22And He said to His disciples, “(W)For this reason I say to you, do not worry about your life, as to what you will eat; nor for your body, as to what you will put on.

23″For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

24″Consider the (X)ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor (Y)barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!

25″And which of you by worrying can add a single [a](Z)hour to his [b]life’s span?

i’ve seen this with some freeware authors; they give out a product for free, and they have some “customers” who go out of their way to try and pay them some money for their free service/product. so it could be for you.

Gal 2:20

I can’t teach people how to do that though. I simply don’t believe in it.

My son is 1.5 years old and my daughter is 5. I played with both of them for an hour yesterday. No one billed us for it.

For example, what if you just had a baby and you want to devote your full time to your new member of the family . I can see that as one of THE most important things a man can do in a life. Without money you can’t do that in the extent that you would want. You have to pursue making of the money to get to the where you want to be. Yes, you will start devoting your time right now, but you will still have to make money. You will also feel that you are not doing enough and that you should be doing doing more but you can’t because prerequisite of money is missing. And the more and faster you can make it the better. Flip-side is that these two things are opposite yet complimentary.

It is not the money that you want, you want what money allows you to do, or allows you to do *more/better*. I don’t know is this example comparable to the problem Bugiman has, but my experience is that people do not want the money, they want what comes with money. And in lot of the cases there is NO way around the money issue, you have to make it…

My feeling on that is, yes you have to start doing what you really want NOW. Yes, you have to make money and lots of it *if and only if* that is required to achieve what you want. And, yes you have to pursue everything with the passion. You do not want to lay on the death bed thinking: “How did I spend my life pursuing the things that are really not important to me? And the things that were important I did half-assed ”

Identifying what you want is the first thing you do. Then you figure out how to get it. If HOW requires lots of money, then you got to make it, quickly… How you make it is the $1MM question for you Steve

I think you will find nothing but frustration and heartache trying to compare yourself with others and compete with them. To the degree you continue to do that, you’re still stuck in the trap of measuring yourself by other people’s goals. But I don’t think comparing yourself with others is the real problem — that’s just a symptom of something deeper.

You don’t see generating a passive income as much of an accomplishment; others have supposedly gone farther in less time. I’ll bet it’s especially frustrating for you to see people who seem less intelligent or skilled than you who seem to get ahead much farther and faster, such as Yanik Silver.

I can relate to this because years ago I had similar feelings. It was frustrating. But I was able to dump that emotional garbage after it lead me to understand that the reason I wasn’t getting those results too was that deep down, I didn’t actually want them. I didn’t want the results of Yanik Silver. I didn’t want to devote my life to selling video games. I didn’t want to create shallow info products and sell many copies of them just to be “rich and successful.” I didn’t want to become a millionaire if it meant I had to compromise my values to do so. It was really strange, but I had to admit to myself that I really just didn’t care all that much about money. I was conditioned to think that I should be working to maximize profits, but eventually I discovered that this type of thinking just wasn’t me.

But nor did I want to live a life of abject poverty and go live in a cave. What I really wanted was to devote my life to learning and growing and sharing ideas with others. That was too big a leap for me to take all at once. Eventually though, I was able to change everything and let go of the socially conditioned quest for cash and instead start really living. Right now I’m doing the same thing I’d be doing if I was a millionaire or a billionaire or dead broke: learning and growing and sharing ideas. Money can only alter the context, not the purpose.

Money, a house, a car — what is it really? It’s all just dust. What does it matter to become a millionaire, a billionaire, or be broke? If you live in a state of fear and scarcity, those things really matter. But there comes a point where you can get past fear. Money still plays a role, but it’s a very minor one.

Ask yourself what you would do if you had unlimited cash right now. Then find a way to start doing that now, instead of waiting until you have a stockpile of cash or trying to play catch-up with others. You’ll never catch them — that’s the whole point. You’re not supposed to catch them; you’re supposed to realize the futility of trying to work for money instead of going straight towards what you think that money will get you.

Find a way to bring what you really want into your life right now, even if it’s in just a small way. Pursuing money and success as ends in themselves will only increase your frustration.