Topics: #CarpeDiem #DoLessBetter #OpportunityCost #Investing #Investment #Responsibility #SelfResponsibility #SelfDetermination #SelfDiscipline #SpiritualFreedom #FreeSpirit #TrueHappiness
One of the key lessons from my book is explained in the chapter titled, "Do Less Better".
Whenever you choose to do something or spend time, money, or energy on something, the opportunity cost is much greater than the regular cost.
Due to how far away from infinite anyone's time, energy, and money is, the opportunity cost of anything they do is huge: nearly infinite.
When I say this, I'm not just talking about what you do with your hands and outwardly visible body, but also what you spend time and energy thinking about:
Whatever it is, don't bother doing it at all if you won't be doing it happily with your whole heart, with deep spiritual presence and gratitude.
When I say "happily" in the preceding paragraph, I don't mean in terms of the ups on the roller-coaster of ups and downs that are the game of bodily comfort or emotional highs like an alcoholic feels when drinking or like an overeating food addict feels when eating, or like a gambling addict feels when gambling. No, I mean in terms of the unwavering invincible true happiness that is the inner peace and spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline) about which my book teaches. My book being, "In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All".
Some people describe this concept by saying, "life it too short." I roughly agree with that lesson, but saying it that way is a bit dangerous if not inaccurate in that it can mean one is over-identifying with the body, ego, and false self, and/or that one is forgetting objective time is an illusion (i.e. there is no objective now and no objective order to events). In other words, saying "life is too short" can mean one is not in touch with their eternal transcendental spirit, meaning that objectively unobservable subjectivity which makes your here a here and your now a now, meaning the thing we know exists more than we know anything exists, meaning the thing we are more intimately familiar with than anything else, meaning your true self, meaning the real you.
So, rather than say, "life is too short", I instead like to encapsulate the lesson like this:
"The present moment is too infinitely valuable."
"The opportunity cost of anything is infinite."
With love,
Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
a.k.a. Scott
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In addition to having authored his book, In It Together, Eckhart Aurelius Hughes (a.k.a. Scott) runs a mentoring program, with a free option, that guarantees success. Success is guaranteed for anyone who follows the program.
