If All You Want Out of Your Life Work is Money Read Something Else

 

There are a huge number of books out there that profess to help make you rich. Some of them have even actually helped a few of their readers. Mostly they have helped the author. Note:  One of the first lessons about being an entrepreneur is to be a seller when the public is buying.

This is a daily blog that will run for months or even years. Books or blogs that actually help you obtain a good life are rare. Most of the people who can tell you how to get that good a life are too busy being happy to write a book or even a blog. Aren't you lucky that I happen to have a little free time right now?

The heart of the matter is defining by what you want out of your work life.  Think about these questions for a moment:

• Do you approach it with energy enthusiasm and hope?
• Do you have goals that take you toward greater success and enjoyment in your work and your personal life?
• Are you doing something that makes it hard to leave your job after a long day?

If you do not love your work, and most people do not, you are normal enough to probably be boring. Another Note: When my wife met me she told me that if I ever bored her she would be out of here! Now she prays for boredom -- daily.

If you don't answer yes to the three questions above you probably need to change something you are doing. You may need to change your job. You may just need to change your approach to your job. On the far side of reality you may even need to change your approach to life.

All of that fun stuff is difficult to accomplish. Change is hard, changing yourself is even harder. Ask any one year old how hard changing yourself is; they already know the answer. Of course you might have a little trouble understanding them, but they do know this much -- changing yourself is hard!

We all have a built in conservative that hates change. Change is also inevitable, just like death and taxes. Try not doing something, anything that you really like doing, for a whole week. Then try for the next week not to think about your failure or success at that effort. That experience should be enough to tell you how much of your life that inner conservative actually controls.

Yep!  Change is hard. Major change is even harder. Entrepreneurs learn to live and even thrive in a maelstrom of change; it is one of their most essential skills.

They may be crazy at the end of a life lived that way but it is often a happy kind of crazy.

Earning a Living vs Making a Life

The term, "Earning a living," is a telling statement in and of itself. Life is your gift from God or if you insist the universe. Keeping it viable is however sometimes a lot of work and hard cold cash.

Earning the money to survive can be done a lot of ways but you do not need to earn the right to live. You got that at birth. It is not earned, and it can not be taken from you lightly even if you refuse to work. The means to live in our society can be obtained without working a day in your life. I don't recommend that style of life but it is attainable.

Some of us are even born with the funds in place to live in style without working a day in their life. I have known a few poor bums, people who don't work at all and are experts at avoiding that wicked four letter word; work. I have also known a few rich bums, people who lived off their parents' wealth for a full lifetime.

This blog assumes you want to make your life more valuable than just having money will accomplish by itself. If gratification for you is just in ownership then find another author to be your guide. I neither want the job nor do I feel qualified to tell you anything about living that way.

I am qualified to help you become an entrepreneur. I have helped start businesses or rescue them for over forty years. I have learned a lot during that time and even remember some of it. This blog is my way of sharing that experience with you.

If what you want to do is discover who you want to be in the event that you grow up, even if you are in your eighth decade of life. If you find that you want to change the world starting with yourself, then we can go on this journey together. Let's wander around exploring possibilities together for a little while and see what happens.

This blog is designed to stimulate you toward adopting change as a way of life. It will also offer you ways to change your life. I have learned to find change enjoyable. Perhaps you will too, that could be entirely for the best. Change will come whether or not we want it to or are ready for it to take over our lives.

Life is about change, not money or power or ownership! Let us change ourselves. In learning to change ourselves we will change the world around us in gratifying ways.

Surfing on the waves of change is a fine art and a powerful experience. It is worth learning how to do that and feeling the exhilaration it can bring to our lives.