It’s never too late …
Passion = Freedom
Stuck in a world which never stops, even If you try and consciously slow down, everything and everyone just keeps going, now days with social media we have access to so much more information sometimes making us feel like we not doing enough to get ahead, were are these people coming up with this stuff, how are they making a living while still spending so much time on social media and building the content they post? What am I doing wrong, where am I going wrong, what am I not seeing? The head keeps spinning and when you want to relax, you feel guilty for taking those 10 minutes just to breath and recollect your thoughts, in the back of your mind you thinking I should be doing something with my waking time, I need to be moving forward every day I need to contribute something in order for me to succeed and get ahead, I need to get a step closer to that so called Freedom in life, but the harder I push the further that Freedom seems. The more trapped and overwhelmed, the more pressure and responsibilities everyone looks like they are having fun, when will I ever have fun, what is fun, what do I like to do which would class as Fun? People keep telling me to relax and have some fun, I never heard of any successful person who relaxed, they all invested their time into creating something and becoming something, and still today even with their billions they don’t really relax, they keep inventing and building. Not that I want to be so over the top, my aim is to be Financially free, free from the stress of money and able to live a life where I can take that trip, or I can buy that homeless person some clothes and food, or I can donate a month’s worth of dog food to a different dog shelter each month. I don’t want to be counting my pennies every month and just be scraping through.
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is Pure Perseverance” Steve Jobs (RIP)
What is perseverance? Perseverance is doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. This takes time and effort, it takes what you are not willing to sacrifice your fun time your relaxing time, you need to be willing to do what everyone else is not prepared to do.
Success does not happen over night like everyone claims it does, it took a year to get to where they are now, for some it took 10 years to get to where they are now, Steve Jobs started in his parents garage in 1976, he was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died in October 2011, he had built it into the worlds most valuable company.
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work” Steve Jobs (RIP)
We need to be happy doing what we are doing otherwise we are waking up going to work, wishing that the day would be over (wishing our lives away) we are counting down the days in the week, waiting for the weekend and when the weekend comes, trying to escape from the life we are living in the week. We have one life; this is not how it should be lived. We should be living a life of passion and doing something that we can be proud of doing, all of us have different desires and ways of thinking, we are not robots, and we were not put here to just exist.
So, the question remains, will I ever find that Freedom, because Freedom is found when you are doing something you love, living on purpose, freedom is when every day has an intention.
“Freedom; the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.”
If you are anything like me who at 42 still cannot find your “freedom” or “passion” what is your why? Then where does one start? How are you supposed to find the time when you need to work a fulltime and demanding job just to get buy every month and have another 2 sideline jobs and you just still not cutting it.
You ask yourself is there something I am missing? Why when I work so hard, put in the time and am good at what I do, although hating what I do every day, why am I always stuck in this financial rut? I honestly think the answer is because I don’t wake up excited to go to work if anything it frustrates me. I feel like there is no purpose it’s just something I must do to pay the bills, but why can I not find my why, when someone asks me, what would you like to do, I have no answer. When will I find my why?
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction” — John F. Kennedy
People who are willing to take the risk are the people who live for their passion, the ones who don’t conform and are not afraid to live out of their daily comfort zones. That’s when you start living, the day you take that step towards risking being out of what you know and into something new.
I have taken that step, I have resigned from my job, an industry I have worked in for 10 years, and moving into something completely different, its daunting and exciting, I know I can learn and I will succeed and through this opportunity I will find that freedom i’ve been looking for. It’s something I would never have done in the past out of fear and lack of self confidence. But now is the time to start living my life, because if I don’t start now when will I ever take that chance on ME!!!