The Journey
This blog is the home of someone who was just sick and tired of being sick and tired. Someone who refused to keep trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Someone who thought she was crazy for thinking there was more to life than just working, paying bills, retiring and dying. Someone with a radical notion that she could possibly have it all, live a purpose filled life on her own terms, without regrets and full of happy moments (and not be broke in the process!).
If you think that’s crazy talk, it’s O.K. Just leave now, because what I am going to say next will blow your mind. Close-minded conformists shouldn’t go on any further…if you do, you have been warned!
After 8 years in corporate America; doing things the way they are “supposed” to be done, battling crazy traffic each day only to come home to spend little time, if any with my loved ones I got fed up. I guess somewhere between the panick attacks going to work, the headaches, the B.S. and the pointless meetings, reports and presentations I lost my mind.
Yup, I totally and utterly lost it!
I mean how else would you leave a six-figure job, turn down job offers to make even more money to “find your path in life”? How else would anyone in their right mind walk away from money like that in order to live a life of purpose and joy? You may be thinking, “purpose and joy who needs that?” Well, I do… And so do most of us.
My goal by my 30th birthday was to be financially free. The err in my ways was that I put the means before the ends. Meaning that I made myself miserable in pursuit of the money I thought I needed in order to be happy. And I was in good company! I sat next to people in meetings who were trying to make more money and more in order to be happy at some future time. Well, I realized that I wanted to be content now! I didn’t want to wait until it was time to retire. Is it possible to live a good life for 60-70 years as opposed to just the last 15? I think so, as a matter of fact…I know so!
Yes, I had bills! A mortgage, a car note, car insurance, 3 credit cards, 2 student loans, cell phone, etc… You get the point. I wasn’t living at home with mom and dad with no worldly obligations. I had bills to pay and mouths to feed. I was the primary breadwinner in my home. But I was dying inside each day to continue to live a life that was contrary to what my heart desired to do.
We aren’t taught how to live happily ever after. We are taught to go to school, get good grades and get a good job. No one teaches us about living a life you love, doing what you really want to do. No one told us that you don’t need to have things to be fufilled and that we should each define success on our own terms. If they did, I must of have missed that class or I wasn’t sent the memo.
I know this much is true…
I find the most joy when I empower people to make better decisions in their lives. When I help
people find the desires of their heart and when I can be the encouragement that they need to do the impossible. I believe there are thousands, if not millions of people who were just like me, sick and tired of being sick and tired. Those who realized that winning the rat race is no prize, because you’re still just a rat. If your heart is pulling you in a different direction than you are currently travelling, this is the place for you.
I invite you to poke around, check out some of my blog posts. Some of my posts are inspirational, motivational or thought-provoking. Any blog catergorized as “reflections” is a brief exercise that you can do to help you sort out some of the challenges you face to achieve better clarity and focus.
what an inspiring article!
enjoy reading it,
wish u all d best
sick n tired being sick n tired
nice one!