Ever Feel Like You Should Be Trying Something DIFFERENT?

…Like somethin’ just isn’t working … but you keep on doing it anyway, over and over and over again, hoping something’s gonna change for you?!  Hint: (Like you’re job!) LOL .. We’ve all been there, it’s all good! I was stuck in a job for years, because my parents told me that was what I was supposed to do. Problem was, I was gullible enough to think that things were gonna “get better someday“…
Now I know that I had what some people actually call Some Day Disease, better known as Quiet Desperation…

I remember, back in the day, I always had this feeling in the back of my brain, that I needed to do something different. I was better than that. I had this lame ass dead-end job that I hated, typing numbers into computers and loading the boxes up for shipping, and had absolutely no plan or ideas on which direction I could head. My boss was an ass. Not very sharp either. The bosses never recognize that I worked harder than the talkative break-taking slow guy next to me, but we got paid the same. That wasn’t fair! I busted my ass, for 12 hours every night, 6pm to 6am, just to find out that they tax you even HARDER when you do over-time, so it never amounted to anything more. No matter how many extra hours I sweated over those boxes, I still lived paycheck to paycheck. It was going to be impossible to have any kind of quality life if I didn’t find something better…

What It Will Cost You NOT To Do Something Different Immediately

I wanted a better life, but I didn’t read the personal development books like they told me. I also didn’t invest my free time (or the little money I made) wisely. Instead, I was chasing women, went to clubs, buying beers, and watching other people live their dreams on TV. Only later I learned how they did it. I’ll give you a hint. They didn’t watch other people (who had worked their asses off to be good at a skill) live their dreams on TV. Those few who were actually physically on the court, had practiced and trained, investing time and money into themselves, every extra second they had. The few who did that were not watched by the 20,000 people in the stands who give their money, watching other people WIN the game of life from the sidelines.

It’s not that I didn’t deserve the dream life I have now. It’s that I made the decision not to deserve it, by doing stupid things with my time and money, every hour of every day. I was actually, every second, deciding not to actively search out better ideas to find and try better ideas. It was almost like my ego didn’t want to admit that I was doing something wrong, that wasn’t working.  I had my head buried in the dirt, like an ostrich, settling for what life “gave” me, as I struggled, month-to-month for the next 3 years. The regret of daily decisions like that aren’t going to hurt you so much now, but when you’re on your death bed, you’re going to feel that, and it’s going to be painful if you don’t at least get up and give it your best.

My baller friend T.R. finally asked me again if I had ever read “Rich Dad Poor Dad” and of course I still hadn’t, even though others successful people told me to do the same. When I finally read it, years later, I found out that I was building someone ELSE’S dream, not my own. What I was doing, had been getting me nowhere, slow and painful. No wonder I had that feeling in the back of my brain!

No wonder I couldn’t ever get ahead, or had any assets to show for all my hard work! I was closed-minded, getting TAXED TO DEATH, passing up opportunity after opportunity. I was just doing what “they” told me to do – taking their advice to “go to school, get a job”, but they had no success, so why the hell did I do what they told me? How many years did I waste, by not listening to these better ideas from successful people?
Doing “what I was told” was not working for me AT ALL, so I had to finally un-“fix” my mind to be open for new ideas….  (more…)