So what do you do now? It has taken you several years to get where you are today. You have not slept in as long as you can remember and the last time you actually took a holiday was when you were 14 – that’s right, you remember that vacation? You have been working for just about your entire adult life, but you have won the lottery. You have sold your photo-sharing company to Facebook for $1 billion. You just inherited an oil field. Your grandparents have left you a global hotel chain. You have just come into more money than you know what to do with.
What do you do now?
You just purchased a Lamborghini. You own a private jet. You have built your dream house, and a second one to go along with it. You have all the notebooks, phablets, cameras and gadgets a person can physically own.
What do you do now?
You have gone to all corners of the globe. Every place on your bucket list is checked off including some places you had not planned to visit. You have volunteered in Africa and climbed the Eiffel Tower. You have gone through the Amazon rainforest.
What do you do now?
You have given to charity. You have started your own charity. You have paid off your friends mortages. You have become an internationally renowned public figure and swept up every award that can be won in your line of work.
What do you do now?
You have learned to cook, play an instrument, build a shed, fly a plane. You are fit, have a healthy diet and improved yourself to your maximum potential.
What do you do now?
All of this has only taken 6 years. Your ambitions have been fulfilled. Your bank account is flush. Society deems you to be successful. You still have about another 60 years to fill before your time here is over.
It’s Saturday morning, it’s sunny outside, and the day is yours… close your eyes.
What do you do now?
Stop trying to make money to pay for stuff you don’t really want, and go do that.
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