Hour by hour, your life is being sold. Your job keeps you “just over broke”.
You don’t mind working, you’re not lazy.
But you can’t work mindlessly.
You’re not doing what you want to do, or what you’re meant to do, and the money you earn doesn’t compensate for the sense of loss (and guilt) that’s causing.
You can’t find peace.
The work itself isn’t challenging and money isn’t the issue. The pay more than meets your needs.
So, why do you feel poor?
Because time is the only true asset––and you’re giving yours away for a depreciating hourly wage.
You’re squandering your time, and life has stripped you of autonomy and authority as a punishment.
How did it get to this?
You Don’t Know Yourself
Right from the beginning you never seriously questioned your direction. You went with the flow.
Sure, you’ve changed jobs.
You’ve contemplated doing something different from time to time.
But those were just sideways moves and the musings of a discontented soul (you weren’t serious about them).
You’ve never plumbed the depths of your true capabilities—never pushed yourself to the absolute limits of what you can bear.
You’ve played it safe, made sensible decisions, done the “right thing”, and on the face of it everything is fine.
But underneath you feel undeveloped and insecure about not utilizing your gifts to their full potential.
You don’t know yourself.
No Growth
Now, you have major personal and financial obligations that you can’t back out of or put on hold (or can you?)
Change requires decisive action but that seems impossible (is it?)
This is the source of your despair.
You do all the normal things—catching up with friends, taking vacations, wandering through the mall on the weekends, seeking entertainment—but it’s all very superficial.
You’re living on the surface, the real you is buried underneath.
Your career is giving you everything except a sense of progress.
You’re not growing.
Work is just what you have to do to survive.
There’s no shame in that but the question is “what are you surviving for?”
What’s the mission?
Why do you exist?
You don’t know and that’s the problem.
The Real You
There’s little alignment between your natural talents and what you do in your job.
You haven’t found a way to bridge this gap, so meeting your practical needs and accumulating creature comforts has become your focus.
You’re successful but it’s on the outside only.
Even so, you’ve never been a conformist.
A 30-year debt contract requires 30 years of uninterrupted income—and that means severe restrictions on your freedom to explore and experiment with different work options.
Doing one thing, in one place, all day, every day, for someone else’s empire, to pay off lifelong debt, never seemed like much of a life to you.
You’ve never been fully onboard with it.
The people around you who live “normal” lives have never been able to understand you.
They’ve always found your reluctance to embrace social norms intimidating.
You challenge what they believe to be normal and right.
So, you’ve downplayed yourself to fit in––and it has worked, to an extent.
But deep down you know you’re not one of them (and so do they).
It’s true that inner strength makes a person exceptional—but being exceptional destines you to go against the grain and play life on hard mode, with very few friends.
Ordinary people are envious of you for it, which is ironic.
The Big Picture
Big changes are underway in the culture.
Birth rates are below replacement and the largest and wealthiest generation since WW2 (or perhaps in history) is leaving the field.
Soon there’ll be less people around to produce the goods and services you’ve become accustomed to—and at the quantity and the quality that you probably grew up with.
Forget about job security.
Society as you’ve known it is about to become a distant memory.
But with technology and the shift in cultural attitudes, you have the means to control how you work like never before.
The top-down, on-premises, post-industrial corporate paradigm is in decline.
The fact that it never embraced you was a blessing, not a curse.
You were made for this time.
Seize The Day
The opportunity to recover some autonomy and regain some authority over your life is before you.
But it won’t hang around for long.
Here are two important questions to ponder:
What are you good at?
Like most people, you have a range of abilities but there’s one or two in which you shine. These are your “superpowers”.How must you work?
Most work styles, cultures, and environments suppress your superpowers. But there’s one, tailor made for you, that will unlock them. To break out of your rut, you must either find it or create it. There is no other way.
It’s time to figure out who you are and what you should be doing with your life.
It’s time to stop downplaying yourself and become who you were meant to be.
It’s time to find your calling.
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