Joys of J (ep.21)
🚐 What New Company Has My Attention
What if Your Home Could Be Mobile, but Also You Could Park It?
“A new way to live and work wherever you want without giving up relationships or the comforts of home. For less than the cost of living in a studio apartment, we give you a top-of-the-line Sprinter Van, a network of home bases across the West, essential groceries and provisions, wi-fi and an inclusive, adventurous community — everything you need to live an extraordinary life. Don’t shelter in place, shelter any place.”
This pandemic has exposed and expedited a lot of trends that were already in motion.
One in particular being our generations’ clear lack of interest in rushing to get our hands on house keys that tie us down to one place. A lot of factors going into this, of course, that being that we are delaying marriage and kids far beyond that of previous generations which are usually the factors that lead to higher propensities to convert on a home. In addition, the millennial generation appreciates and values fluidity, experiences, and COMMUNITY. So no surprise to see companies like Kibbo emerging and paving the way for a new style of living that provides both a moving roof to access and experience different environments whilst also fostering community programming and building throughout.
With that said, will be interesting to see what happens as "this year, the largest section of millennials will turn 30, entering what has been deemed prime homeownership years” and that coupled with remote working indefinitely could change the tides for more affordable ownership outside of metro areas.
🤔 Some of My Additional Thoughts
Why should we have to lock our lives into just ONE place on this big beautiful planet..And with that said, why too should we miss out on the financial opportunity and benefits for home ownership because we don’t necessarily want to commit to the conventional baby boomers’ generation of living.
What if I could own a fraction of multiple homes throughout the country (and world) as I do ownership in a company where each fulfills me and my future family in ways that one cannot. This ability to own fractions of homes as investments in your portfolio shared with friends or others of similar mindsets becomes a win, win as it gives many of us the financial opportunity to enter the ownership game whilst not having to commit a huge chunk of our funds into one home and one place.
I’ll let Cody Anderson take it away from here… 🎤 #FO
🎙️ What Podcast Episode Has Got Me Thinking
Not my first Ryan Holiday shout and surely not my last.
In recent years I’ve become particularly interested in Stoicism as it resonates quite well with my natural outlook on life.. Being that, this life is not comprised of all day sunshine and rainbows.. and in fact, quite the opposite. Life is full of obstacles, challenges, suffering, and pain and the only thing we can control, is how we observe and react to these stressors. And how we choose to respond impacts all those around us as we live in a world in which everything and everyone is densely and complexly connected. Nothing in our lifetimes thus far has shown us this to the degree that this pandemic has. And so, a philosophy established nearly 24 centuries ago very much so stays relevant to our species as humans as we still want all the same things (shelter, food, security, respect, love, a sense of meaning) and are afraid of the same things (poverty, shame, disease, death).
Ryan Holiday — How to Use Stoicism to Choose Alive Time Over Dead Time (#419)
“If you’re feeling angry, ask yourself, is anger productive? 90% of the time anger makes things worse.”
“We’re out of this in a year, to some extent so how you set yourself up to look back and say …wow I’m so glad we had that time in a sense because it allowed me ABC as opposed to I didn’t realize that was going to be so valuable in so many ways and I was blind to it at the time.”
“How do you make the next 3-6 months something you look back upon as a sacred time that you really treasure and thrive in not just survive.”
^ This question has been a ruminating in my mind since this all began in March.. Not to say I don’t have my days (many I might add) where I’m simply surviving and debilitated by all the uncertainty however, I’ve come to find myself getting better at accepting the shit days for what they are and knowing that tomorrow opens up a new day to thrive or not.. And there’s something to be treasured even on the tough days just by learning to live with them and be gentle with them versus fighting them. That too me is very much still “thriving” as you’re strengthening a mental muscle to accept yourself and how your feeling in that moment. I’ve found this mental re-framing and exercise helps prep my mind just as exercise preps my body to withstand more of the guaranteed suffering to come for all of us.
Amidst the chaos that smacks us in the face each morning, I truly believe there are tremendously positive lessons brewing beneath this all and so I propose to all of us to try to channel your future self and ask them, am I working on the right mental muscle groups? Am I focusing on positive self talk/self love? Am I supporting my loved ones the way they need me to? Am I supporting strangers with understanding and empathy? Am I putting energy towards rebuilding a new America that looks far from the one that got us into this mess? And if you’re like me.. Did I FINALLY unsubscribe from those unnecessary spammy emails that crowded my inbox and did I FINALLY organize my phone apps in relevant folders as I said I always would..? 😂
Books Mentioned During Podcast Episode to Better Equip Yourself to Handle this Pandemic
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
Mastery by Robert Greene
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
📝 What Reading Inspired Me
Thanking Kelsey G. BIG for this share. It’s a special one that I will come back to often.
Grief From The Perspective of An Old Man - Tim Ofield
“As for grief, you’ll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you’re drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of the wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it’s some physical thing. Maybe it’s a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it’s a person who is also floating. For a while, all you can do is float. Stay alive.
In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don’t even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you’ll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out. But in between, you can breathe, you can function. You never know what’s going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything…and the wave comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life.
Somewhere down the line, and it’s different for everybody, you find that the waves are only 80 feet tall. Or 50 feet tall. And while they still come, they come further apart. You can see them coming. An anniversary, a birthday, or Christmas, or landing at O’Hare. You can see it coming, for the most part, and prepare yourself. And when it washes over you, you know that somehow you will, again, come out the other side. Soaking wet, sputtering, still hanging on to some tiny piece of the wreckage, but you’ll come out.
Take it from an old guy. The waves never stop coming, and somehow you don’t really want them to. But you learn that you’ll survive them. And other waves will come. And you’ll survive them too. If you’re lucky, you’ll have lots of scars from lots of loves. And lots of shipwrecks.”
📺 What Show I’m Binging
And another call out for miss Kelsita Gorden on this one.
A beautiful series on Love, Music, and NYC. No stronger a trifecta that speaks to me more.
❤️ What Quote I Love
“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…” — Epictetus, Discourses, 2.5.4–5