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How To Own Your Life
If
you don’t have a plan, you’re going to be part of someone else’s plan.
Are you happy with your job?
Are you happy living the same routine every day (wash-rinse-repeat)?
Are you happy with the relationships you have in your
life?
. . . If you answered yes to all three of these
questions, I’m happy for you, and there’s no need for you to read this post.
But I invite you to stay because you might learn
something new about yourself.
Are you happy with your job?
Are you happy with your job?
If you’re not happy
with your job, make a plan to change it. Otherwise you’re giving a big part of
your life away being miserable at something you don’t like to do.
No brainer, right?
Go get your dream job.
If you don’t have the skills, then make a plan to get
them.
Go back to school, take an online course, volunteer.
Say you’ve always wanted to be a veterinarian. Volunteer at a vet clinic. You’ll get hands on experience to go along with your schooling.
Who knows, maybe the veterinarian there will hire you
and end up mentoring you.
Opportunity
happens when you step out of your comfort zone.
A lot of people will suck it up and remain at their
shitty jobs until they either die or retire. The same applies with their unsatisfactory lives because they allow the fear of
stepping out of their comfort zone take hold of them.
. . . Or
they’re just too damn lazy to try.
Brutal.
I know.
It’s a lot easier to bitch about our lives than to do something about it,
right?
But new opportunities and growth happens when we step
out of our comfort zone and put ourselves out there.
It doesn’t happen if we live our lives on
wash-rinse-repeat.
Are
the relationships you have genuine?
If you stopped being of use to people in your life,
will they still want to be part of it?
. . . Here’s another way to put it: If you have nothing
to offer except for your friendship, who will still be in your life?
To illustrate it even further, a gal I knew was on
the brink of losing her business. One day she broke down in front of me and cried, “What
will my friends think if I lose everything?”
“If they’re your true friends it won’t matter to them.They’ll
still be your friends,” I said.
She didn’t like my reply.
She ignored me.
You know why?
Because she cared more about being part of the
herd—even though it wasn’t genuine—than having a few true friends.
. . . So, think
about it.
If her so called friends bailed on her after she lost
everything—because she was no longer of use to them—this gal would
either be crushed or would finally realize her relationship with them was artificial.
She’d be much happier if she didn’t care what others thought and got rid of the plastic people in her life.
How
to own your life.
It’s YOUR life.
When you take your last breath on this earth, YOU are
the one who will be looking back on your life.
Not your relatives.
Not your friends.
Not your employer.
YOU.
You're the one who is responsible on how you live it.
Not them.
It's up to you to either piss it away or live a happy one for you.
. . . Ask yourself these questions and then answer them honestly:
-Do you enjoy the job you have?
You're the one who is responsible on how you live it.
Not them.
It's up to you to either piss it away or live a happy one for you.
. . . Ask yourself these questions and then answer them honestly:
-Do you enjoy the job you have?
-Are there toxic people in your life?
-Do you seek people’s approval?
-Do you cater to people's needs more than you should?
-Do you take some time out for you?
-Do you make up excuses on why you can't do something?
-Are you doing something that you're passionate about that brings you great joy?
-Do you ever step out of your comfort zone?
Your answers will tell you the areas you need to work on so you can take those steps toward owning your life.
Wrapping it up.
-Do you cater to people's needs more than you should?
-Do you take some time out for you?
-Do you make up excuses on why you can't do something?
-Are you doing something that you're passionate about that brings you great joy?
-Do you ever step out of your comfort zone?
Your answers will tell you the areas you need to work on so you can take those steps toward owning your life.
Wrapping it up.
Do what makes you happy, but it'll probably involve stepping out of your comfort zone.
But that's okay.
Learning and growing is a huge part of our life experience.
Stop being a doormat.
Once you firmly say no to them and stick to your guns, they’ll find another sap to take advantage of.
If you don’t have a plan you’ll be part of someone else’s plan.
If you want to support someone else’s dream by working for them and being miserable because you don’t have the drive to change your life, so be it.
But, if you want to OWN your life, you need to grab it by the balls and change your job situation.
There are people in your life because you’re USEFUL to them.
Stop being a doormat.
Once you firmly say no to them and stick to your guns, they’ll find another sap to take advantage of.
This also goes for the toxic and artificial people as well.
Do you really want disingenuous people in your life?
Drama?
Get rid of them.
You're going to be much happier, and your loved ones will probably be inspired by your newfound energy and tenacity to view each day as another opportunity to set and reach your goals . . . to own your life instead of investing it on poor returns.
You're going to be much happier, and your loved ones will probably be inspired by your newfound energy and tenacity to view each day as another opportunity to set and reach your goals . . . to own your life instead of investing it on poor returns.
