Changing the direction of your Life Purpose

[thehero]

Suppose Leo were to change from his current Life Purpose of sharing his deepest insights through Video into something new, like game design. 

And suppose Leo only had 6 months of pay saved up. 

 

His options are: 

1. Side-hustle game design until it makes enough money to become his full-time job

Question: I feel like this is incredibly nonoptimal because it takes away time from doing his enlightenment work and other meaningful pursuits 

2. Get a game design job

Ruling this out because a job may not coincide with his values

3. Quit YouTube and live off his 6 months pay and grind game design to make money (assuming it takes him 6 months to make money from it) 

Question: 

If he's working on his new purpose and is now in need of money, what should he do? 

Can you have both the passion for your work & mastery but at the same time genuinely need to work to make ends meet?

Or does one come after the other, and his motivation for mastery and contribution will come after he gets a stable living? According to Maslow, stability 2nd, contribution 3rd (or more like 6th). 

4. Move to another country where cost of living is cheap and live 4x longer off his 6 month income. 

Question: Even if this is the case, won't he still have to focus on money first? If not then this seems like a viable option 

5. Crash at a friends place until his new pursuit makes enough money to thrive 

This seems similar to #4, but maybe even better because you get to work without having to pay money and possibly get to live in the city you were already in. 

 

How would you do it? 

My only real solution would be to build a passive income stream, this would make it easy to transition from one life purpose to another because you don't need to think about money nearly as much. 

 

Edited May 31, 2018 by thehero

[Sevi]

This is what I assume too. There is no easy answer to such cases. But to my opinion, continuation of YouTube videos rather than a sharp cut is kind of common sense to start with; maybe with a little less investment of time and energy on them. For game design type of subject, I would say to go against to your values for a bit and get a design job generally accelerates the process for you rather than one goes himself alone, till he builds up a momentum in that field.. But all these are just quick toughts occuring.. It takes to be more analytical then checking what your heart says about it I believe.

[dude]

The problem with a backup passive income stream is that it still requires a lot of time and effort to sustain, or will dry-up quite fast. There is another problem with that, you can always fall back and this will most likely result in not 100% effort in game design. (If you are developed this would be no problem though)

Why this question tho lol. Are you trying it?

Edit: in Leo's case I guess (not sure tho) he has enough cash/passive incomes streams already to just stop. (LP course, Book list, Video's)

Edited May 31, 2018 by dude
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[thehero]

@dude Yep, I was just using Leo as an example. This is my current path. 

 

@Sevi @dude

So what about the idea: Can I have the path of mastery & passion but also working for money both motivating me at the same time?

Edited May 31, 2018 by thehero

[dude]

@thehero Here is a story from my own life that may help:

I was working(programming) in a software house. Fulltime the whole week 9 to 5. I had to travel 4 hours everyday to and back from work. The strangest thing happend in the 3 free hours I had every day. I just started my animation stuff, a lot of learning was happening and in those 3 hours I did more than I currently do the whole day. I finished video's every week even while I had almost no time. I think I was able to do so damn much every day because tho whole day I was sitting at work literally thinking: "I can't do this my whole life, if I don't find a way out I will go crazy" So everyday I worked my ass of when I was home.

But now I'm back in school and everything is just fine. Life is layed back I have way more free time but I don't get shit done.

Moral of the story, it depends on how you yourself interpret the events how you interpret the situation you're in. So you can definitely work while doing your passion, I did it. My advice if you have 6 months fully focus on building your skills, read books be in constant deliberate practice, few people do this. In 6 months you will probably have sufficient skill to get a Job in your field. From there you can build up your own thing.  I got a playlist on YT - check it out it may help. New video coming in 3 days.

Edited May 31, 2018 by dude
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[Sevi]

59 minutes ago, thehero said:

 

So what about the idea: Can I have the path of mastery & passion but also working for money both motivating me at the same time?

Yes. Of course. It's all about consciously knowing what you want. Then, it's planning the layout accordingly (your circumstances, your personality, your weaknesses especially)

And it's good to know this type of choice takes longer, so you might find yourself not fitting with what others do or where they are at, so you need to keep your measurement system right, comparisons can fool you if you are gonna go in a unique path.

And prioritization is also a part of such balancing act; sometimes you choose to stick to your values; sometimes you do whatever is essential to get ahead of the field.

32 minutes ago, dude said:

I just started my animation stuff, a lot of learning was happening and in those 3 hours I did more than I currently do the whole day. I finished video's every week even while I had almost no time. I think I was able to do so damn much every day because...

Life is layed back I have way more free time but I don't get shit done.

Well self motivation and to inspire yourself in a constant basis is a tricky thing. I believe it boils down into produce "hope" for future and the ability to tame the scarcity of future and unknown thus design and form the future that way.

 

*well i guess i have to focus on this big event that I'm in right now I'm in the world's second big casino right now:) kind of fun:) in a way...

Edited May 31, 2018 by Sevi

[joej]

I guess I am doing a lot of self actualising right now outside of my software development role. My company is suffering my lack of attention, while simultaneously my current calling is leaping ahead. It would be way more efficient if I just switched, but I know that at some point I feel I will know what to do and take a big leap. It comes down to patience and short feedback loops.