Live Well Within Your Means

Rock Bottom

You can never really live, until you hit rock bottom. Some advice a childhood friend said to me many years
ago, and I have heard it repeated many times since then.

If you want to see an example of this, rent the movie Fight Club. It is all about hitting rock bottom.
It is all about survival, what will you do if you have to survive. There really are only 2 choices.
Do what you have to do.
Give up.

Once you make the choice, then you truely are free, but most never get there. Some start early in Life,
they are survivors, they get up in the morning and say, "What do I need to do to accomplish my goals today"
And others, well they say "Do I really have to get up?"

My blog is based 0n this simple principle. "You must start from the bottom, and work your way up"
This is accomplished by a simplified life style, that is healthy, and positive. And here is one way to start.

Reduce you spending and life style to the bare minumum. Only that which you require to survive. Buy or borrow a
tent, drive to a remote camp site, with 1 gallon of water, and 1/2 a loaf of bread. And live there for 1 day and 1 night.
You will have to ration your supplies so you have enough, and yes you may keep some stuff in the car in case of emergency.
But park the car a mile away so it will not be a temptation.

Learn a little meditation before you go, and it is best to go in the off season, usually during the week when everyone
else is still working. Don't talk to anyone, unless they come and talk to you, but enjoy that experience too.

After one day of this, think about simple pleasures that you miss. Shower, flush toilets, friends, kids. All the thing 's
that are most important to you. After that experience, do you really need to go and by that big screen TV?
Will it bring that much pleasure in your life? What if you had to lose the big screen? Could you handle that ?

more later....

- axeman

This my friend is called survival.