Today, one of the guys in my coaching program posted this. He's 30. About 3 months ago he walked out of a 6 year relationship that had run it's course.
Before that he had been to a couple of Joanna's Dress for Dating Success events, three The Right Attitude workshops and some of my Personal Growth sessions. All of that gave him the support and courage as well as the ability to see his life had been going down the drain for YEARS!
This is a very long yet very POWERFUL post on money and women and the power of money and the actual use for money.
NICK SEZ: So, yesterday I was talking with one of the managers I know at work, about buying my own place. We were talking about the pros and cons, especially living onthe westside of LA. He suggested I maybe look in Long Beach. I said, Icouldn't because if I had to get a new job, it's toofar to drive somewhere where the studios are. He mentioned there are a lot of technology places inIrvine. Out of my mouth came the words, "I'd moveback to Florida before I worked in Irvine." Well,that was the truth.
Anyway, I started thinking about some of the stuff about Fuck You Money. Here are some of my notes I had culled from the TFA.
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FUCK YOU MONEYThere a few guys who did not read Office Politicsand/or they read it and decided to ignore the concept of FUCK YOU MONEY.
Money is your only friend, in the end.
Friends will desert you. Parents will die. Wives will cheat and leave.
If you don't have money, you're dog shit.
If you don't have money, you will sing "His tune anddance his jig."
If you want to be happy, money won't do it. But if you don't have money, you will never be happy.
Money is only the power to say, FUCK YOU.
ONLY AFTER YOU HAVE MONEY ENOUGH TO PICK AND CHOOSE: What you what to do make money. Where you want to be geographically. Where you live, quiet, safe, private house or noisy,dangerous apartment complex. What you drive. Thrashed something or quiet, safe a/c, stereo, reliable car with class.
RTFM -- Office Politics.
To whomever whined about having to do something he didn't like:
YOU HAVE TO EAT SHIT. SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE, GET DIRTY,GET TIRED, BE LONELY, BE FRUSTRATED EFC. You don't go from $20k to $100k unless you have something THEY WILL PAY FOR.
You may prefer making china dolls and photographing nudes, but that has to wait until you can say FUCK YOU.
I don't want to have to 'splain this fundamental fact again.
NO MONEY = NO WOMEN
FUCK YOU MONEY means you have $100K or more in thebank where widows and orphans keep their money.
It just sits there, you don't invest it or spend it.It just sits.
You go about your life. Your boss gives you shit, you say, "FUCK YOU."
Your boss says more overtime, you say FUCK YOU.
As to "balancing" once you have a quiet safe place to live, reliable presentable car, clothes and music, you have arrived. You can now work for whomever you want for as long as you want and as little or as much as you want.
If you have a house payment of $5000 a month, you are a MOE-RON in my view. You are a wage slave. If you have a house payment of $2000 you are approaching to point where you need $200,000 in the bank.
If you have car payments of more that $100, you are a MOE-RON in my view. You need only reliability andpreventability. The rest is ego aggrandizement.
Eight weeks of not working requires that you can pay for the rent/house car etc and sit in the backyard reading sci-fi, go to Debbie's and take her a goldankle bracelet, then go out to dinner at ChezBelowmeand spend $250, then go to the Hilton and sit in the Jacuzzi and order room service the next two days while eating, swimming, playing backgammon on the balcony and watching the sun go down before you romp in the bed with Debbie for hours.
THIS REQUIRES A "BALANCED" VIEW OF WHAT'S GOOD AND PRACTICAL AND RIGHT.
Let me quote Volume II - Good friends, good food, good conversation and great sex in any order you like. Those are the only things worthwhile.
That does not take a $5000 house payment or $700 car payment.
THAT TAKES A SENSE OF WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT IN LIFE.
Live as if you only have three years left and you will make no big mistakes.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
BALANCING ACT?
A BALANCED VIEW OF LIFE and what is really worthwhile.
YOU ARE 45, HOW MANY YEARSOF GOOD, ALIVE, ENERGETIC LIFE DO YOU HAVE LEFT?
