Service can be such a misunderstood word for people who want to do work that matters. Most of them are not out there trying to serve you. They are doing what they love, doing it well, and you happen to benefit. That is what I call service through the act of living. When you live the life you actually want to live, you cannot help but create value for other people. It spills over. And that value is what ends up paying for the life. I lived and traveled for nearly ten years in a van that I turned into a livable space. I called it my Mobile Domicile. People always asked me the same question: "How can you afford to travel all the time?" I gave away balloon animals. I did not sell them. I gave them away, and people, on their own, gave back. And just to be transparent, I was not on a mission. I was not out there doing "service." I was living the life I wanted, and the living of it happened to put a smile on somebody's face. Over the years that voluntary income added up to more than half a million dollars. Most of us were taught it the other way around. You serve somebody else's purpose, and you get paid, then, and if you plan it well, or get lucky, you get to live someday. What if we flip the script and start by looking at what you already do, just by being you, that other people value. It is probably closer than you think! That's how you create a Self-Sustaining Life.