I may not be qualified to speak on this topic or maybe I am, but either way since it is a personal realization I will share it anyways. Basically after doing a lot of thinking recently I came to the conclusion that being very rich and having tons of money freaks me out and this may have limited my ability to attain it (I haven’t yet) thus far. What I’m talking about is not the actual concept of having the money and the things you can do with it, but rather what it forces you to think about.

One thing that surprised me when I really thought about it was the extreme importance I put on money in terms of benchmarking my own happiness, image and general outlook on life. We all know that money is the not the answer to our problems, but I am convinced that most think it would be a good start. As I started forcing myself to be more honest about it, I started to realize that having a tremendous amount of money would be useful in a scary way. Since I place so much value on being rich, how would I be if I actually was?

When I started honestly imagining this I began to really see that being wealthy would make me question other areas and aspects of my life since I couldn’t worry about money anymore and quite honestly, that freaks me out. It is so easy to bury other important things in your life when your concern is first and foremost about money. This all goes back to the importance thing, so if you have put a high price (no pun intended) on being mega rich like I do, in terms of overall happiness, can you imagine yourself not having to worry about money. Would you TRULY be a happier person? What would you worry about? What would you do with your time? What things would change?

I think asking these questions of yourself is really important and can be beneficial in helping you to figure out what you need to do to change your outlook on different aspects of your life while re-modelling yourself into someone that will be a happy person first and (hopefully) a rich person second. It is far to easy in my opinion to consume yourself with money while overlooking other aspects of your life that could definetely increase your overall happiness as a person.

To me the name says it all, I have always had a tremendously hard time writing a first blog post that really connects with my future audience and gives you a valuable reason to come back to my blog and listen to my opinion. First off, I just want to say as far as “make money online” or “improve your life” style blogs go, this blog is not neccessarily going to focus on those aspects, but I am sure they will slip into some of the content due to my severe interest in business and better living. I guess I should will start out by telling you why I decided to make the blog in the first place…

Basically the creation of this blog boils down to an internal frustration I have felt for a long time about a large variety of issues in both societal conformity as well as business practices and really, the general state of thinking in a corporate society. I, as many have been a victim of shitty jobs, go-nowhere departments and companies full of more haters than you can shake a stick. This puts a really big mental strain on a person and sooner or later if you have the entrepreneurial bug, you will snap and get the hell out. While I did this at the ripe age of 19, and yes, I had already had that much experience with corporate bullshit.

My first venture that lasted for about 5 years until just recently was running a Catering company in my home town of Toronto that we grew from a one contract operation to a $175,000 a year money maker all while working part time from university. During school, my fascination with online business grew tremendously and I have since stopped catering and am presently working for a small Internet marketing company on some really awesome projects. Anyways that is a brief history to let you know where I am coming from, now on to the topics of the blog and why you should read me over the thousands of others.

In all honesty, I don’t particularly want to absolutely define the focus of the blog so instead I will give you a general idea of what to expect. I’m not going to lie, this blog serves a selfish purpose as it allows me to voice my opinion on things that are important to me as well as things I really want other people to hear. That being said, you can expect posts on travelling, money, changing your life, business, entrepreneurship and really whatever else may be of interest in the big picture of life. Alot of recent discussion and self-analyzing in my life has made me really question a lot of things and creating this blog was one of the new ventures that was really important to me. There are lots of other plans, which you will not doubt read about in the coming months but for now, I hope you have at least a somewhat vague understanding of what to expect.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I look forward to seeing you around FiveSomething in the coming weeks, months and years.