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First off, thank you for all the comments last week on the “Why am I doing this?” post. The concept of Lifestyle design really makes a lot of sense to me and I am trying to focus more effort on dreaming things into reality.
This morning I was reading a post on Seth Godin’s blog called “On the road to mediocrity” and I started thinking about the opposite view to the previous post: Why am I NOT doing this?
Many times we can come up with all kinds of reasons why we should start a business or why we should freelance. But then… in the back of our minds… we come up with reasons why we shouldn’t as well. They might be legitimate reasons like: “The economy is too slow”, “I’ve almost paid off my car”, or “As soon as I finish this class I will”. In the post by Seth Godin, he makes the following statement:
You don’t have to settle. It’s a choice you get to make every day.
What a great point. That is exactly the concept that Stephen Covey was talking about when he said “Be Proactive“. Covey says that your decisions are what put you in the situations that you find yourself. You don’t have to dislike your job or your boss. Anything that you are doing, you’re doing by choice. That’s the same point as Godin’s point.
So what’s stopping you today? What are you going to do about it?
Be daring…be creative!
Jeremy
Jeremy Lattimore is the creative problem solving guru behind RefocusingTechnology.com and Borea Systems. Currently, he’s obsessed with business automation/efficiency and social networks. His question to you is: “How is your technology making you more efficient TODAY?”.
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Another great post, Jeremy. My reason to stick to corporate life over the last ten years has been mostly that I worked with interesting people in interesting companies and the salary was decent. I only actively switched company to work for once during the last 9 years, but a couple of acquisitions caused a couple of culture changes as well. I had the choice and I chose to stay through these, and I got a good opportunity that I chose to accept after that as well. As of today, I don’t regret any of those choices, but now I want to try something different.
Knut,
Thank you for the kind words. I think that if your choice was to stay in corporate America then that is great. It’s all about realizing that the choices are ours to make. It’s just like the post about Lifestyle Design each person’s preferences will be different. We just need to realize that whatever we are doing we’re doing by choice. If we don’t like the circumstance… change it. This is something I have to remind myself every so often.
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