This category’s posts relate to the need for everyone to figure out where their ikigai — a Japanese word for one’s calling — is, and whether it can lead to a ‘fun’ancially fulfilling life. In order to determine this, one must ask themselves the following questions affirmatively:
Is it something that I love doing?
Is it something the world needs?
Is it something I’m good at?
Is it something I can get paid for? If it’s not something you can get paid for, is what you can get paid for a good trade-off for financially supporting your ikigai; your life’s purpose. Activities that allow ikigai to be felt are not forced, but are spontaneous and comes out during a mental state of ease. If one can answer the questions with a yes, then it is almost certainly worth pursuing.
When I turned forty, one of the things I realized upon reaching the mid-way point of my life, was that I didn’t want the second half of it to be like the first. Saying things were not going well was an understatement, as all looked bleak financially, mentally and physically. In fact, things had gotten […]
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In my last post; No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem!, I wrote about Mark de Fraine and his Turks and Caicos Islands water sports charter business Wake to Wake Watersports, and how he and his partner created it. Related to this, in my blog posts, I give each a category that they fall under and
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The relief that Hurricane Fiona, having been downgraded to a Category 3 tropical storm did not cause the devastation that she might have, must have been considerable for Mark, having established himself as one of the top water sports tour operators in the industry. Between a World of GoPro October 2019 Million Dollar Challenge Q&A
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I met Mark, the 33-or-so-year-old subject of this Make More Monie profile in the fall of 2022, when I recognized him as a new – and very enthusiastic – user of the gym we were both sweating in, pushing and pulling ourselves through our paces. Sporting a rugby jersey on this occasion, I figured that
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