5 Years of Freedom

This will be brief as I’m off to dinner in a few minutes but I wanted to tell you that TODAY, 5 YEARS AGO I left my job for the VERY LAST TIME EVER. Yes, I walked out and almost ripped the steering wheel off my Mercedes on the way home because I was literally as manic as I’ve ever been and let me tell you…

Five years of total freedom because I was willing to take everything I have, put it into one stock and leverage the shit out of it. This whole trade aka my life isn’t done yet so maybe I’m a stock that’s doing well now and I’ll crash? That said, I also might BTFO and I really enjoy the fact that my life is like a stock. Before that, I was doing a vanilla job in a government town aka my life was like some guaranteed investment fun which pays crap and is for those with zero risk tolerance.

I’ve seen six continents in style, I’ve met 1000’s of friends and had too many times to even count. When people ask me a favorite place or time I can’t even think of one because my mind is like that wheel on Wheel of Fortune and everything I think of is pretty good. That said, everything is definitely not perfect, it never is. I just have different problems and one of them isn’t boredom.

I made a video I’m going to upload so I’ll publish that in a day or so but just wanted to share this. Lots of people I knew were shorting my stock silently before I left almost laughing in one of those smug “Who does he think he is, you can’t just leave”. If you’re a PPT member, go to the forums in 2009 where I asked if anyone had ever done something like this.

I think in the next few years, this will be increasingly popular. I’ve dove down the rabbit hole and there is NO GOING BACK. I’ve been a dog without a leash who figured how to jump on planes and has sniffed others around the world, going back to a leash or worse, a cubicle cage is a fate worse than death at this point. It’s good and bad. Good because it keeps me motivated, bad because if things fail… I’m $@#$Ced.

So yeah, if you leave your life behind and casually toss a hand grenade over your shoulder as you take that last step crossing the bridge, the world awaits. Anything can happen but never go somewhere to think you’ll have it different. Whatever you have now is a result of your thinking, go somewhere else and similar scenes, characters and outcomes will happen. If you’re a winner, you can win on any court around the world; if you’re a loser, expect to get dunked on and lose your kicks.

I’m off to some dinner and loving Italy. I find this place inspiring and I like the language; hell I like all the romantic languages. The food here is fantastic and the people are quite friendly besides this old a$$hole selling hot chilli’s who freaked out on a lady I know from Norway. Besides that though, all is good.

Long story short, take risks confidently and commit. Oh, what’s kinda weird about all this is that I held my job for 5 years after university so every day now, I’m actually doing what I’ve done most of my adult life… I scratch my head sometimes at how all this happened because I’m just some guy from a government city who wanted more and was passionate about wanting to see the world. Lots of characters I met when I started have all let the dream die, if you have something burning in you that no rainstorm can extinguish, I suggest you pursue it…

Life is short, make sure it’s SHABLesque(sic).

Tips hat,

P.S: Photo is mid-September 2009 in Vancouver, where SHABL started.

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