I’ve been in the Los Cabos area of Mexico for over a week now, and a though crossed my mind as I was swimming in the ocean near where I’m staying.
I need to basically either be enjoying myself, trying new things, and taking advantage of everything my area has to offer, OR working as hard as I can to maximize my income at all times.
It doesn’t mean I have to pick one forever, just that I need to completely eliminate everything that’s not one of those two things.
Why?
This was the first time in 4 or 5 days that I actually swam in the ocean, despite it being extremely close. I’ve barely taken advantage of this place I’m in. Mostly because I’ve been working.
But I’ve wasted a lot of time, too.
When I’m working, I need to be working hard. And I need to constantly focus on how I can maximize the financial return for my time.
The reason for that is because I want to retire as soon as possible. The faster I can increase my net worth, the sooner I can retire and then it will be much easier to take advantage of everything around me.
And more to the point of this blog post: I need to eliminate things that are just a waste of time or that are just going through the motions.
I can’t be wasting time on things that aren’t important, and I can’t get complacent in my business and simply continue with the status quo.
I need to constantly be growing and expanding. I don’t want to work more hours, but I want to get way more out of the hours I do put in.
My goal is to retire by 50 but I would greatly prefer to do it much earlier, or at least be able to reduce my hours or increase flexibility before that.
Certainly I have improved in everything I’ve described here over the last several years and certainly the last decade. But I can’t get complacent with that. I need to continue improving, ideally at a more rapid pace.