Burned by bad theory

11:24am I burned myself with a bad theory. I hypothesized if I stopped romanticizing leisure I would have no choice but to embrace work. If I embraced work more consistently I would be more productive and successful. Maybe that is true to an extent. But has the value of “success” outweighed the loss of relaxing rejuvenation? I feel I sacrificed what truly made me happy for minimal gain.

No promises

When I coach people I do everything in my power to give them the opportunity to experience to achieve their objective. I make no promises or guarantees. Failure is likely. It is a high risk situation. Only if people are willing to pay, to sacrifice, to risk can they possible grow. You have to be willing to do everything in your power to achieve your objective no matter how long it takes.

You don’t get to choose

You don’t get to choose what changes. Something good will come from change and something will be sacrificed. Change does not automatically mean better, it means different. The positive side of change is if a situation feels stagnate and painful the possibility of something new is mostly positive. I made the decision about my job. I spent a lot of money and ended up with different problems because of the change. But when I look back at it I am glad I made the change. I feel better and more alive dealing with the latter rather than the former.

The Sacrifice of Change

You only let go of comfort when you have no other option.
Every situation has elements you want to change. But most do not pursue change. Why? Because those are part of your overall experience. They are a necessary evil in the trade off of the things you do like.
One of the areas people think about changing is their work situation. Most jobs are redundant and feel stagnate after only a couple of months. Few of us like waking up early and going to work every day but we continue to do it. That is because the trade off is a paycheck deposited in your bank account on Friday afternoon. The paycheck allows you to go out with friends, afford your house, groceries, car, phone, etc. You could change the fact that you have to go to work but you would subsequently change the fact that you receive a paycheck and many of the pillars of your life would be in jeopardy as a result.
If losing your paycheck is a change you don’t want to make you also won’t change going to work each day. Only if work becomes unbearable would you be willing to sacrifice something as valuable as your paycheck.