That is awesome. Thanks for sharing.

“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

Now, Emerson hits hard and you def don't have to agree with this statement. But it is always how I feel when I travel. From 2020-2022 we went to the Maldives, Athens, Jamaica, Mexico. Don't get be wrong, its fun, you learn about the world, and you make memories that will last forever.

But he also mentions in a later paragraph about how modern men are scared of duty. I think about that word a lot now. What is my duty, mission or vision? Can it be accomplished by traveling all the time? For me, no. I will be that typical guy that takes one big vacation a year and I'm completely ok with that.

My duties and responsibility are growing by the day and it makes me feel powerful.

Goals:

-Sell my home and buy a way bigger home. Achieve this by getting 2.5x what I paid for it and dumping into a new smaller mortgage. Hopefully going from $380k to $280k -Continue the relentless focus on my income

I started a social media endeavour a few months back, I had no idea what to do, so I decided that seeing as I wash up everyday, I'd do something along those lines,

It's fluid and I've meandered between asmr, music added, fast edit, slow edits and the next thing will just naturally come to me,

I would like to monetize my channels, so, I'm told consistency is key, it really doesn't matter what you do, just keep doing it!

A lot of my viewers are from South Asia, and it got me thinking, some of those billion strong people have no access to mains water, so watching a guy wash up a pan in a creative, edited way could be quite engaging,

And I have to say, billions of people are just bored and want a distraction from the impending doom of life 🫣

So that's my financial plan to create a side income, potential passive income if the older videos get picked up in the future and keep creating the gains,

It's all about the gains 💪

This is a very small and packed Personal Finance post. I'll go by your paragraphs.

1. Embracing Unexpected Change.

When I worked for Best Buy embracing change was one of the programming techniques they used to train employees. It sounds like wisdom but it's all about dealing with the corporation moving according to the market demands. It is good advice and without goals for your personal life it is meaningless gibberish. If you have personal goals embracing change means, "Prepare for rough seas while heading to your destination."

2. I have a history with the Thai Forest Monk tradition. I study Buddhism. I would not want to raise a child in Thailand. There is a lot of moral relativism there and i'll just leave it at that.
3. Congratulations on becoming a father! The Buddha has stated that if you could carry your parents on your shoulders for 1,000 years it would not be enough to return the favor of giving the gift of human life.
4. There is a mural near my house with cosmic moons and stars and colors and it says, "dream". This reminds me of the movie, They Live, which is an allegory for the controller class verses us regular plebs. Taking the bull by the horns is good except we are in the great year of Pisces and the previous great year was Taurus. A great year is about 26,000 years. We are heading to the Age of Aquarius so what is interesting here is that humans have been tracking time for that long! A notable aspect of this tracking is that in 60,000 years humans have also been working on MIND CONTROL and if you don't work on self mastery you are part of someone else's game. The term Swami comes to mind and there is a "Swa - self + mi - master". If you don't have any goals it's because you are a slave, asleep, and it's time to wake up.
5. Ignore contemporary society. It's a psychological operation against you. One of my favorite books of all time is GOALS! by Brain Tracy. He knows what he is talking about. I bought the Audio and Paperback book in 2003. You can probably find it for free as a PDF. Dreams are sold to us to keep us in the Right Brained prison of relative reality. Self master is not what the controllers want. They want you to do things that you ARE KARMICALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR by relinquishing your responsibility to them which is IMPOSSIBLE.
6. I haven't used Bitrefil, but I've been using FOLD and another one and stack sats. I have for about 3 years. I've written down my sat goals too, but they must be reviewed constantly. Brain Tracy suggests that you must write down your goals by hand. This is powerful. I have kept hand written journals since 1984. Mostly they were nonsense written about nonsense. I have to constantly remind myself to write about solutions! When I do this things happen that I welcome.
7. Seven is a very nice number. The polar star has changed over time but there are seven stars of the Little Dipper, Ursa Minor.

My financial goals are to remove my fiat debt. Get rid of rent seeking services. Educate myself on Bitcoin more. Increase my skill set which always finds payment. Write here at Stacker News. Fix my shitty blog that I've ran for 25 years and have paid way to much to services that always close, fold or sell to someone else.

My financial goal is to stack sats, too! My financial goal is also to pay attention to people like you who inspire me to move ahead and work also!