Acquiring Freedom Through Crypto - The journey of a thousand miles just got a little easier!
It's been close to a year since my last post. Gosh, time sure does fly when you are constantly doing at least two things at a time and your attention is sprung across multiple facets, constantly trying to overcome life's daily struggles. Jumping through hoops, avoiding obstacles on each step, going full-force is tiresome to say the least. Although quite very rewarding in the end, my quality of life and mental state deteriorated heavily in the process.
I've lost my true self.
Got increasingly frustrated as each day passed by. Piercing anxiety impaled my soul. Had way too many things on my mind constantly stressing me out. I was stuck in no man's land. At one point it got so bad I lost all motivation to keep going as my efforts seemed futile. I wasn't moving much, or at least not as much as I wanted to although I was giving it all I had. The problems kept adding up, stress kept continuously increasing and so did the anxiety. Spending 8 hours a day at a highly stressful job didn't help. The mental pressure was unbearable. Finding any sort of balance was impossible and every part of my life was imploding.
This is was a very frustrating point of my journey but I've said to myself:
„Fuck it, it was never supposed to be easy,stop being such a little bitch, keep going and eventually you'll make it!“
In-between juggling IRL, mental, relationship issues,constantly having to return back to the stress-ridden job and trying to make it as an investor/trader I could barely get some free time with my thoughts, let alone catch a break long enough to write up a compelling article. This lasted for more than a year. I've managed to pinpoint the main cause of negativity in my life being the job I had to sustain in order to fuel my trading endeavours with which I plan to acquire financial freedom.
Keep in mind that I've spent two years working at that place, only to be able to buy crypto and financially free myself. I've diligently put aside and invested a large chunk of my paycheck into crypto every month and one day when I realized that I'm finally eligible to take out a loan, I ran straight to the bank to inquired some shillings.
Took out a small loan and invested 70% of it just a few days before the 50%+ March Corona crash.
Lost 50% in a matter of days but wasn't fazed.
My conviction was just as strong as a few days ago and my seasoned hands of steel have been forged in the face-melting fire of the 3-year bear market so without even having to think about it I held onto my initial investment and haven't sold a single satoshi during the dump.
Needless to say, the portfolio is up more than 10x since.
I've never seen even seen the amount of money I have now let alone have it in possession. It took me four painstaking, grueling years of grinding fiat - investing - losing a majority of it, to get to the point where I am at today.
To say that it was worth it would be a tremendous understatement.
Now that I was finally able to raise the middle finger to my low-IQ-high-self-esteem boss and tell him to have fun staying poor earning his beloved Pi tokens, that is exactly what I did. I've raised the middle finger high up in the air and left the building for good. I'm never returning back to that place ever again, at least not to work. Maybe to flex some gains after the next 10x because most of my colleges thought I was crazy for investing so much of my time/energy/money into crypto but definitely not to work.
I'm giving myself a shot at freedom and a shot at exponential success by investing in myself to free up a large portion of my time and mental space so that I can zero in on what matters the most.
I've already dedicated a portion of my portfolio to paying myself out a monthly paycheck and I'm more than ready to take this opportunity to shine and make the most of it.
We are in the middle of a fucking bull run for Christ's sake!
We've been through hell and back. We've lost the 50%'s, the 70%'s the 90%'s, heck some of us even lost it all during the tragic 3-year bear market but now we are making it all back in multiples fellas!
Having to spend more than 50% of my awake-time on work when our precious intangible digital coins are doing 10-50x's a month (for me personally) is ridiculous and beyond financially irresponsible at this point.
I just had to cut this time-consuming, life force-evaporating activity to replace it with time-saving, vitality-invigorating activities.
Got so much on the to-do list it's not even funny. Not sure where to start so I wrote this post to check the first checkmark which is to write a comeback post to get my blood pumping and get me going.
That's pretty much it for now.
I won't spill the beans just yet.
Will only hint that I got a lot in store for this community. If I can only get a few more X's I'll be able to give back and create value for this entire blockchain and each one of its users. Ex-Steem, now Hive, gave me a whole nother perspective on crypto and life in general which is a debt I'll never be able to repay fully. It completely leveled up my thought proceses on so many levels and fundamentally changed me and my perspective for the better which is something I'll forever be indebted and gratefull for.
That's why I'll always be a part of this community/blockchain and Hive will always be a part of me.
That's also why I'll forever lock a portion of my stake and leave it powered up in support of the chain indefinitely.
Finally, this is also why I want to build stuff on Hive that will perpetually create value for this place and all of its participants. Value in form of eyeballs, laser-focused-niche eyeballs, a ton of new users, incentives for people to migrate from other chains to hive, token burns, etc.
I've got a lot in store for this place and the only thing that can stop me is a lack of funds to develop my ideas into reality.
This is an issue I'm dedicating my full, undivided attention to.
I expect to start building in the next few months hopefully releasing the first project in the next six months.
Wish me luck!
