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$5,000 or Five Years: Which Would You Choose?
Your Money or Your Life
What if I told you to choose between $5,000 or five years of your life?
I genuinely hope your answer is that you’d rather have five more years of life!
If you don’t, there are more serious issues than this article can help you with.
This is what you are doing by working instead of building a business that can feed you.
You are giving up five good years, at least.
Years that your kids are young.
Years that you are young (ish).
Years that you could explore the world via travel.
Years that you could live life fully.
Unfortunately, there is this lie that a job is more stable than a business.
I look at the monthly layoff news and roll my eyes.
I stopped drinking that Kool-Aid long ago.
And if you are smart, you should too.
Build a real business, not an idea or an expensive hobby.
Some “entrepreneurs” spend all their time podcasting without monetization, showing up in free communities…
