Rule #1: Separate your time from your income

Wealth

Jan 16

At its core, money is a tool, a medium of exchange by which we store the fruits of our “labor” for later, undefined, and unrestricted use.

Traditionally, we trade our time for money, literally giving our life energy away today in exchange for the ability to acquire needed resources in the future.

Most of us spend the majority of our waking hours acting at the direction of an employer, subjugating our Agency to that of our bosses, allowing them to choose when we work, who we work beside, and which tools and methods we use. In exchange, we receive a paycheck and the steady of injection of money into our lives.

While useful, this paradigm ultimately runs counter to our aims — our goal of Agency requires that we have full and elective use of our current days and hours without undue thought given to our basic needs nor the whims of a higher authority, our requirements for shelter, food, and comfort met passively and without the need for time-consuming employment.

Achieving this requires that we separate our time from our income, our money arriving as a result of our investments rather than our employment — first in part, and then entirely. This is our primary Wealth goal, and the goal served by each of the remaining Wealth Rules. Once achieved, it is a key unlock in our pursuit of Agency and Impact, as necessary as it is powerful.