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M.J. DeMarco
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January 3 - July 14, 2022
And as long as they continued playing by culture’s rules, the game would remain unwinnable. It was time to do something different, or suffer the same existence, till death do us part.
Rewrite the Rat Race Script and Make Life Your Adventure
The rat race has a systematic way of destroying audacious goals.
A new economic class has emerged in the world. I call it The Unscripted 1%.
entrepreneurs who built businesses from nothing but sweat, an open mind, and a willingness to learn.
life purpose, financial freedom, the pursuit of passions (often unrelated to business) and more importantly, free time. Entrepreneurs dabbling within the Unscripted 1% usually enter the Economic 1%.
1%, it represents wealthy individuals, usually $10 million (USD) in net worth or more. Conversely, the “99 percent” represents the working class.
the Unscripted 1%. Why? Unscriptees prioritize time as their king in life’s chess game.
Unplugged Unscriptee
Unplugged Unscriptee.
parlance,
You wake up. And there’s no going back.
Fastlane Unscriptee
Fastlane Unscriptee is someone who has graduated from awar...
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exercising authority over your free time while having the means to pursue things that matter. While that’s different for everyone, an Unscripted business as engineered in this book can earn you this elusive power.
Liberated Unscriptee
I work as hard as ever, but just for my own learning, creating, and giving.
If your financial freedom is dependent on something you can’t control, you’re not free.
FIRE.
“financial independence, retire ear...
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To win an unconventional 1% existence you can’t think like the conventional 99%.P1 Remember, a new story needs new pens to write new words.S2 Let’s find them.
The Unscripted one percent is a new economic class that leverages Fastlane, CENTS-based entrepreneurship.
Trading Good Time for Bad is a Terrible Life Strategy
Freedom young is always more valuable than freedom old.
nebulous
financial fanaticism.
The definition of "freedom" is without restraint. If your daily existence is ruled by money, defined by money, budgeted by money, sorry, you're not financially
this couple is not free of money, they are ...
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spiel. Time freedom without financial freedom is like visiting Disneyland but you can't ride the amusements or eat the goodies. When you have financial freedom, you know it. You feel it. You live it. And believe me, you will love it.
Freedom young is always more valuable than freedom old. Whenever the
quip.
resolutely,
demurred
nonplussed.
reticence
incredulous
Engineer a 1/5/10 Planasy to Direct Decision-Making
relic
angst,
Planasy.
many people wander through life clueless to where their programming is taking them. We act on expectation and tradition, not what’s in the best interest of our happiness.
If you don’t take the lead in engineering your future, your story will be ghostwritten by the rat race.
Envision your dream goals in ten years, but then break it down into its five-year, one-year, and one-month components.
What goals would you need to hit to have the groundwork laid for your five-year vision?
What education and skills must you start honing to get you moving toward that one year vision?
After laying out all four goals and visions, congratulations. You just accomplished what most people never do... You’ve created a decision-making framework for your life, a guiding light for all future actions.
“whats.” Namely, does this action get me closer to my one month goal? What must you do tomorrow? Next week?
A ten-year vision without its one-month and yearly subsets is not a Planasy, but a fantasy. Back to that hot garage and my ten-year
Keep your visions updated and keep the 1/5/10 decision framework at the forefront of your life. Do that, and I guarantee this:
