Below is an excerpt from my book on entrepreneurship. I'm interested in hearing your thoughts as to what makes us happy in our career-life, please share!
You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows...and has always known...that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.
-Tony Robbins
Each day I would read this quote as it sat above my computer desk in my tiny, cramped, isolated cubicle. In between serving customers and checking to see if I had lost circulation in my buttocks from sitting for so long, my mind would venture off into wonder debating on whether or not I was winning the battle Tony Robbins was talking about. “Have I surrendered?” I would ask myself repeatedly day after day. I became consumed in the daily routine of doing the same thing, over and over, constantly questioning if there was more to this thing called ‘Life’. My idea of happiness seemed so far away, and after losing my mother to cancer, my time became more valuable to me than ever. I desperately craved more time with my family and loved ones, and freedom from the daily routine I found myself in. I began to realize that I had positioned myself on the poor end of a bad deal: trading an irreplaceable asset, time, for a replaceable asset, money.
If you’re looking for a get rich quick scheme, or some sort of magic success formula, you won’t find it here. But, what you will find is that I can help you uncover the root of the very fears that have been stopping you from living a life of abundance, contribution, and creativity. Taking the leap into entrepreneurship has been the single greatest career decision I’ve made, and my passion has now become sharing my story with as many people as possible, in hopes that they too can utilize and take control of their most valuable asset: Time. As an avid student of entrepreneurship, inspiration, and motivation, I would religiously watch, listen, and read anything that I thought would give me the next idea to help me take the leap of faith. What I didn’t understand at the time, is that the very thing I was desperately searching for resided inside of me all along. (It resides in you, too!) The reality is, we live in a society where more and more of us, especially the millennial generation want to be happy. They want to experience life, enjoy the fruits of their labor, and have the weekends off! The pursuit of happiness is becoming more valuable than the pursuit of a prestigious career. However, the growing concern is that happiness is becoming less and less of a reality because we are being forced into our careers, and realizing once we get there that happiness is a longshot. We are wanting a way out, and fast! We realized that the “dream” of graduating college and working a real-world job doesn’t bear all the fruits and rewards we were told it would. It’s actually exhausting. We realize that the money isn’t worth the headache and stress of working somewhere that limits our creativity. We’ve drifted ourselves in a position where we don’t know which direction to turn. We’ve drifted our way through college and by the circumstance of luck found ourselves into a profession that wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be - and our only vision of the future is the daily routine that we are experiencing today, or we may have worked our way through the corporate ladder, just to realize that the grass wasn’t as green as we thought it would be. We then calculate how we feel today, and multiply it by the amount of time we have yet to work, and see nothing but hopelessness for our future. All we know, is all we know, so the idea of change seems impossible. If you’ve experienced this, or even thought about this scenario, I identify with you to the fullest extent. This was my life - caught drifting. Sold on the idea that education or a career that provided me with a great income would bring me the happiness I yearned for. Once I got there, I realized that I needed to figure a way out as quickly as possible. In order to make the change, I knew I had to first understand how I could achieve happiness in my work-life and personal life. I resented both. I felt undetermined, unappreciated, unalleviated, and overwhelmed. So, one night, with all of the power vested within me, I took a notepad and a pen and birthed my very own happiness formula:
Purpose (Value) + Time (Love) + Financial Stability (Security) = Happiness
It was the greatest “A-ha!” moment of my life. I had finally put down on paper some sort of direction of what I was after. I couldn’t fathom the idea of being a product of someone else's decisions any longer. I knew that if I could somehow find a career that provided me with those three aspects, I would give myself the absolute best chance of happiness.
The underlying issue is that we are seemingly forced to choose a career or profession in hopes that it will provide at least one of those three aspects. More often than not, we find ourselves stuck in a profession that we chose when our needs required a certain aspect over the others. Because our personal life and circumstances are ever-changing, our inability to adjust our work-life to match these ever-changing circumstances can cause us to feel resentment, stress, and depression toward our profession, which will ultimately trickle down into our personal life. Entrepreneurship is the golden ticket to freedom.
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