🙏🙏 I’ve learned sadly that most people fall into the trap of working for money and never finding the time they thought it would afford. I call it the retirement mentality—waiting till later to do what you want today. Turns out it’s entirely possible to build income around time instead of hoping for it on the fringes. People confuse saving money with postponing dreams. Get your life back. Your life should consist of more than commuting, working, eating, surfing the Internet, sleeping and watching TV. Your life should be filled with purpose-driven experiences and projects that bring excitement, passion, energy, and authentic meaning and joy into your life. In the late 1800s, organizations in countries such as Germany and the United States began to offer pensions to meet the needs of the people with special strings attached. Companies and governments essentially said, “If you do what I want you to do today, I’ll give you more money tomorrow.” Now, more than a hundred years after that first wave of pensioners, we have several generations of people who have actually been incentivized to put off their dreams until age sixty-five or later. Kids in their twenties waited forty years to go on vacation. It’s still a thing today. With a promise in hand (from management or government or retirement planners) that life-after-work will be better, we crumple up our dreams like a paper ball and toss them out the window, hoping that the wind will blow those dreams back our way when we finally hit retirement. Don’t let that person be you. As Thomas S. Monson said, “This is our one and only chance at mortal life-here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by. As you plan for that illusive, nonexistent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find you in the journey now.” 🙏🙏 (at Sunset Beach, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBaMDb0gtiu/?igshid=hzqd48k75jfq