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The First Rule of Running Club

The first rule of running club is, if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball... Wait, no, that's the movie Dodgeball.

The first rule is there are no rules.

For reals though, it's a come and go as you please club.  There's no cost, and no requirement.  Show up, run, have a beer.  Chat, mix, and mingle.

So far I've gone twice.  I'm enjoying it.  One of the running club peoples has this wild and crazy idea that I'll meet the love of my life there.  I think it's a fun idea, but not practical.

I mean, we're all wearing run garb, and we're all sweaty.  And then we're all standing around having beer after in our run garb sweaty and what not.

Not sure how love could possibly form out of that.  Most people when they meet are all dolled up and decked out.

But hey I'm open to anything I guess.

My thing is... I'm mostly just wasting time.  I'm not really expecting to meet anyone special until I move to an entirely new area.  That's the way love goes.  You gotta change your life a complete 180 in order to meet someone.  I don't know why that is but that's just the way it is.

Right now I'm focused on cutting costs, and increasing re-investment to my surf income fund.

I was reading an article the other day on people who retired under 40... They all did the same thing, they lowered their standard of living, or kept it the same, while their income climbed.

Instead of climbing the lifestyle, you keep the lifestyle static.  Then reinvest the income to produce more income, and as the income climbs, you keep reinvesting it more and more, and the income climbs more... But you don't spend anymore money than you were spending previously.

Basically my goal is to do music and writing and acting and everything creative full time.  And who care if I make any money at it or ever become successful because I'm making enough money to sustain my meager lifestyle from my investments alone.

Anyway so right now my surf salary is still low... 272 bucks a month, but I'm determined to get it over 300 in the next few months.  I'm also determined to do activities that don't add much to my monthly costs, like running club on Thursdays.  Or open mics on Wednesdays.  Or Starbucks and the gym.

But as that number climbs above 300 and then 400, I will just keep reinvesting it into income generating investments, the more I make, the more I invest and in turn, the more I make.

Because I don't intent to increase my living standard.  If anything I want to scale down, and continue to figure out how to spend even less and less while figuring out how to increase my income more and more.  Ideally I'd like it where I'm living off my investments and only spending half my investment income and reinvesting the other half so that my half investment income keeps going up because half is being reinvested which increases the half that I'm not investing back in.

So, for now, I run with running club, and waste time until I move somewhere new and start a new life going to acting gigs and trying to play shows and write books and try to make movies and all that good creative stuff.