They say time is fleeting and memories are flirting.
And people go big on time wasted is time you can't get back. And often times these tends to go in the direction of earning money.
Ironic right?
But meaningful experiences are born from spending time with family and friends, which gives birth to memories.
Society is often built on the back of the idea of role playing as adults and often times neglect that inner child within looking to be free again.
Why does adulting have to feel like a prison, where we are all conformed to a pattern of daily routines of duties obliged to reason.
And any disruption on your part from that train of thought can be pegged as treason.
...every morning like clock work to the sound of an alarm.
The mechanical bot invasion begins, rushing out of the house eating little or nothing to beat the commute before the jam.
Sitting in an office doing shit that you hate.
Funny how society measures your level of success with your desktop job, the pile load of paperwork and the benefits.
Old folks and OGs only believe that the only way to work is to work your butt off.
That sort of old thinking still got a lot of millennials in a prism of complete utter bullshit.
Yeah i said it bullshit, cause that's what it is.
Don't get me wrong i'm not saying you shouldn't get a job, but it's not all that.
Working hard is dope, but working smart is the key.
People are too stuck on thinking the same and are afraid to crack open into a new idea.
It's funny even our four walls class room experiences are staged propped to the theme of getting good grades in order get a good job.
And paint the picture that you have to be all A+ grades perfect and no room for failures.
Life isn't wired like that, we learn best when we make mistakes and grow from them.
Even the society that thinks it's best to have good grades and get high paying jobs with astounding benefits, leaves youths graduating from school only to retire at home cause there are only a few jobs hiring in ratio to the million fresh new entries into the labour market.
And the government on the other hand are too busy of not thinking about creating more jobs or monetary stipends to cushion these negating social effects.
We (most of us) are products of our society, but a few tend to think differently. The old way of doing things have been obsolete for a long time, but have become even more visible with the Covid-19 plethora of nightmares.
Be different from the crowd, think outside the box.
Every success story started with a dream and doing things differently.
All who wander are not lost...
Like Robert Kiyosaki would say, JOB is Just over broke.
I was in a seminar a couple of days back, point of discussion thrown around job creation, entrepreneurial drive and multi-level institutions.
On God, my mind wasn't entirely there for i had another place to be.
But there were four keywords i could take away from the seminar, which were good health, cool wealth, design your own lifestyle and freedom.
And i believe every sane minded person would agree.
Being a husband, a wife, a father or a mother doesn't have to take you to a couple of one-way departures of guilt trips.
Where departure times are constrained between having equal balance with providing for the family and ACTUALLY spending time to bond with your family.
Which brings me back to the backdrop of this post, how do you find the equilibrium.
It's all comes down to leverage, and the more of it you got, the better you had be able to balance the scale appropriately.
So what's leverage in this context?
Leverage is having a better advantage at something, less work for more rewards.
With banks ROI yields somewhere between 4.5-5% APY, Treasury Bills, Stock index, Bonds, Mutuals, ETFs and pretty much any other non-blockchain related investment are low.
Cryptocurrencies are creating leverages of many sorts from buying and letting the value appreciation kick in to spots trading of cryptocurrencies or through DeFi tools creating staking opportunities, yields farming, lending cryptocurrency, collateralizing crypto to borrow fiats.
And if you are successfully using the above leverage tools then you might be able to buy more time to bond with your family while your money works for you.
There are a lot of cryptocurrencies with staking capacities out there.
Recently, stakingrewards dubbed Cardano's native coin $ADA as the highest staking cryptocurrency.
I did a previous post on that in my earlier entries if you had love to read more on that, you can click on this link.
Tron network's native token $TRX is another of such crypto currency with staking benefits, and tends to be having a huge adoption in Africa.
There is also Polkadot's native token $DOT sitting second position on the staking rewards charts. Polkadot, with no doubt has some seriously decent white paper vision for the blockchain ecosystem.
Another familiar and highly adopted cryptocurrency for staking is Tezos' native token $XTZ.
Back then i just bought, airdrop claimed, faucet claimed or PTCed my way into different cryptocurrencies and just hodl them for a long period of time to cash in on the gain multiplier in price value appreciation.
And started off my staking journey with $TRX and can attest to a fact you get the rewards.
Over time with faucet claims been able to dabble into $ADA and $XTZ staking... there's one thing i can tell you though, even though i have an idea of how the staking/baking periods take before the rewards starts chipping in, i still feel like it's a long wait.
I guess every new discovery comes with expectations and expectation tends to brew a tiny bit of anxiety.
Will find a way to keep you in the know on how the end of the finish line on that works out.
I'm yet to try out the lending of crypto in exchange for interest yield nodes, probably something i will try sometime in the future.
And another form of leverage can be seen in the use of Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), these are designed to power up decentralized e-commerce and retails platforms.
Like with rarible, i stumbled on it on TrustWallet some days back...it's NFT powered, you can sell or auction your artworks or apparel prints. This is one cookie i can't wait to take a bite out off soon, but the Ethereum gas fee though.
And as the blockchain ecosystem mints literally new blocks everyday more use cases tailored to songs streaming, licensing and merch patenting decentralized protocols are popping up. These are another form of ways artists, musical acts, singers and rappers can use leverage.
Even in the real estate sector new blockchains protocols are popping up everyday or the idea of it is popping up everyday, this is another form of leverage.
Leverage come in different forms, it's left for us to carve out our on thesis to build a purpose to research on.
It all boils down to finding the equilibrium between the 9-5 and the 24 hours mutual bonding with family.
To know more about leverage and how to use leverage do your research.
Narrow paths often lead to beautiful gardens.
... you're welcome to chime in your thoughts on how to find balance between time and memories. The comment boxes below are itching for your words (laughs).
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P.S This post was inspired by an artist new music submission sent to me by Ajada Reigns titled Bye The Time.
Yeah, i did write music reviews, music feature articles and interviews back in the day...well it's still in there somewhere
