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So one of my best friends is having a really hard time with a very common annoyance (he's doing better today), and I think all of us can relate to it.

Remember summer vacation? 3 months or so of pure fun and relaxation. Obviously the parentals will have you do chores, but most of the time (at least for me) it wasn't such a huge deal. Then you get to play until as late as you want, do whatever you wanted to do (that wasn't something "bad"), etc. Then it would all end and you would have to go to school.

Then you finish school and you never get a real summer vacation again. You always have to support yourself (or others) by maintaining income of SOME kind, and every now and then you get some time off. But never a full, really long summer vacation ONCE A YEAR. Hell no! Now you're thrown into this never ending loop of work. Work, work, work. Get organize, put together a "to-do" list. WORK WORK WORK!

There is work that can be fun, of course. After a while through, it seems that it transitions into normal bland work rather than fun work. Then what?

The struggle is here: How do you get your summer vacations back? The answer: Financial freedom.

The only "down side" is that you have to create your freedom through something that usually involves a lot of work. This something can quite possibly be work you do NOT enjoy.

And this something rarely makes you rich overnight; often times you have to endure several years of this work to attain your financial freedom. So what's the point? Why bother? If it's work, it'll definately suck, right?

The piece that is missing here is that there is an end to it. I'm not talking about retirement. I'm talking about the END OF BAD WORK. Bad work is work you do not enjoy. Do the bad work, make tons of money, and walk away rich. Then you can take all the summer vacations you want.

But does it always have to be Bad Work that makes you rich? Of course not. Work will always be there in some form or fashion, and it's important to accept this. Ideally we all never want to WORK on something. It's very easy to think that there is a world where you never have to work; maybe for those who are born rich and are pampered all their lives (even they have to work sometimes, believe it or not).

I personally believe that the focus should not be ON the work, but ON the results you create. CREATE that financial freedom, don't CREATE work. Then you can go on vacation and have hot supermodels make you breakfast and give you happy finishes or whatever. Sounds nice to me!

It's hard for some to accept the reality of work (like my friend). Once you accept it, AND you change your focus towards the results and not the work, you are guarunteed success. Right?

Right.

Anyway, things are crazy as usual. I picked up another DeAngelo course. This particular subject I've tried before, but it always failed for some reason. It wasn't so much how *I* was as a person, but how I would present myself. Most of his stuff I understand very well, but this one ought to open a few more doors for me. Looking forward to it.

AND, for those who read my rants, I got both of my computers working. The server is awesome; it's so small and quiet you can't even tell it's on. The big bad machine is great. Quake 4 runs silky smooth and I started drawing some comics last night with that digital sketchpad. It's harder than I thought it would be. I might just use Flash for that since I like how it renders vectors (Illustrator is kind of frustrating). We'll see.

I also have huge plans for Collective Underground, which has been a bit of a wounded puppy sort of thing. Lots of patching up I need to do, and new features I want to pop in there. That will be sweet. Once I have the whole system programmed, I'll have a staff of folks that will maintain the constantly updated content. So many plans! ARRRGH!

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