Do you enjoy your time wherever you are? If not, maybe you have to much people, noise and visuals that aren’t helping you with progress in life.

Whatever you listen to, whatever you read and most importantly whatever you see has either negative or positive effects on how you understand the world.

Your reason that is built into you from start can be so noisy with other things that you are not able to distinguish what is good for your life and what is not.

Stop listening to crappy advices from friends, stop listening to crappy radio, stop reading crappy magazines, stop making your opinions on reading headlines, stop watching poor television shows and most importantly start being critical about everything you read, see and hear on the internet.

Conquer your own mind, give advices to others based solely on what you truly know and make yourself heard only when it is absolutely needed.

It’s all about rebooting your mind to things and reload them carefully into your mind by being critical to how you run it. Too much things will mess you up or make you slow on everything, instead of being faster on certain things.

Your hardware can not be upgraded as computers, but you have the ability to detach all things that you do not really need. Maybe you need to start this moment?

What would you choose to be or have if you got one thing or ability for the rest of your life?

This thing will be constantly renewed or the ability will be attached to you until your death. There is no way to get it off or take it away. Those are the rules.

It can be something that is not touchable, it could be a feeling, a thing or an ability. Basically it can be anything you ever imagined. It’s like Aladdin with the Genie, but you only got one wish forever.

Release your imagination and choose wisely.

What would it be?

I am standing outside on my parents porch, looking out on the fjord that we are so blessed to have in our sight.

I am getting into the thoughts of what we truly need in our life, what is it that makes us happy and what makes us do all the things we do everyday as I stand there watching everything move in the delightful summer breeze.

I look up as I hear a commercial airplane passing over the house, I can see the red nose and state to myself what airline it is. I look at it as it pass over the fjord and behind the mountains, I think of how lucky they are to see the mountains in this beautiful weather from that view.

I see a boat buzzing across the fjord in high speed, as I watch it it hits me that I do not need to buy a boat to experience it, with my sight and mind I am able to be satisfied.

I see suddenly birds flying in the garden and I realize there is no need for me to have birds caged inside my house. I am starting to connect the dots that not everyone need to have what is already there.

My mind travels into the economic perspective of it and I realize that with my online firm I do not need to have a car, to live in a connected city and all I need is a local store I find reasonable food prices.

I do not need a car because I rarely need to travel anywhere and most importantly I get all my postage delivered/picked up at the door (or can be arranged for a reasonable price).

I do not need the interconnection you find in a city with stores, training facilities and a thriving pool of people to be happy. I find happiness by my sole existence and that God has helped me find another compatible existence where we are the fountain for all the need of being truly connected. God is our river and source.

For the future of food I like the idea of a store that bring me goods with the payment of some of my goods converted into exchangeable money. For the future I have the possibility to start my own limited food production for personal use with easy things as potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers etc.

In reality I do not need anything that is manmade of others, but sometimes I want what others have made in exchange for what my hands have accomplished.

Wealth is you. Wealth is knowing yourself. Wealth is being alive and God is the source of our happiness.

Have you ever wondered how much it cost to run a seller business in Norway?

I know how much it cost and I thought it would be wise to share this with the world, I don’t know the details of other countries, but I can give you some numbers and examples that are 100% true if you ever consider running a reseller business here.

We all know tax payments, fees and all that, but most people don’t really get how much work it really is to run something with a reasonable profit. So let me give you a full detailed example.

Importing goods from China to Norway and resell it to a customer in Norway

As a businessman you are, you look at some cheap products in China and chooses to import 100 pieces of 15 USD radio with functions of a radio selling for 50 dollars in the current market. This ends up being 1500 USD (this including shipping).

The package arrives at the border (Norway) and the customs will take on its legal right to VAT of 25%. This VAT is returned to you upon selling it to the customer.

Let’s say you want to compete in the current market and you price your 15 USD radio to 45 USD, slightly lower than the 50 USD that the others have. A nice profit you imagine it will give you.

In the end you end up selling 90 radios for 45 USD each, there was also 10 radios not working or returned because of manufacturing errors (these are 15 USD x 10 = 150 USD in losses).

