There is a saying that, “if you are not in charge of your own life, somebody else is.” You can take another quote that says, “If you don’t have a plan for your life, somebody out there does.” If you are reading this blog right now it is because you might be one of these people who is trapped by the shackles of a 9-5 job and you want to get out. You know that there is more to life that you could be doing right now, but you are locked into a cycle of defeat that repeats itself each day. You see others taking vacations and enjoying more time off, and you want more of that. You desperately want it. I know how you feel. It is painful to be in a place you don’t want to be in, to answer to people you don’t like or show up everyday to a place that doesn’t respect or care about your creativity, ideas or opinion.

This leads to some hard suffering down the road.

When you live your life based on the criteria others set for you, you suffer; when you are ignored or someone gets that promotion or raise that you feel you deserved, you suffer. There is emotional pain every time you surrender your freedom to another person or place to thing. I know because I did it for many years. Now, bills do have to be paid and people have to work; that is just the reality.

If you feel something inside you pulling you in a particular direction, you should go that way. If you feel it pulling at you everyday and it doesn’t stop, run like hell in that direction. It’s this force that is guiding you towards something bigger than you. For myself it has always been writing. No matter what I was doing [and I was usually doing something for somebody else] there was a powerful draw to write books and articles, to put myself out into the world so that maybe I could contribute to making someone have a better day, a happier lifestyle, or give a boost of encouragement when they needed it. I often ignored this call to action by procrastinating. And I procrastinated a lot. As a result of my resistance to taking action towards the things that really mattered, I suffered by putting off the one thing that created happiness and a fulfilling life. You don’t have to put off your passion for living your life your way anymore.

When you procrastinate and put off doing your passion, you surrender your freedom to everything else. When you are not busy building your dream, someone else is going to build it for you and you end up creating theirs. Now, I believe in helping others achieve their goals and living their dreams. It is my main drive for writing and creating ebooks. But, if I am only serving others [as in a mindless 9-5 job] where I am doing the work of others, I have relinquished my power to serving a lesser purpose.

There is only so much time on this earth. Your time is limited and it is the most precious thing you have, more valuable than possessions or money that we spend most of our lives trying to obtain. Love and time-guard them both with your life. And the best Way to serve both is to do something you love with the time you have. When you do, doors open up that were once closed. People you never knew appear in your life. The Opportunity that could not have existed before is suddenly available to you. You just have to be willing to reach out and grab it.

The possibilities are endless; sticking with something you hate and gripe about delivers misery and a feeling of discontentment. And when you go down this road, you suffer. Why do I keep bringing up the topic of suffering? because it is the one thing people want to avoid. It is what motivates you to make choices and take action. You either do something because you want to alleviate emotional pain, or avoid suffering at all costs. Although I can’t promise you will live a life free of suffering, you can certainly suffer less and enjoy more of life doing what you are meant to do and being the person you want to be.

If you ignore your real call to action, you will be doing the same thing next year for someone you don’t want to work with and earning a paycheque that somebody else has decided is your worth. If you want to be free, it starts here right now with what you do today. Don’t waste it.

Follow your path.

Here are some call to action steps you can take right now to get focused on your dreams. It starts with getting to know what matters and what doesn’t.

1. Identify your pain point. Is it going to a job you don’t like? Is it wanting something you haven’t yet achieved? Make a list of pain points of you have ore than one. Then, choose only one for now.

2. Map out solutions and actions you can take to move from a point of pain to one of pleasure or deep fulfillment. Write out any action steps you can think of. This step is critical. Just identifying your pain point is the first layer. If you know what it is but do nothing to remove yourself from it, you stay stuck in it.

3. Ask yourself the essential question: “If I could do just one thing with my life, what could it be?” Make a list of 100 goals, dreams, or ideas of all the things you can imagine being, doing, or having. Take that list and narrow it down to the top 10. Then, narrow that list down the top 3. FOCUS on just on of these for thirty days. And see what happens.

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