In order to get what you want, you need to exert energy. How fast you get what you want is a product of how much energy you’re willing to exert and over what time period.
Also the walls between you and where you want to be are made of paper. If you can see the light shining through the other side of the ones that you want to walk through, you can. This will make others upset sometimes, because they either exerted a lot of their own energy to erect these walls, or went the long way. Let your intention cut right through the social convention.
The universe will provide you what you want faster if you want the right thing. When I set goals that were measured in dollars, I never achieved them within the timelines I’d set out. I didn’t really want money. For a long time I wasn’t wise enough yet to know that I wanted the freedom money could provide me.
When I started to work towards goals that were true to my inner voice insofar as I could hear it at any point in time, I would achieve them dramatically faster than I thought possible.
I turn 27 years old this week. I run a company working to bring the aging process under complete biomedical control. I spend every day working with people I love and want to see succeed. Our investors are badass, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to create value with them.
10% of my time is occupied by real estate, but this results in 90% of my stress. It takes a village to build a company. In my experience, it takes a family to build a village. My father, sister and I are finding opportunity where others have abdicated responsibility in a disinvested community in Saint Louis, MO. I bought a house there 7 years ago for $10,000. I had to take a cash advance on 2 credit cards to even afford it at the time. Those cards are paid off now and we have many more in the pipeline.
I am engaged and getting married this summer to a woman who believes in beauty, kindness and living with intention. We were encouraged to do a marriage preparedness course through a church. My main takeaway was that
> marriage involves the death of two independent lives, as husband and wife come together to form “one flesh.”
Honestly this is daunting. I’ve only ever been one flesh. I am eager to try it out.
For further reading on the subject, I’m just starting The Sufi Path of Annihilation. Itlak Yolu is a Sufi spiritual practice focused on annihilating the capital 'S' Self to achieve union with the Divine.
So I guess this is a memoriam.
See you on the other side.
-Benjamin Anderson
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