121: Happy, Smart, & Useful by Derek Sivers and A Reminder from the Mexican Fisherman by J. Money of Budgets Are Sexy

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🗓️ 10 April 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Optimal Living Daily: Reading you the best content on personal development, productivity, and minimalism. Episode 121: Happy, Smart, & Useful by Derek Sivers and A Reminder from the Mexican Fisherman by J. Money of Budgets Are Sexy. Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers created CD Baby in 1998. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks. Since 2011 he has published 34 books, including “Anything You Want” which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories. J. Money is a 6’1, hyperactive, rock a ‘hawk who loves drinking beer, blaring hip-hop, talking about money, and now playing with his two adorable baby boys. He also has a podcast: M.O.N.E.Y. He tracked his expenses for 3 months, made a budget, read some books, and stumbled into personal finance blogging and idea sharing, randomly turning BudgetsAreSexy.com into his full time “real job” a few short years later--14 million views later! The original posts are located here: https://sivers.org/hsu http://www.budgetsaresexy.com/2016/03/mexican-fisherman-parable Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 121.
0:04.2	Happy, smart, and useful by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org
0:08.3	and a reminder from the Mexican fishermen by JayMoney of budgetsorsexy.com.
0:30.0	What's going on, oldies? Welcome to Whole for OLD, which stands for Optimal Living Daily.
0:38.7	I'm your host and personal reading assistant Justin Mollick and is another edition of Sivers
0:45.3	Sunday. But I have a special little twist on it because I'll be reading a short post from
0:49.4	JayMoney of budgetsorsexy.com as a little bonus and you'll see why in just a bit.
0:55.2	First, if you want to hear from me personally every once in a while, here what's going
0:59.2	on in my life plus some life tips and a bunch of free stuff and show me that you enjoy
1:04.3	this free service I'm providing for you, please join my weekly newsletter. It's super easy,
1:09.8	just text the word Optimal to the number 444222. Or if you want to do it through the
1:14.5	web, you can visit me online at oldpodcast.com and join there for free.
1:21.4	So back to Sivers Sunday and this bonus post from JayMoney. A little while ago Jay emailed
1:26.8	me and actually recommended that I read this parable on the show and I told him that I
1:31.1	do indeed love that parable but it's a little short so I'd have to find another post of
1:36.2	his to read along with it. And by chance, Derek Sivers references this exact same parable
1:42.8	of the Mexican fisherman in his post. So I thought perfect, I'll read these together instead
1:49.1	of two kind of unrelated posts. So that's the story behind this and I hope you enjoy
1:54.4	both. So now let's start optimizing your life.
2:00.3	Happy Smart and Useful by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org. There are three things to consider
2:08.7	when making life decisions. What makes you happy, what's smart, long term good for you,
2:15.1	and what's useful to others. We have a tendency to forget one of these. For example, smart
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