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I dragged my heavy butt out of the hotel yesterday and back to the homestead... Which on the surface might seem like a huge win.. FREEDOM BABY! After all... I did spend 56 hours in a hospital followed by 2 additional days in a hotel... But I was freaking out inside. Like totally stressed... My wife (bless her soul) worked her butt off to get the house an allergy free zone... Yet, part of me was worried my house would trigger another asthma attack. Which is crazy because we have lived here for 15 months now and nothing like this had ever happened before. Maybe it was my limiting beliefs... Or the doctors warning me to watch for "environmental factors." Basically saying my own house might try to kill me again. So I'm standing at my front door. Hand on the knob. Heart beating like crazy. I take a deep breath... and push the door open. Then I wait for doom. For the wheezing to start. For my lungs to shut down. But guess what? Nothing happened! Not only did I NOT have an attack, I could actually breathe better than before! I walked around touching stuff. Smelling things. Taking deep breaths like a weirdo. Sat outside in the sunshine and watched the chickens, horses, goats, and kids play for like 3 straight hours (even got a sunburn) The whole time I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop... For my body to betray me... But it never came. By bedtime, I was breathing clearer than I had in months. Followed by the best night of sleep I've had in months... So as I am sitting here trying to get back to normal life, it hit me... We build up these monster fears in our minds. We create worst-case scenarios that almost never happen. Our brains are like little fear factories working overtime. They manufacture terror from nothing. (now I do want to be sensitive because health issues are no joke--take your health conditions serious and trust your instincts) But I'm reminded of how often this happens in business too.... We imagine all the ways things could go wrong.

So I just wrapped up a 56 hour "vacation" at the local hospital. And by vacation, I mean being poked, prodded, and woken up every hour by nurses who seemed genuinely shocked I was still alive each time. From swollen lungs, to 02% levels at 80% (normal is about 97% and 86% is get your butt to the ER before you pass out and go into cardiac shock) to white blood cell counts 13,000x higher than average to fight this allergen... it's been wild to say the least! And the food?... Let's just say hospital jello should be classified as a war crime under the Geneva Convention. Anyway, don't be scared for me... Now that we know what this was and why it happened. We already have a plan to make sure it doesn't happen again in the future! The next few days I'll be living in a hotel continuing to monitor my lungs and oxygen levels on my own before returning to the environment that triggered this all... HOME. So that's the basic update for where I've been the last few days. But here's the lesson in all this – while I was lying there, questioning my life choices and wondering if that beeping sound would ever stop, something magical was happening. My business didn't care that I was down for the count. Sales notifications kept pinging on my phone. Leads kept flowing in. Money kept landing in my account. The nurse actually asked if I was some kind of drug dealer because I kept smiling at my phone despite having an IV in my arm. (I assured her it was legal, though the profit margins are surprisingly similar.) This wasn't luck or magic. It was systems. Systems that kept working while I was busy trying to convince the hospital staff that no, I really don't need pain medication, no, I don't think the gown "brings out my eyes." and no, I'm not staying another day... You see... Most people build businesses that are actually just elaborate traps they've set for themselves. Businesses that collapse the second they step away. Digital prisons that require constant attention. Meanwhile, smart business owners build systems that work harder than they do.

So my oldest daughter, Jaya turns 9 on Friday! And last week when my wife asked her what she wanted for her birthday she said a “bottle baby goat” Now for those of you that are unfamiliar with the goat farming world a bottle baby is literally a goat that you have to bottle feed 4 times a day because they can’t feed themselves yet. So when she asked, we did what any sane parents would do and we told her no… Besides, no one has babies during the middle of the harsh Wyoming winter! (Unless it happens by accident) So here’s where it gets good… One of the BEST goat farmers in all of Wyoming just so happened to have an accidental breeding! So yesterday my wife and I left at 8:30am and set out to battle the 75+ mph wind gusts and the blowing snow to pick up an 11 day old bottle baby goat located across Wyoming about 5 hours away! And around 8:30 pm last night we finally made it back home to surprise our daughter… It was a special moment to say the least and the crazy day was well worth it! But here’s the point… All of this was only possible because I am my OWN BOSS. Well, my wife is the boss technically but that’s a story for another day ;) Anyway, I didn’t have to request time off or use a vacation day… We didn’t have to try and rush there and back… We could take our time and battle the elements at our own pace while actually getting to ENJOY THE MOMENT FULLY! It was a full on adventure that we will remember for the rest of our lives! And now today we were able to take it slow and figure out life with a diaper wearing, bottle drinking, baby goat living in the house with us… Look, this type of life doesn't require you to be “rich” and you don’t need to be a millionaire.. But you do need to have a job where YOU make the rules… One where not only do you make the rule but you also have the ability to earn passive income no matter what you’re doing. And maybe it's not goats and homesteading for you like it is us.. Maybe it's traveling the world or the ability to homeschool your kids.

If you are caught DM people in this community trying to sell them things you will immediately be permanently banned. Also, if you are receiving strange DM's please immediately let me know so me or an admin can ban that user. I do apologize to all who have been approached by scammers/sales people from other communities trying to sell you on their services. We are working to get some admin in place to keep this to a minimum as we grow. Thank you for your patience! -Josh