When Do You Turn Your Life Around?
I think one of the worst things that people allow to happen to themselves is: to become comfortable… before they achieve what they REALLY want for themselves.
In our middle class, western society, most of us will never hit rock bottom. No matter how much we suck.
But is that a good thing?
Sure, for those who never had a chance, it IS a good thing. But my guess is that if you’re reading this blog, you have access to a computer, an internet connection, and have enough knowledge and time to read my blog.
And for you, I’m not sure if it IS a good thing.
Because you can sit in your comfortable rut - hating work, but accepting it - for the rest of your life.
You can have 2.3 children, drive a boxy but safe car, and make monthly credit card payments… and never really need to push yourself beyond that.
There is no wolf who will ever come to blow your house down.
You must be your own wolf, and you must inspire terror, or pleasure, into your own heart if you want to move beyond where you are.
Our society is the Tylenol which will let you sleep groggily through the rest of your life - if you let it.
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April 27th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
On the other hand there are those of us who are not happy. We look at the fancy cars, people playing golf during the middle of the day while we slave away at a 9 to 5. We dare to be the Man of LaMancha and dream the impossible dream!
It’s all about looking, testing, questioning, and never giving up. Once you find a way that works, do it! Don’t think about it and put it off till tomorrow, DO IT!!!!!
April 29th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
There’s so much rarara bullshit out there it makes me sick.
what I did was this: I needed my days free to build my business. but I also needed money. I wanted my nights free to spend w/ my wife. I decided to get up at 3am 7 days a week and deliver newspapers in order to make the money I needed, free up my days to concentrate on building my biz and have my nights free with my wife.
what other people I know who was just starting out in the same business did: kept there jobs and chose to work at what they supposedly really wanted part-time, “until it picks up and I can quit my job”.
they thought I was nuts to get up at 3 am 7 days a week. they also felt that delivering newspapers was beneath them.
fast forward, I have a thriving biz, while they’re still at those jobs and the supposed dreams they had have faded away. maybe they’ve moved on to dreaming about something else. I don’t know.
I’m not trying to pass off what I did as extreme or a drastic life change to make things happen. In the big picture scheme of things it was little. But it was enough to put myself into the position that I HAD to succeed at this thing that we all supposedly wanted back then.
What I learned from that was, you have to keep doing it through out your life. Once you reach destination A, a certain level of comfort, the level of sacrifice necessary to inspire terror to take you to B, C and D rise, too.
More is demanded of you.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
sorry for the typos like, “who was”.
fast typing.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Great story Jecklin - thanks for sharing.
May 18th, 2008 at 3:52 am
Holy cow…you totally nailed this… people have become “comfortable”, life just becomes this big blur, until you wake up… I was a victim once and I’ll never go back.
Great post..
November 11th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Great post story Jecklin