Do What You Love Regardless of Your Circumstances
If you are strong enough, and willing to make some probably temporary sacrifices, it is possible to do whatever most fulfills you, regardless of your circumstances. Consider the steps below a loose guide, and be willing to modify them to fit your purposes.
Contents
Steps
- Lose the notion that you must have money to survive. This is a lie fabricated to keep you trapped in a system that may not be able to fulfill you. You don't have any money, anyway--paper money is a loan made at interest to your government by private interests, and it is why the whole rest of the world is broke. Millions of people do what they love, regardless of any remuneration. Yes, this may require an even more radical adjustment. Take baby steps, but understand that some major leaps of faith may be needed.
- Imagine what you might most like to be doing in a year. It does not matter what it is. Just as a computer can do any operation that you can say with your mouth, you can also do and be whatever your heart desires if you are prepared to ignore or overcome any obstacles.
- Find some people doing what you want to do. This is as simple as a Google search for your locale. They are probably closer than you think. They are doing it right now. Pick a family-owned or local small business over a large multinational conglomerate for easier penetration.
- Volunteer to help. Chances are you're reading this because you hate your life, anyway, probably. You might even have a job--or a career, for that matter--collecting a paycheck to pay for the house you get to sleep in, and the car, clothes, and insurance needed to get to work.
- You can even volunteer part time at first, one day a week at one or more of your Google finds, until you click with one--but an advantage of being destitute here is that you might volunteer full time (after all, it is doing what you love, right?), displaying the commitment that will get you noticed.
- Don't be surprised. Your desire to forward yourself in your dream field, coupled with your stated lack of interest in a slavish requirement for a paycheck, will cause strange reactions from those you seek to mentor you; because it is strange. We are, most of us, completely focused on how much an hourly wage might be gained, regardless of the type or fulfillment level of the work offered. This is a recipe for personal disaster.
- People with money are rarely happier than those without all but the most basic needs, which are easily obtainable from charity services if needed. Sleep in a tent in a friend's back yard for a summer if you have to.
- When others see that you are willing to do whatever it takes, they are often motivated to give you the things you need to succeed, and these things will often come to you when you just state a need for them out loud, to the air, even, or beg. You will surely often get money also, as most everyone else is so money-centered, they are going to be pushing money on you, whether you want it or not. All you need to do is track the price, in dollars, of something you buy regularly to see that this is the equivalent of being paid in melting ice cream on a hot day. You are being fooled, and laughed at--compare the colors of the newest bills to monopoly money, and recognize.
Tips
- Count your blessings. Being grateful for what you possess will allow hidden channels of bounty to come to you as you reflect your gratitude to others.
- Keep your priorities in order. A recent example decided that the most important things for them were nutritious, organic food; volunteered at an organic fruit stand for raw milk and honey and good veggies, expecting to stay a stint in the forest--and ended up with the keys and a motor home out back as caretaker. You can, too.
Warnings
- Expect some periods of doubt and self-examination. Once committed, people may consider you nuts; you might even think that you are nuts yourself. Stick to your priorities at all costs--write them down if you have to, and reinforce, reexamine, or change them as needed, but don't be very willing to abandon them at the first resistance--and there is going to be resistance. The way the world is set up is often anathema to your commitment; disregard anything that would swerve you from a priority.
Related Articles
- Find Your Passion
- Be Normal
- Live Unhappily
