Other People's Rules

Accepting the rules of money... in areas you make money, is a way to create space to completely ignore them in other areas where you want to create different rules. 

Accepting SOME control of money over you, allows you to not let money have COMPLETE control over you. 

To do that, you have to both desire and be in a position to develop a sense of ownership. Ownership of a buffer and an engine to handle the noise. You need a container for those tools, and you need ownership of that container. 

If you are solving problems, and making yourself redundant, there needs to be real commitment from those you are solving the problem for... beyond hand-to-mouth payment. Real commitment. 

Otherwise, the best strategy is just to extract as much as you can, while you can, or make yourself irreplaceable. Solving their problems, but in a way that forces them to keep coming back. 

Otherwise, they can simply say, “I paid you for a job. End of story.” In that case, you have to be realistic enough to realize you are just working FOR them. 

You need a separate container that represents your compounding ownership. You need long-term ownership of a vehicle you control to reinvest what you are paid, to lay foundations for future growth. 

That is the cornerstone of a sustainable engine. An engine that can empower you. That can let you make decisions beyond other people’s rules.

Long-Distance Growth