Hi My name is Tony Recluse and I’m a Slacker. I work just hard enough to maintain a simple minimalist lifestyle. Ambition and motivation to rise and grind is in my humble opinion overrated. Here at my blog and other works I will go over why we need to just chill. No stress on your heart just breathe. From our earliest moments we are told to hustle and work harder than the next guy. We learn later how to be political on the level of social situations. Everything becomes about getting ahead and at minimum not falling behind.
Due to early trauma I checked out early on as well. Why worry about getting honor roll if I could die tomorrow? I did learn that I needed only get a 65 to pass my classes. So keeping this in mind I didn’t take the first two quarters seriously. by the third and especially the fourth I was an honor roll student just to catch up. In hindsight in wasn’t a great strategy. I would have been easier to coast through year round.
As an adult I’ve worked multiple jobs and getting into the rat race climbing the corporate ladder was a mistake. The stress and lack of sleep being under paid on salary because I was paying my dues, wreaked havoc on both my physical and mental health.
Now, years later I live a life of relative calm. I work over 40 hours a week but I get paid for every one of those hours. My home is a studio with everything I need. Being within a few miles of my job I ride a bike daily. That same bike I took on a sabbatical tour of Florida. Its a life of simplicity. From time to time I will Go into deep detail on a simpler, slacker lifestyle contrary to the dog eat dog world.
