Comments on: Scott's Life Purpose

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:01:57 +0000

Not our ebooks – our collaboration is out…:)

By: AJC

AJC — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:18:36 +0000

@ Diane – here’s some Dave Ramsey’ish weight loss advice: “don’t eat!”

Golden Rule # 2 says: “NO money – or ‘in kind exchange’ – will change hands via this site.” so your e-Book is out!

http://7m7y.com/about/

Separate e-Books, maybe?

By: Feeling your Life’s Purpose … «

Feeling your Life’s Purpose … « — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:41:10 +0000

[...] Scott should not at all feel badly in any way when I read his post (and the ensuing comments) and say: Honestly, I don’t ‘feel’ it, but that doesn’t mean it [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:45:49 +0000

Hi Scott, the challenge of having insurance paperwork, chasing down insurance claims and other red tape can be viewed as an opportunity. It is a problem that have to be solved for all doctors (and dentists). Let’s brainstorm – do you see yourself filing up the same information over and over again? Can that information be placed in a database and auto-fill the forms just like how browsers are providing? Can we eliminate steps from the process ala Lean Sigma? Are there software or system out there that solved this problem already? Something to think about.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:04:43 +0000

@ Diane – Yeah I think it would be great to produce an ebook about weight loss or anything. We may be able to come up with some great ideas to get the word out to help clear the confusion for people who want better health and in doing so, develop a great money making 201 tool. Great idea!

By: Diane

Diane — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:54:15 +0000

LOL – yes that is exactly true, Scott, about the joke. True about many books which say that we find this when we are true to ourselves and let our artsy self come out – very hippyish. But then your statement on “helping others” rather than simply “doing no harm” is along the same lines. Throw in the beauty queens who want to end world hunger and show the world how everyone can live together.

Have you thought about doing an ebook on what you’ve been discussing as things you can do to help others? I think you and I might find ways to collaborate on one related to weight loss – you provide the hard data for the analysts and I provide the emotional side (Dave Ramsey-ish way to lose weight?). Could be an added boon. Unless that violates that rule we signed up for (no business between us, rather than just no business between us and Adrian)?

Good luck in sorting it all out; otherwise all the paths might look the same and you miss the one you want (tho I heard somewhere none of our decisions are unchangeable).

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:56:08 +0000

All this actually reminds me of a funny line in one of my favorite movies called “Office Space”. It’s the part where the lead actor is talking to his neighbor about “what he would do if he had a million bucks.”

He states that if he had a million bucks, he would do absolutely nothing…basically not have to work, not have to worry about anything, etc..

To which is neighbor replies “Hell, you don’t need a million bucks to do nuthin’ man, just look at my cousin…he’s unemployed and broke and don’t do shxx man..” lol.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:48:12 +0000

@ Adrian – Yeah I do see your point. I guess in my purpose statement, i’m not really being clear and specific to others about the fact that in addition to the freedom and helping people, I still have a ‘dream’ 250k per year lifestyle that I want very badly, ie; world travel, european cars, fine dining. This is in addition to being free to spend more time with family, and help others. In other words, the same as you did/do, right? You wanted to travel spiritually, physically and mentally. I could play devil’s advocate and state how I know a lot of people that did that as hippies in the 60′s, bumming rides all across the country at least, ‘expanding their minds, ie; traveling mentally, by pharmaceutical means’, while on a constant spiritual quest, and they have done that while being practically peniless. When I was in the army, I also had buddies that never made more than 12k per year that were constantly traveling physically, mentally, spiritually and just about any other way you could imagine, all over the world due to their job, in constant flux. However, neither of the 2 examples above required anything close to multi-millions of dollars.

I guess the point is that anyone could read anyone elses purpose statement and it may not mean very much in $$ sense, but it can mean a lot of $$ to the person whom that purpose statement is attached to…does this make more sense?

By: AJC

AJC — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:28:40 +0000

@ Scott – Honestly, I don’t ‘feel’ it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. I’m going to post on this tomorrow … feel free to weigh in (in fact, PLEASE do so … we’re getting close to something important, I feel).

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:10:03 +0000

@ Lee – You got it Lee, I do believe that bondage is self imposed and I can definitely tell as I’ve gotten further out of debt and began to acquire assets, I begin to feel less and less bondage. But I want it gone as much as possible and think/hope? that achieving my number will eliminate much of the bondage as other very wealthy people have told me how it has done that for them.

Thank you for your kind words of encouragement