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The Tricky Trifecta

Scollurio

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It’s all about the balance in life!

If you boil it down, like a really rich and tasty stew, our materialistic life consists of a trifecta of principles, that every one of us needs to balance one way or another. Those are time, money and health. Everything else, while also important, builds upon the supporting base we construct with those three blocks.

If you read my other articles, you already figured that I’m thinking about things way too much. Just as if I had too much time on my hands. But I really have not. I need to balance my day between the time I spend on different things, the money I have to earn and the health I somewhat have to keep up.

In a best-case-scenario, in my personal life, this may feel like a well done circus trick. In the worst case, it feels like magic trick gone wrong. Let me quickly elaborate…

Life

Sure there are many career-paths nowadays, that open up quite different opportunities to the younger generations (let’s all become Youtube stars). But based on our biology and the foundation our society was built upon, it really boils down to this:

Be born. Grow up quick. Learn skills to make money from. Find a partner. Reproduce to close the circle. Meanwhile, do lots of work and pay taxes. Buy lots of stuff and pay taxes. That money is used to run the

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