| Over the past few weeks I have been in the grips | | | | then and placed the utmost important on my work |
| of my own thought processes. I often wonder why | | | | maybe I would be a different person today. Many |
| I have made the choices I have made and how they | | | | times people feel stuck or lost as I have felt. We |
| have led me to this place. When I was a fulltime | | | | hate our jobs or we feel like we need something else |
| employee for a large corporation I can remember | | | | to make us whole and yet if we only realized that |
| being so dissatisfied with myself and my work | | | | we are already whole then wouldn't that make our |
| environment. It wasn't that I had a bad job or that I | | | | current situations more tolerable? If we accept our |
| worked with bad people but I still felt very unhappy | | | | current predicament and see the good in every |
| with my circumstances. It wasn't something I could | | | | situation, how could we not benefit from that sort of |
| place a finger on at the time but now looking back I | | | | thinking? |
| have a better feel for why I felt so lost. | | | | I'm not saying we should just stop complaining and |
| I didn't stay in college and I have always held the | | | | be happy because that doesn't work. What I am |
| belief that somehow I had limited myself because I | | | | suggesting is to realize that our current situations are |
| was not willing to do the leg work required to be | | | | only what they are because of our past choices. |
| recognized as someone of importance. I'm not sure | | | | From this day forward we can choose to make the |
| how a college degree would have made me a | | | | best of what seems to be the worst situation. By |
| different person or if it really would have had any | | | | making a conscious choice to see our current |
| real effect on the person whom I have become. | | | | dilemma's in a new light, maybe we are taking a step |
| I have always relied on self education. I have spent | | | | in the right direction which will then lead us out of the |
| many years teaching myself through reading and | | | | darkness and into a life that is more abundant. |
| researching topics that I find interesting. When I am | | | | So if you're unhappy with your current life situation, |
| focused on a topic I immerse myself into the subject | | | | try looking at it from a different perspective. Many |
| matter as if it is the most important thing for me to | | | | people would love to have the job you hate. Many |
| be doing at that moment. My lack of a college | | | | people would love to have the house you live in or |
| degree has nothing to do with me being lazy or | | | | the car you drive. It's not an easy task I know. Even |
| unguided. I have always felt that I am much better | | | | to this day I struggle to keep an open mind. Just |
| at guiding myself than any college instructor could do | | | | remember that the only real currency in life is each |
| for me. | | | | passing day. How we spend each day is a direct |
| Now, when I look back on my corporate career I | | | | reflection of who we are and where we are going. |
| often think about the people I worked with. I | | | | Choose to live a happier existence and abundance will |
| remember how some of them were able to perform | | | | find you. If you live to be eighty years old you will |
| their daily tasks as if nothing were more important. | | | | have lived for 29,200 days. If you only had $29,200 |
| They did their jobs without complaint and many of | | | | for the rest of your life how would you spend it? |
| them seemed very happy to be in that place. At the | | | | Would you blow it all on things that will only give you |
| time, I could not understand why I was so unhappy | | | | temporary satisfaction or would you savor each |
| and yet the people around me did the exact same | | | | dollar and get the most you could for it? Get the |
| work as I did without any thought of unhappiness. | | | | most out of each day and you will get the most out |
| If I had simply decided to accept what I was doing | | | | of life. |