AT 56, PROSTATE CANCER ENTERED MY LIFE.
Perhaps I should have flown airplanes more, but in SoCal it wasn't fun any longer. Beyond that, no regrets.
WHO knows when the Big C will enter your life?
When that happens everything else becomes very unimportant.
LIVE NOW. THE FUTURE IS A DREAM.
Just ask yourself
WHAT WOULD I NOT PUT UP WITH IF I HAD THREE YEARS TO GO?
If you have only 3 years, you wouldn't use heroin or rob banks.
If you have only 3 years to live, what should you be doing tonight that you are not doing?
We are all trying to be self actualized individuals.
Warning -- FINE POINT.
We do, or we do not, we don't try.
Self actualized people have enough, air, water, food,sex, security and love . . . their human needs are met.
ONLY THEN CAN ONE BECOME SELF ACTUALIZED.
UNMET NEEDS DRIVE EVERYTHING.
YOU CAN'T TRY TO BECOME SELF ACTUALIZED ANY MORE THAN YOU CAN TRY TO BECOME HAPPY.
Doing what YOU want to do that's how you become Self Actualized.
TIME, FREE TIME only comes when you have FUCK YOU MONEY,
All of this takes smarts,
NOT IQ SMARTS, COMMON SENSE AND ACCEPTING REALITY.
That is if "this" means enjoying good friends, good food, good conversation and great sex.
IF "this" means something else you did not understand what's ACTUALLY worthwhile, explained above.
Money prevents working for someone, somewhere doing something that deadens you.
Constant cash flow? Well I worked six months and fucked off for six months for years on end!
I had no CASH FLOW, zero. I HAD FUCK YOU MONEY and I saved my money when I was working and lived well below my means so that I could have 6 months of FREE TIME.
FREE TIME IS THE MOST VALUABLE THING ON THE PLANET.
If you work 50 weeks a year for chump change for five years you have nuttin.
If you work 50 weeks a year for $100k and spend $90k see above.
If you work two years for $100k and don't have $50K in the bank at the end of the second year, see above.
If you work four years for $100k and don't have fuck you money, you be dum.
You life begins on your terms only when you can say FUCK YOU and maintain your lifestyle.
If you have lifestyle that requires car payments and house payments and child support and so on, you have to figure out what can stay and what's got to go in order for you to end up with FUCK YOU MONEY.
Those who don't want to suck it up and sacrifice and reduce expenses to accumulate FUCK YOU MONEY, will be living hand to mouth for the rest of their lives, never feeling safe, secure and isolated from the Winds of Change.
You can't have your cake and eat Debbie Too.
> I have been self employed for about 20 years and haven't danced a jig> for an employer in a long time. I even pick andchoose my clients.
WHY ARE YOU NOT IN MAUI RIGHT NOW? WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT?
> And I will fire a client if they are too much trouble. I live off of> my wit's doing investments for my clients and charge them an ongoing> quarterly fee. I like what I'm doing, it has a more than adequate> constant steady cash flow and I plan on doing this until I'm 105 or> so.
Jesus h. Kerist. This is not becoming self actualized
This is becoming rigormortized.
What the is self espressive, self expansive, self revealing, selfanyfuckingthing about telling others what to do with their money?
What is YOU about that?
What does FRED dream about?
I can't imagine how telling some retiree what to do with his money is fulfilling?
Do you want to push other people's money around and take a cut until you are dead?
Investing other people's money is not self actualizing.
Consulting is not self actualizing.
Saying to client a, you should buy microsoft at $99 is not self actualizing.
Something like paddling a canoe on an empty lake at dawn reciting your own poetry SELF ACTUALIZING. Anything that fills you with JOY is self actualizing.
Epilogue:
Fred quit my discussion list shortly after this. That was about 4 years ago. I predict he is still pushing other people's money around and still taking dance lessons hoping to meet Miss Right. Or he's dead from Jack Daniels or Smith and Wesson to the head.
What will you be doing 1095 days from now? That's Branden's 3-years mentioned above.
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