Sold their lumber repaid LONG do what you love Adam Baker Hey.
Today I would like to give you a job.
To answer the question.
The good news is that the question is quite simple, in terms of its content.
Bad - that people were trying to answer them for thousands of years.
People sacrificed life to this question, they fought for it and in a way they gave their lives in defense of this question The question is this: What does it mean to you FREEDOM? And I'm not talking about the dictionary definition of freedom as well as academic and intellectual debate, what freedom is, but about what freedom is for YOU? What is the significance in your own life? And I know it's myself that this question can change your life, since when we asked them to deal with his wife Courtney 3 years ago.
At that time it was a bit awkward to talk to us about freedom.
It was at night when we brought our daughter Milligan from the hospital.
As new parents, we tried the 30-40-50 minute lull it in a new place.
Then we walked like a zombie next to the kitchen table.
When we sat down, I turned to her and said: Honey, I need to talk to you about something.
Before after 5 years of marriage, I've learned that the worst way to start a conversation.
And I say: -Chciałbym talk to you about freedom.
You can only imagine what was her reaction.
To this day I can not repeat.
But when we started to talk about it any longer, we discovered it was a perfect time for us.
Because at that time in our life we lacked one thing: Transparency.
To stand back and think about how we go through our lives.
And whether it correlates with what we really wanted.
We started with the financial aspects of life.
Our financial life "degraded" to a simple question: "What is another part of the house we want to replace?" Ever had this conversation? "We exchange the couch, or will save and buy a new table to the kitchen?" "We should change a flat or maybe just more flat TV?" That was our financial life at the time.
And it is obvious that we had too bad debt.
We were a little early twenties.
Nielicząc huge student loans, we had a consumer loan for $ 18 000 to start a life together.
We also had 4 credit cards, paying two car loans, credit for wedding jewelry, a loan from the family.
I used to joke that we were collectors loans.
We had all but mortgage.
And zganijcie what? We bought a house! It was the hottest time of our lives.
I started a new business, after working 80 hours a week.
Courtney finished college, started working as a teacher.
More feverishly it could not have been.
And we even took a mortgage? It did not make sense.
And when the moment came glare when Milligan brought home, I noticed that this is another thing that "scenario" according to which we conducted our lives.
And this is not the scenario we chose.
He chose us.
He chose us because we did not want to answer this question.
If you do not want to answer this question, certainly will be someone (company, person, government entity) who will be happy to find the answer for you.
And you wake up one day and find that you are living according to someone else's script.
It works more or less like this in the US: In elementary and junior high school they teach us how to learn.
We go to high school, grades begin to count.
And if you have good grades in high school, you get the privilege of.
debt to tens of thousands of dollars to pay for college In college, you're doing a lot of different things, and finally you get the coveted title, a piece of paper, which goes by the promise of safe operation.
A stable, well-paid jobs.
Then you get an apartment full of junk, and if you have not been able to attract a partner college, it now with these junk sure you succeed.
2-3 years later you have children, you may be promoted and changing housing and continue this cycle for the next 30-40 years of his life until I reach the "promised land" - retirement.
Naturally, there is nothing wrong in this scenario.
Unless.
you do not want it.
We discovered it at the kitchen table, that we live according to the default scenario and we do not want that.
So we asked what we want.
The answer took us some time.
But we discovered that we want to "clean up the account.
" Erase the whole damn thing is present in our lives.
It continuously collecting new things.
So we sell everything superfluous, and the rest to throw two backpacks, that we will carry with you.
We repay $ 18 000 loan, which reflects our reckless spending and we spend a year traveling around Australia the whole family.
That was our goal, which we have planned.
A year later, my wife Courtney took this picture.
It's me and my daughter Milligan, now has 3.
5 years We are sitting in the plane on the way from Indianapolis, Indiana.
Year of conversation between the kitchen and the picture was very heavy.
We had to analyze a lot of things to look deep in our image, that was not so, we would like to make people viewed.
We had to change a lot of habits and beliefs, to get there.
But we managed to do it.
When we were getting on the plane, we had 2 backpacks and most necessary things, no $ 18 000 debt, which started and we took our way to Australia.
From Indianapolis to Chicago, Chicago to LA where nieprzespaliśmy night, we finally arrived to Sydney.
From Sydney we got to Cairns, a city lying just off the Great Barrier Reef.
Sleepless 28 hours flight with a one-girl.
I'd show you how we looked like being on the spot, but we made a pact, that no living person will not see these photos.
But I'll show you another picture of our trip.
Chciałym present the slideshow, but I will show you just that.
Again I have done by my wife, who is seen as a great photographer.
It was taken in Cairns wybrzerzy in 3-4 week of our trip.
There is a small island called Magnetic Island.
And on this island while we were at breakfast after the arrival of the ferry, we went on a half-hour tour, during this trip we saw kangaroos Australian Koala bears in a tree.
We felt like a movie.
When we got to the top, we looked at the private beach And then it dawned on me like never before.
And I realized that just live our dream.
Do not get me wrong, then things do not matter ogarnialiśmy.
Even at this point in the trip, especially with a child, Constantly taught, But for better or worse.
It's MY wrote the screenplay.
After all, we were in control of our lives.
I know that not every one of you wants to sell everything and fly to Australia.
This was our definition of freedom three years ago.
And change even now.
But I know that YOU have to define it looks like freedom in your life.
I have to take this step today! Where the process begins for most people? Exactly here, where are your lumber.
