Rules for the Road...

They say that it takes "dire circumstances" to change what must be changed. I'm not gonna say that my particular situation is dire, quite the contrary, but I think that what is worse then "dire" is complacency. Complacency has a way of settling you into a comfort zone that is a lot harder to escape then dire. Dire forces you to change, complacency, not so much. I'm not saying in all cases though, and this is one of those cases.

If there is one thing that drives me crazy, it's the comfort zone. Somehow I ended up in some form of a "comfort zone". I think we all do. I mean I did everything I could to stay out of it but inevitably it finds you. It takes you over like a deadly ninja, without you knowing about it.

I've been working on a lot of different projects thinking that this project or that project is gonna be the one that ends up being the next big thing. After a little while things fall through and I am back to where I started, waiting for the next big thing. Going through my various ways of solving my particular life circumstances seemed to just reinforce where I was. I was going  nowhere fast.

 "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." -Albert Einstein


So I decided to make some changes. I didn't really know what to do. I guess that was a good starting point, I mean if I knew what to do I wouldn't be here right.  I basically decided to just follow my passions. I wasn't going to try to make money. I wasn't gonna try to do what I was "supposed" to do. I basically wasn't gonna do the expected. I also figured if anything, I would at least have fun. I made a few ground rules for the road (or should I say guidelines, nothing is ever written in stone for me). One, if I was intrigued by something, I would have to find a way to make it happen. I didn't have to have everything figured out (like I did in the past), I would just have to take some sort of action. And two, I would let go of controlling how it was gonna happen. I figured if I made mistakes, I would have some learning experiences.

In terms of success, I kind of had to let that go. If anything, there is no true gauge of success, just a journey. I also have to say that one I am not in a relationship right now, meaning I have more time in my life then I guess others in a relationship would. I am also not wealthy by any means. A lot of the solutions that I acted on had to be somewhat economically sound. Other than that...

"Using no way as a way, using no limitations as a limitation" - Bruce Lee