Life: It's a Trip: A Brief Manual on Happiness, Success and Entrepreneurship

By Rasheed Hooda

This is a book for the person who's tired of "stop trading time for money" content made for 28-year-olds. It's for the corporate professional in their 40s or 50s who's quietly Googling "how to work less and make more," "start over at 50," or "non-traditional income for midlife" at 11pm and hoping there's a real person on the other end of the search results - not a guru, not a stage, just someone who's actually lived it.

You'll walk away with a different relationship to three things: time, money, and who you actually are underneath the job title. You'll learn why your mess - the detours, the false starts, the "failures" - was never wasted. It was positioning you. Your mess with age becomes your message.

Nothing ever goes to waste. Not even the parts that felt like waste at the time.

I'm Rasheed Hooda. I used to twist balloons for $50 an hour and apologize for charging that much. Today I charge $150 for the first hour alone - same balloons, same hands, different belief about what I was worth. Somewhere between those two numbers is everything I know about making money without hustle, reinventing yourself after 50, and building a bridge income that actually lets you leave the corporate grind behind.

This isn't a retirement book, and it isn't a get-rich-quick book. It's a midlife reinvention guide for people who did everything right - built the career, hit the income, checked the boxes - and still feel like they're living someone else's life.

Inside, you'll find the real stories behind the philosophy:

The Monday night at a dead restaurant that taught me people don't pay for balloons - they pay for how you make them feelThe wallet I "lost" at a truck stop that found its way back to me the same day my brother passed away - and what it taught me about loss, timing, and trustThe eleven-hour climb up Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas, that I finally finished a few weeks before my 60th birthday - proof that showing up late still counts as showing upThe Plymouth Voyager van with a dead starter, and the stranger halfway around the world who taught me that money is never the real issueThe author firmly believes that you can "Create Magic and Miracles when you Embrace Your Inner Weirdo."

Be bold. Be weird. Stay blessed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 179537909X
• ISBN13: 9781795379090
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"