Look at this junk! Almost to pour into the streets! Now it seems to you that this is an extreme case.
But if you think about it.
How many of you have "friends", which garages, free rooms, cabinets a little different from this? It really is not extreme.
This standard flex more than you think.
But I ask you, what happens when that person loses his job? What happens if he gets a better offer in another city? When you have to adjust physically, emotionally, financially to any situation in life? In the best case, they are at a standstill, stagnation, kept in a snare, have a lock before adapting to any situation, by the amount of stuff they have.
But we have a way, a little cunning trick to facilitate that process: We put them here.
Did you know that behind this millionth business, allowing you to flip the old junk, we can make a change and buy new lumber! At this point, there are 2.
22 billion square feet of warehouses in the US alone.
It's amazing.
Every man, woman and child, can stand shoulder to shoulder and fit under indoor warehouse if needed.
So what is it? Why we're obsessed with buying new things, while being tied to the old? How "wkupiliśmy 'in this addiction? I think it's a certain kind of myth.
The myth, which says that the acquisition of things and pursuit of the environment, filled with different things, guarantee our safety.
Many of us think that it will give us the happiness! And in the pursuit of things we begin to identify with them.
You can determine who succeeds and who does not; Who is stellar, and who is not.
Whose garage looks like I showed, and whose vice versa.
So we begin to identify with our things.
But the truth is that we realized that most people ever see in your life, is the fact that more things, especially junk, will not give you security.
I certainly can not also happiness.
In fact it was quite the opposite, when Courtney and I sold more and more things.
I often ask this question.
Do you ever regretted the sale of a thing? Or have you ever had to buy back previously sold thing? And always, when I ask when and telling my story, I try to think about it honestly.
Right now.
And the answer is always the same: NO Not a single item that sold did not cause me grief.
Never after the sale did not say: "I feel so insecure" It was completely the opposite.
As we sold our layers of junk, we felt, if we pulled down the weight.
We felt more flexible, efficient.
Ready to repel any negative moments in life and more open to the possibilities.
We were no longer restrained by the obsession of ownership.
We started the way other people perceive, to see that their identity is not based on material things, but on experience.
It is not about collecting expensive and beautiful things.
Only a rich and interesting experience.
We should identify with the people and ourselves on the basis of experience, not what we have.
I would also like to talk to you more about the American Dream.
And he is no longer even an American, only applies to the entire world.
And partier idea that if you work really hard, You can buy into August in this fantastic lifestyle.
And this is still true.
The more stress and suggest that consumerism is a problem for us.
(A so).
If the linear equation remain so, so simple, It will be easier to control.
Do you want more money.
What are you doing? You buy less.
Do you want to change jobs or work less.
You buy less.
It sounds simple, almost too simple.
But it is so.
But in the last 20-30 years we cheesecloth to this little trick.
We added to this part of the puzzle that makes it much more.
Malignant.
We found a way, thanks to which we must first do not work to buy.
We no longer have to work on this lifestyle.
We can just reach it.
And of course you already know what I'm talking about.
This debt! So, in order to buy into this fantastic lifestyle, borrowing.
We do this at a young age and later, this is the norm.
Of course, there were thousands of years long.
But we mastered it to perfection in the last 20-30 years.
Perfectly we use them every day.
What causes it, when we want to buy this lifestyle, apologetically, in what we are great, we have more work to pay off the debt.
So it keeps us at work.
Would not it be great if they liked your work? Most of us do not like their jobs.
Actually, most of the highly unpopular.
So we no longer have the flexibility to change it - because we have a debt.
Not only do we have to pay the bills, but also the debt.
So we go back to work, which we do not like and sit in it longer.
Is there a better recipe for stress on this planet? Than spending the majority of present life on the job you hate, to pay the debt that dragged a good few years ago? Normal, that are stressed or overworked.
And as we are doing with this stress? There are two main ways: We eat and buy.
We escape from the grind of the marketing.
We deserved because we work hard.
So we justify.
Someone buying clothes, someone else gadgets.
Most of the leaves in warm countries to get away from your work.
But we do not have the money yet.
So we borrow.
We pay for the escape of even greater debt.
And you see that it works like a ball of snow.
It's a cycle that ties millions around the world.
I want to tell you today that you are too valuable to be stuck in this.
Nigel Marsh spoke at TED w Sydney And he put it much better than me.
He said: In the world there are thousands of people living in quiet desperation, przepracowujących long hours at work, they hate, to be able to buy things they do not need, to impress people they do not like.
When I first heard it in his speech at TED, It not just almost knocked me off my feet, but it was painful when repeating because it is so true.
I'd like you imagined, how your life would look like if you decided from today collect experiences rather than things.
Imagine how much power and flexibility introduce it into your life.
If you removed the specter of circulating stress and debt.
Imagine how they were bigger impact on the world in which we live, if each of us woke up in the morning because the caller does not alarm, but with excitement for the coming day of work, we love, or business based on our passion The problem is complex, but the solution is very simple.
Remove the weight that holds you back.
Remove junk from your life, remove the obligation, and you'll be more free to start work on which you really care.
This is the way to safety.
This is the way to happiness.
Another observation, which I have for you: Do you realize that we are the most free people in history? We are among the freest creatures that ever trod the earth? What are you doing with that freedom? How you use this great gift that you have? Start with a simple question.
What is for you FREEDOM? Only your own answer has the power to change your life.
This answer will change your world, if you let it.
So my task for you, then go out today and find the answer to this question.
And it will be worth the idea to share.
Thank you.
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