Virtualize your life
For us, virtualisation is about doing more with less. It saves time, money, and bolsters your health by minimising the routines and burdens you carry in your life. It helps you take full advantage of the opportunities today’s world has to offer. Embracing virtualisation results in more time and exponentially more opportunities to pursue what is important to you.
The first thing is to let go
We’re living amidst an explosion of technology-empowered services that make life easier. At the same time, consumerism has reached its peak. We spend countless amounts of money on products that don’t last long and we could live without. We often find it hard to let go of the old, but rather try new services as an add-on, unable to make them a constant part of our lives.
Virtualization is about carefully considering what you want in your life, and carefully planning what you spend your time on. Everything else can be left out of the equation by means of automatisation, outsourcing, and simply leaving out as a priority.
It can be as simple as saving on weekly commuting hours, and instead working from home. It’s about choosing to have an online meeting instead of the traditional face-to-face meeting to save time. It’s about replacing that second car with a mobility service that best fits your needs. All of this is empowered by technology. We have a never-ending array of tools to redesign our life in order to have a minimum amount of hassle.
Only then can you maximise output
When you virtualize your life, you maximise your own ability to give. Technology makes it possible for anyone to fulfill their dreams much faster than just a few years ago. We just haven’t accepted that what used to be a dream that would’ve taken a lifetime to pursue, can now often be pursued in months or years, sometimes even immediately.
To maximise your own output in the virtualized world, you need to package your skillset in a way that makes it more valuable. Then, maximise output by grasping the technology-empowered opportunities you have access to: anyone can now invest in almost any instrument. Anyone can publish a book, found a video-channel, or sell their crafts globally. Often, maximising your output means having multiple roles and multiple endeavours, instead of just one 9-to-5. At best, this results in multiple income streams and a more exciting life.
Beware of your demons
But virtualization is also about not giving a f*ck about whether your car is as good as the neighbours’, unless that’s what’s important to you. It’s about not automatically reserving that holiday, unless that’s what you and your family truly want. A lot of the life we live is driven by our egos, and the ego only sees what our peers are doing. It doesn’t understand that the possibilities in a virtualized world are endless.
And this may be the hardest part - to believe, understand, and trust in a virtual world where any one of us can achieve anything.
