OFI 1164: Quiet Desperation No More! | Rural America Is Our Walden

Off-Farm Income

I woke up this morning and was immediately inspired by a YouTube clip profiling many of the motivational things that Joe Rogan has said on his podcast. You can watch the clip here.

This took me down a path of thinking and really got me thinking about the deeper meaning of what we are trying to do by searching for this elusive, rural and agricultural lifestyle. So, today I went down the philosophical path (as much as I am capable of doing that).

Here are my notes from this morning:

• Thoreau - Walden
• Hunting camp - save up vacation time to go live like native Americans did for a one week period
• Clip from Joe Rogan (put link in post)
• Easier to take chances when you are young
• Harder when you are older with more responsibility.
• Story about not being able to leave his job because of lifestyle
• My story about taking one risk and having one shot because of my age and responsibility.
• Do the math on investing early (use the investment calculator)
• Joe Rogan quote about planting the seed of an idea and nurturing it until it turns into something.
• The rut of traffic, followed by a soul sucking job followed by traffic followed by escaping into the television. Followed by overbuying to self medicate and being pushed harder into the rut.
• One of my favorite streams of revenue is selling eggs and I literally make no money.

https://youtu.be/u4taz6dfPQc