Life and living: your reason for financial freedom

10 days in Perth.

Beautiful houses along the Swan river and East Perth.

Cool temperate weather with cooling breezes tickling your face.

Walking around in 18 degrees temperate with the sun shining brightly.

This is life. This is living.

Western Australia has LAND!
Western Australia is four thousand times the size of Singapore with a population of around 1.5 million people spread out in a huge area. You will find yourself walking along the jogging/cycling trails and only meeting the occasional jogger and cyclist compared to the mass of humanity that is uniquely Singapore.

This is life. This is living.

What is the dream that drives you?
I have talked about what drives you in your quest for financial freedom. Why do you want to work so hard to earn that money. What will the money do for you? That is the crux of your reason for striving for and sustaining your efforts in being financially disciplined to work or run a business, live within your means and accumulate savings into prudent investments that yield you a lifetime of passive income to sustain your standard of living.

It has to be worth it!
My Perth trip has opened up my eyes to what living can be about. Our little red dot has all the modern conveniences, 24x7x365 buzz of noise-activity-sound that packs all the excitement as well as all the stress that comes with modern living. Now, more than ever, I realise my dream is to own a piece of property near water or parkland, to be able to enjoy a temperate climate, to have a balanced life with work-family-leisure to see what standard of living my passive income and get for me. It is to live a healthy lifestyle, jogging, cycling or walking along meandering parks and trails, the sounds of the parkland whispering its alluring song of serenity and peace, of being able to be at peace with yourself and your environment. To know that all your efforts in deferring current consumption for future investment that yields future perpetual cash flows is all worth it!

A trip overseas sometimes helps us to put into perspective what is important in life and why. What would you own trip bring you?

Be well and prosper.