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Today, I am going to be talking about how to escape the rat race. I'm going to teach you the first step to getting free from the rat race and to be creating the actual life that you want to

that is much more free. And what we need to understand is that we live in a world that is

dominated by consumerism. And if we're being honest, we have all, you and I have been raised

in it our entire lives. So we have been, whether it was consciously

or unconsciously brainwashed to be a consumerist, to consume, to want more, to constantly

be wanting more stuff and things. And it's like the idea, I think is the Buddhist call,

it's like the hungry ghost, right? You could feed a ghost, but it's just going to go through them

and they're going to continue to be hungry.

Never going to fill up a ghost because it's just going to fall on the floor.

You know, we have been taught to constantly want more and more and more.

And I have been caught up in this in my life as well.

I came to the realization at about 32 years old that the first 32 years

in my life were really focused on how can I make money. And the reason why I wanted to make money

was because we didn't have money when I was a kid. My father's an alcoholic. And I saw that there

was lack of what felt like safety being around him. And I thought to myself, well, money will give me safety.

And so I started trying to make money

and started making that like my number one focus in life.

Obviously I wanted to be happy and I wanted to be fulfilled

and all those things.

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