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    I remember waking up from the alarm clock on my phone, and I remember immediately taking the pillow I was resting my head on and proceeding to smash it against the headboard of my bed in anger..........So starts another Monday at work.  
    Do any of you feel this way when you wake in the morning?  Do any of you feel this way as you head out to some movie you don't want to see, with a man/woman who is costing you money you don't have, only to then go home later then you wanted and sleep later then you wished?  Why do we do this to ourselves.  
    Every day, I drive around town in one of the most expensive cities in the world, and I think about the fact that there are close to 10 million people who live here.  So my question to myself is this.  How the f*ck do all these god damn people afford to live in such a place?  One theory my fiancé had regarding the real estate and home ownership thoughts in my head was that maybe a large percentage of occupied homes today in Los Angeles and the surrounding cities are being lived in by people who have been there for decades.  So, in other words, their family bought the home in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and they simply passed it onto their loved ones.  And so, even though it may be valued at $500,000 plus, the occupants of the home may be making minimum to average wages because their family owns the home with no mortgage. (plus there is the thought that some go 10 deep in their homes and share the costs)  
    My friend Abomb contributes many of the theories of managing the high cost of living to appropriate budgeting.  As he told me, you would be amazed at what a tight budget can do, and amazed at how a person can get by in this place if you really put some serious thought into truly being cost effective in your daily living.
    As usual, my biggest argument (speaking as a guy who was born in New York) was that this actually made me mad at myself for "settling" for average, and not wanting more out of my life and striving for more success, along with much loftier goals to set and achieve.
    Which brings me back to the morning frustration of waking to another Monday spent getting ready for 8 hours of work..... even though important work.......but nonetheless work I wish I was no longer doing.    
    Interesting how, while many of us are out there hustling every day to live check to check, there are others who are working at minimum wage, working part time, or straight up unemployed and yet still meet their expenses, eat every day, and have a roof over their head..................hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.  I guess what I'm saying is this...............If you are going to just "get by" and "maintain" in order to survive in this competitive world that we live in, then why not struggle while doing what you love, or struggle while working on doing something that you love.  
    I can't talk enough about following your heart, soul and passion.  Some people say that a man is only as good as his word.  Well about this.  Why be so truthful and honest to others each day, and yet at the same time be lying to yourself about what makes you happy and about doing only what you feel you had to in order do to survive. We are all worth so much more then this.