Simply put, it’s a place one goes to when it is no longer about quantity of days, but quality of days. "Your WHY will keep you going when you don’t want to."Ī hospice, by its very definition, is a home providing care for the terminally ill. Regrettably, this is not the worst lie of all. Letting go of the lie of what, can actually save your life. It is no wonder that the increase of the national suicide rate escalated to 33% between 19.⁷ It’s now the second-leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 35.⁸ We have been fed the lie of what, a lie that has somehow made us believe spending 50 weeks a year doing something you have to, so you can spend two weeks relaxing, is okay. All of us around the world love what we do so much that some of us get 30 days of paid time off, but not in the United States, where we barely get 17 days (if we’re lucky). ⁶ This is a man who bravely battled depression and has shared his fight with the world. Take Michael Phelps for example, winner of 23 Olympic gold medals, who stated, I am extremely thankful that I did not take my life. ³ He is an entrepreneur with ventures that include Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Mobile, and now, Virgin Healthcare.⁴ He loves what he does so much as an entrepreneur that there is a 74-acre piece of land in the British Virgin Islands, just North of Virgin Gorda, called Necker Island, which he bought.⁵ He purchased an island just to get away and spend time with family and surfing, because he loved what he does for work soooooo much! Is this unique just to him? No, just ask any professional athlete if they want to get back into the gym and train 24/7 once season ends. Sir Richard Branson, Chairman of the Virgin Group, has a net worth that exceeds $4.2 billion. "Do what you love, and the money will follow." NOPE. "Do what you love, and you will never work another day in your life" If how was enough, they would still be alive. So, if it was as simple as just knowing how, we would all be healthy, fit, and rich. Yet year after year, obesity rises, and roughly 300,000 fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters die every year from obesity-related diseases.² All of these ‘hows’ are free information, such as how to work out, what to eat, and when to exercise. ¹ Yet a simple search on how to lose weight and again, the flood gates of ‘how’ take over your screen. Obesity in the United States exceeds 35% for adults. Ask the internet how to become financially free and the flood gates open with articles, videos, and courses on ‘how’. Worse than that, we are given all the answers, shown the exact paths, yet nothing happens. Or that you would not understand.Or the foulest judgment of all: it is not for people like you. Simply search and poof-someone has not only made a video on what to do, but links to the products needed to accomplish it. Almost all of us have a little box in our pocket that holds the entirety of human knowledge within it. We did this the same way we do everything-we asked the internet. So, how does one go from not knowing what the stratosphere is, to seven days later, uploading footage on the internet, showing a successful launch? A mere twenty minutes later, we’d watched a video, ordered supplies, and had a detailed plan laid out before us.Ī week after that, our DIY eye-in-the-sky lifted off into the stratosphere-10 miles up, thanks to two-day shipping and the internet. Sadly, as grown men, the only thing our childish minds could think of was, Dude! How can we send it into space?!Yet there we were, with no training, horrible math skills, and about the same technical knowledge of space flight as a newborn baby. Truly, a marvel of technology and engineering. It was water-proof and shockproof, shot high-resolution video, and it was small enough to fit in your palm. The lie of how.Ī group of us were sitting around one afternoon, and a friend pulled out his newly-purchased action camera. "If I just knew how to do it, I would do it!" Simply put: How? The answer: IGNORE THE LIES. Free from the mounting credit card debt, the never-ending fear of being laid off, and the constant feeling of not being enough. Free from the endless monotony of real life, of rush hour, and scraping by to pay bills. One so bad he barely made it through school, was never expected to break free. This poor kid who hailed from a divorced family, and labeled with a learning disability. Yet at 36, I retired at 37, I became a millionaire and at 38, I was invited to lecture at Yale University.Īlmost every talk of mine begins with that line, and the first question that always comes up is…How?!? Hello, I am Charles Schwartz and I grew up P, as my family could not afford the last three letters of poor. Chapter 1 DESTROYING THE LIES THAT STAND IN YOUR WAY
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