9-5 RAT RACE

Break Free and Escape the 9-5 Rat Race 

I’d like to share a story. It was back in the late 1970’s that I began working for myself as a demonstrator of handy kitchen appliances, ladies’ accessories, and magic formula car cleaning product. I travelled to the various exhibition centres and shop venues across the British Isles paying for my transport and hotel accommodation. 

It was a constant task to find and sign up the next product for demonstration and the demonstration space inside of each venue. I had to arrange a whole lot of stuff while keeping on the ball if I wanted to turn the dream of living my life by design.

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Living the dream was my goal which involved the home of my dreams, a lifestyle to share with people who were important to me, the best health I could have even with my disability and income that was constant allowing me to live life by design. I guess my dream isn’t much different from what you might have in your mind’s eye.

To achieve my dream life and thrive in both my personal and professional life, I instinctively knew I had to have a plan with a path for me to journey along and achieve my dreams, but I had to follow through with action. This was the key to my success; it was a powerful combination that could transform my world.

FINDING HOW TO EMPOWER ME TO LIVE MY DREAM LIFE

At the time I didn’t know why after I had such a good start working for myself problems started to crop up. My time wasn’t my own, resources were not supporting my needs, money was running out and I just plain found myself overwhelmed and burned out. The Success that I had enjoyed up until a certain point was no more.

No matter what plan I laid out or activities I did everything was going pear shaped. It seemed to me that my birth right to living the dream was beyond me. I was a prisoner to my environment, in fact I felt like a victim of circumstances.

THINKING DIFFERENTLY MOVED ME FORWARD

It seemed to me I had to change the status quo. It was time to take back control of my life and begin living the dream just as I had always wanted.

I realised that I really wanted to have that time and money freedom in my life, that living the dream was important to me and required a doable plan of what action to do next, not a half-hearted group of disjointed activities that did not always move the needle forward. I had to adopt a better mind set, similar to when I first began my working life as an independent product demonstrator. I also had to structure a better plan. A day by day, week by week in fact a plan for the next 30 days even better would be a plan for the next 90 days, so I could be efficient. It sounded like a lot of work, but it really is a necessary thing to do.

So, I made up my mind and I did. I envisioned my dream of what I wanted, seeing me living the dream life and getting clear on what I needed to do. I began to think bigger with strategic actions put in place to move me forward. Thought by thought I worked out what I needed to do for the next block of 7 days then 30 days, then 90 days. I fine tuned the big picture into chunks of 7 days blocks. I even plotted out the day to day timing of work time, sleep, eating and exercise time and most importantly playtime!

Within a couple of hours, I was able to figure out and define what I wanted to achieve over the next 90 days. Block by block I ‘saw’ how everything would come together – all on my terms living my life by design. It took time to work out this plan and I knew it would take dedicated effort on my part to turn the plan into a tangible result.

Anyway, it works. I’ve been plotting out my 90 days / 3 months quarters for many, many years and it’s given me security, abundance, happy memories, and joy. I’d love for you to try it too. Go ahead and carve out a couple of hours to think, plan and structure your next 7 days blocks up to 90 days from now. The time will pass anyway, so you may as well enjoy yourself as Father Time tick tocks on. You’ll be glad you did the exercise; it will be time well spent and serve you in leaps and bounds in your pursuit of living the dream.