Four Lifestyle Design Strategies to Set Your Happiness Free
Want a good life? Free yourself from compromise.
Life is one long trade-off — sacrifice one thing to get another. Almost every route to happiness we pursue today suffers from this problem, especially the good old degree-money-marriage-kids lifestyle recipe.
But no-compromise lifestyle designs do exist. Granted, establishing them is not easy, but once they’re up and running, they provide a reliable stream of happiness without any costly trade-offs.
This article presents the four that added the most value to my life.
1. True Creative Freedom
My #1 lifestyle design strategy is to earn the right to make your living doing something you’d happily do for free. I’ve been enjoying this privileged lifestyle for about two years now, and I can’t recommend it highly enough.
It’s easy to see why this lifestyle is so desirable. After all, the status quo is suffering through a soul-killing 9–5 job to earn enough money to make the suffering worthwhile. Considering how much of our lives we spend working and how hard it is to buy happiness, it’s no wonder we want change.
Unsurprisingly, the internet is full of advice on how to achieve this dream lifestyle. But…
