Getting Started with a Lifestyle Transition
Here’s a mock conversation about getting started with a lifestyle transition, one that models many conversations I’ve had in the past.
Friend: I really don’t like my job.
Steve: Why not?
Friend: The environment sucks, I don’t feel like my work actually matters, and I don’t feel connected with my coworkers. I feel empty when I’m there… and often stressed.
Steve: Ok, so what would you rather create instead?
Friend: Create? Well… I guess I want more freedom. And it would be nice to hang out with cooler people more often. And do something that contributes.
Steve: That’s the same B.S. that everyone who’s stuck says. Vague, general nonsense.
Friend: Huh?
Steve: More freedom, cooler people, and something that contributes? That’s like walking into a restaurant and saying to the server, I’ll have food. You won’t get served till you order something specific. You haven’t been served a solution yet, have you?
Friend: Well… no. But that’s because I can’t leave my job yet. I need the money.
Steve: For what?
Friend: To pay my bills. Rent and stuff.
Steve: So you can keep funding your lifestyle of stuckness?
Friend: Yeah, I guess so. But what else am I supposed to do?
Steve: That’s your question to answer. The world is waiting… and waiting… and waiting on your answer. Every day you’re giving your answer. How satisfied are you with your current answer?
Friend: Not very...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
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