The subtle distinction between Life purpose and earning money

[non_nothing]

Hi everyone.

 

This is non_nothing. After spending long hours and almost a month about working on my life purpose, I have a feedback and a question for you today.

 

Feedback is: Life purpose is REALLY distinct thing, apart from earning ANY, let me say it again, ANY tiny PENNY. If you really have any actions or thinking towards making money from your life purpose, let me say from the first experience, you'll ruin your work. Why? Because in the background, your brain might have some wired logic running behind the scenes, testing it against whether you made money or not. This is that simple. LOOK. You won't be aware of this. Until if say, you have first person experience and got the point where I got.

If you have hard time understanding that, the following contemplates will help you:

- What is money? 

- Would I really be doing the thing I earn for money if there was nobody on the earth, for real. (Warning this is not some fantasy thing, of course this 99.999% time won't happen but this contemplate will lead you somewhere, take it seriously)

 

The question is: My life purpose is built around becoming a polymath, that is a person has wide spread interest on things i.e. how things work, physics, music, astronomy and such. The two primary source of my life purpose's study fields are music and electronics. Within these, I launched a channel and put my music work out there like 2 months ago. I stopped at the first plateau. Why? Because I was testing it against whether did I make money or not. So that, this had being pinpointed out, the question is, should I be very intentionally working on earning money from other things apart from my life purpose. Because I find that, it kind of poisons my life purpose and my passion. I can't escape the money game. So that I thought instead of escaping should I be doing it brute-force like going straight to it? The first thing is If I ever do such thing, I'm afraid it would be something really orange. And that wouldn't satisfy me at all. 

 

Meanwhile you guys read this and answer, I'll be contemplating on "what's that I fear If I don't have any money".

Thank you for your time.

 

 

[non_nothing]

Bumping the thread for potential answers to the following question asked above:

Should I be very intentionally working on earning money from other things apart from my life purpose. Because I find that, it kind of poisons my life purpose and my passion. I can't escape the money game. So that I thought instead of escaping should I be doing it brute-force like going straight to it? The first thing is If I ever do such thing, I'm afraid it would be something really orange. And that wouldn't satisfy me at all. 

[ExodiaGearCEO]

@non_nothing I remember Leo talked about this in the life purpose course. He said don’t chase the money. Even, if you don’t make any money out your life purpose for quite a time. It’s a hard to bite this bullet man. I started a business and I’m aware I’m in the trap of making money and don’t know when is time to give up or not because I already havley invested so much time and money in this. I’m also trying to figure out answers. 

[TomDashingPornstar]

Money is a often a good way to track a lot of the impact you have on people.  Your outflow is so positive, people hand you one of the things they prize most, or could be given to many other people for many other things, but right now, they're choosing you.

Money in itself is neutral.  It is just a placeholder so we can function as a larger, more peaceful society.  If you feel like it 'poisons' your life purpose as you say, then you should be well-served to find a way to make money without poisoning yourself.  This isn't always easy, and it's an issue that most of us grapple with, but we need to pay bills.

Money is part of the game.

Edited September 20, 2018 by TomDashingPornstar

[Mu_]

On 9/20/2018 at 2:10 AM, non_nothing said:

Bumping the thread for potential answers to the following question asked above:

Should I be very intentionally working on earning money from other things apart from my life purpose. Because I find that, it kind of poisons my life purpose and my passion. I can't escape the money game. So that I thought instead of escaping should I be doing it brute-force like going straight to it? The first thing is If I ever do such thing, I'm afraid it would be something really orange. And that wouldn't satisfy me at all. 

Hey nothing,

For starters I'd look into a few conclusions you've made. 

1.  That money within your LP will poison it.  This may be true from where your currently at, but not inherently so, you seem to have a gauge on that it is poisening you now, but does it have to remain.   Perhaps looking into your relationship to money can enlighten you.

2.  Don't worry about being orange, or green or purple, etc....  Just look at your life honestly.  Do you need to earn a living?  If yes, then ask yourself what you'd be interested in doing that can earn you a living.  If you can't earn a living just yet doing what you would enjoy, can you put some time and energy in getting that started while you find a job that can pay you now.  Does  this new job have to be looked at as slavery, it it possible to see it as a blessing getting you to your desire, and appreciate the job in the now, as such.  Almost like the job is connected to your passion job, one and the same

[UDT]

@non_nothing

Hey!

Since my life purpose is very similar to becoming a polymath, here my opinion which might help you. 

1. Polymaths are dying out because our labour force requires specialization.

2. Polymaths are dying out because even to be on the edge of one scientific field, now requires much more work than ever before. 

That´s the common answer on the topic. What people discredit is that polymaths did not choose this path on purpose, they have an intrinsic call for all those interests. And that again is God/Truth/YOU telling you that you need to seriously need to step up your game. Life demands full focus on studying and learning all you can. It is your destiny, if you deny it, you´re gonna be pretty miserable. 

So what does it mean practically?

1. Study your ass of, don´t complain, don´t think to much, you need more action. Be strategic, make plans!

2. Have trust and patience that your skills and knowledge will yield somewhere. Don´t rush it, drop your belief that making money is hard.

3. Have courage to not choose the 9-5 job your parents want you to go to because it is "secure and safe". You´ll not last there, to boring.

4. Drop your beliefs about that the only people who can make money are narcissistic, orange backstabber personalities. This is only the more easy way to do it. Making money authentically costs double the effort. 

5. Yes you need money. Work. Best for yourself, if you have insufficient skills and don´t know how, work in a field which is related to your interest and where you can learn something. If this is not available, work some night-shift which is paying more and lets you read and study in off-time. 

 

Good Luck!