Hooked on the Money !!-$-!!

I am hooked on the money!

I am passionate about what I'm doing. I'm blogging like there's no yesterday. I'm in a self perpetuating positive loop and I can't get enough. The money only makes it better!

Passion
I have not enjoyed doing anything as much as I enjoy what I am doing with my blogs. I'm expressing myself creatively. I'm tapping into my knowledge and education foundation. I'm researching and researching and researching and analyzing and writing and loving every minute of it.

I'm networking and building new concepts and new businesses and growing all of these things together.

I wake up, read, research, think, write, and repeat.

I'm living a healthy, happy and balanced life.

There's no Yesterday
I read a book by Umberto Eco a few years back. The Island of the day Before. Its a great but screwed up and crazy book, the type of book that only Umberto can write. In it the main character is searching for the Solomon Islands at a time in history when time changes were still understood in a very philosophical sense. As the character was basically crazy, he focuses a lot on his potential for time travel, just one day to yesterday. He's hoping to catch up with his nemesis.

I'm not looking back myself. I have no nemesis from yesterday to murder. I also know that information can live on for many many more tomorrows. As I write these words it is possible that someone may read them some day next year, next decade even in centuries to come. I may read them myself in centuries to come.

As an optimist with all the time in the world, I have no pressure to rush and I write like there's no yesterday (no demons to contend with) and no tomorrow with a time clock expiring. I just write and know that someday it will have value and be useful.

Creative Outlet
Everything I do these days either teaches me something new or builds something new. It is very difficult to think negative thoughts when everything you do is about growth and creation.

My Terrific Strange Loop
All my endeavors, and there are very many, are focused on building a better mouse trap. These endeavors are spread out and cover many many different areas from my writing to my design work to business planning and financial work and more. They are all helping me achieve the same goal. I have a network of niches building a micro foundation together.

I get great feedback (and I'm not talking about encouraging messages, comments or email) from my partners, customers, clients and stakeholders. The feedback is great not because its all positive, but because it all helps me grow. The critical feedback helps me hone my direction and efforts and I track towards improvement.

Oh and the Money
The money I'm making from blogging and all of my efforts is phenomenal. I'm not living by the beach in Boca selling get rich schemes to people that might want to duplicate my efforts.

I've lived by the beach in Boca next door to guys like that and I'll be honest it wasn't for me. Apparently, it wasn't for several of them either as they had to spend some time in jail for things like pyramid schemes and Tyco financial scandals.

The money is great not because of the volume of cash. I'll be honest, I don't make as much as I used to holding down a 'regular career' when I was on the fast track up the corporate ladder. The money is great because I respect the work I did. I've worked my tail off for corporations and done a great job, delivered fantastic results, and made some companies many millions of dollars. I once saved my company literally a half billion dollars when I was earning less than $40k per year.

Bringing $500,000.00 in cash into my company got me promoted and I made an extra $15k the next year after my raise.

Bonsuses were not in the budget!

The reward I reaped for the effort just paled in comparison to the benefit that I had delivered to the company. I'm not talking about a feeling of entitlement on my part nor a requirement for gratitude. I was doing my job and my job required that I save the company that much money and I delivered. The salary I received and the position I held did not get me excited. I was living to grow my career and not living to make myself happy.

These days whenever I deliver, I deliver for myself. Every dollar I earn is a result of my labors, thoughts and research and writing and planing and marketing. All of this improves myself, my work, and my business. This is egotistical.

I do celebrate my own ego, almost as prescribed by Ayn Rand. I also work in collaboration with many partners. I now insure that my dealings are fair. I deliver fair value in exchange for fair compensation.

I finished off the book The World is Flat a few weeks back and I feel that I can attribute the fair exchange to the leveling effect. As an employee I was at an unfair disadvantage. These days I am no longer disadvantaged. In fact I have the upper hand. I can pick and choose my work and insure that I take on projects that are worthwhile.

The money I receive for this is much more valuable to me than any salary or wage or commission I've ever earned, and this is why I'm hooked on the money!