

That’s why I love it when I get results for free.

There’s a lot of things in life that I didn’t even remotely try to accomplish it all just fell right at my feet.

Then there are the things that I spent everything I had on and I still never got the result I wanted.

Then there the really disappointing things that I spent all I had on, did get the result I wanted but the result ended up having no real value.

I made a bold claim that freedom can be very inexpensive because gaining resources usually requires less energy, less focus and less time.

I have real life proof of that claim.

Quitting cigarettes for example opened up a lot of resources for me.

More money (I spent over five hundred a month on cigarettes. Yes I know. That’s ridiculous) more time. (I am at least twenty times more productive since I quit smoking. I have so much extra time) less negative emotions. (by a lot)

Quitting smoking did not require time, energy or focus. It was the opposite, I had to stop using my time, energy and focus on it.

So many things are like that. So many of peoples resources are gained just by dropping focus on the wrong thing.

It’s actually crazy.

I could really go on and on about this but I’m tired now so instead I’m going to bed.