45 USD – 15 USD = 30 USD in earnings per radio sold.

30 USD x 90 = 2700 USD in earnings for 90 radios.

2700 USD – 150 USD = 2550 USD in total earnings (100 pieces including losses).

So you sit back and think you’ve made a good profit, but you haven’t started with taxes yet.

We have to take away sales tax of 25% of the 2550 USD. This sales tax ends up being 2550 – 20% = 2040 USD. The other sales tax (when imported) is also withdrawn in this example.

So you are now 2040 USD richer? No, there is more taxes than a simple sales tax.

We as everyone else got a corporate income tax, so when you are earning money you have to pay 28% of your earnings in the corporation/firm before they are released to the company account.

2040 USD – 28% = 1468,8 USD in corporate income.

OK. Now my profits are looking not that impressive anymore, is there more taxes?

Yes.

You’ve just paid the corporate tax, which means you can freely spend the money inside the firm on investments and such, but if you want to take out a salary (for personal food, electrical bills and stuff) then there’s two ways to get your payment.

1. You pay another 28% tax on the 1468,8 USD, resulting in a payout of 1057,54 USD in actual earnings for your personal wallet. All taxes paid!
2. You take out the money as a original salary. This meaning that the “firm” (which in this case is yours) pay another 14,1% salary tax and 2% (minimum) pension tax/investment on your behalf. 1468,8 USD – 14,1% = 1261,7 USD in payout before income tax.

If you earn around 200 000 NOK (36400 USD) then your income tax will be 22% of the whole income. Resulting into 1261,7 USD – 22% = 984,13 USD in actual earnings for your personal wallet. All taxes paid!

If you earn around 400 000 NOK (72800 USD) then your income tax will be 32% of the whole income. Resulting into 1261,7 USD – 32% = 857,96 USD in actual earnings for your personal wallet. All taxes paid!

With way number 1 you loose all pension rights on your income and you pay more taxes if you got a low income. This option is only good for those earning more than a normal salary (Norwegian salary).

With way number 2 you get all rights to pension savings on your income and your income is taxed with your level of income (meaning low income gives lower taxes, but normal income gives 36% income tax). So this option is for those earning less than a normal income.

So basically your risk of 1500 USD investment, turning it into a 2550 USD earnings without calculating any costs around storage, heating, time usage, office tools etc. You end up with a maximum of 1057,54 USD in your pocket with no pension rights and no cost estimate on storage and time usage spent selling these. That is for you to decide if starting anything around here is worth it.

Would you start up a company here? Is your country as bad as mine?

Have you been in a situation where you’ve set a goal for something to do and set certain rules to how it should be done?

Well, you’ve probably tasted reality with your plan to do something that didn’t go as you intended, so maybe you found no point in keeping the continuance persistent?

I am here to make you realise that what has happened so far in your path is exactly where you need to be to understand and learn why this has happened.

It is a simple learning by doing principle, where you learn from the good, right and wrong doings that are unchangeable.

I for instance run this note to be thankful for something each day for a year, where I outlined that I was going to do 1 note each day. What happened? Life happened, reality came upon me, memory loss and time issues, yet I am still here with my persistent continuance, because I know that in the end all my failures kept me going and not to cave in.

Life change plans. Live life and reconfigure your plans…

Start doing what you were supposed to do tomorrow, get things out of your way and be free of weighty responsibilities.

Be creative, find new ways, think and use all of you to get it done once and for all. Then start do what you really wanted with your life.

I myself need to do some legal paperworks, a lot of stock management of my goods and rebuild a new online shop for my company to coherce with a new accounting system.

I need to get busy, so that I can start getting busy with more things that matters in my life. Start today!

All of your negative thoughts, all of your undone things you’ve been layering onto yourself for years and years. It’s time to get the layers off and start being a better person, for yourself.

What do cats do best?

Now, what can you learn from them? Relax, don’t make haste before it is absolutely needed. Take time to enjoy life, sit outside, close your eyes to the sun and breathe the fresh air and smile!

Wake up extra early next morning to see the sunrise in your own city with someone or just bring yourself with some snacks and breathe deeply…