Hi everybody,
Welcome.
ive been reading
The Four Hour Work Week by Tim
Ferriss and its got a good hold of me... for one,
i'm working the 8 hour per day / 5 day per week gig that is quite easy 4 me and pays
perty well... um, as well as a corporate job can pay.
in any case, i realized many moons ago that my mundane life was going to continue on its course for some time. what i
didnt realize was that i could do something to change it. in addition, i
didnt realize that it was my fear holding me hostage from considering alternatives.
enter a good friend (tr), a good book (four hour work week) and a new support system (
lc). this odd cocktail somehow jarred something in my brain and
ive now got this bug up my ass. i got excited about getting out of my 9 to 5'er... i got excited! finally, there was something more for me than accounting reports and financial forecasting. i believe i have found a way out!
now
i'm ready to begin experimenting and taking the risks that i -- for a long time -- could not take due to fear. stupid fear.
ive not yet read the entire book, i stopped at p. 203 and started over.
ive been thinking of my muse and
ive tried the comfort challenges.
tonight i documented my fears. have you ever done this? after typing for 5 minutes into notepad, listing my fears, i was like WOW!, i feel great now. then i documented what i could do to fix any "problems" that
occurred due to my fears. i felt even better.
here's what i came up with:
- i fear leaving behind a good job and not knowing what is to come
- i fear having no money in my bank account bc i am not getting paid regularly
- i fear being unable to live this material lifestyle ive become accustomed to living
- i fear taking too much time off of work and losing my job
- i fear losing 80% (or more) of my savings due to spending without earning
i then asked myself, how can i recover from a worst case scenario? how could i overcome having no more savings? where would i live? how would i eat?
ok, lemme figure this out...
It seems as if i have a few options:
- if i needed a job, i could ask friends who do job placement for my industry
- if i needed a place to sleep, i could stay with a friend who has an empty bedroom
- if i needed food, i could eat college style for a couple months (raman noodles, pb&j)
- if i needed money, i could work random gigs (i.e. find work in the help wanted section)
- if i planned ahead, i could follow Tims advice to create a muse, set it on autopilot, and then liberate. this is my preferred method, btw :D
in any of the above cases, nothing is as bad as i once thought it was -- especially now that my fears have been documented and im working on finding my first muse.
IM BACK BABY, YEA!
ps - thanks you tr, lc and Tim Ferriss