climbing the ladder
so here i sit, raw green smoothie in hand, pondering another week of life on this planet earth. another week in my year of self healing: taking the time and offering the awareness to obtain optimal health, and with it, making this year my best year ever. and what the heck has transpired in this third week of february, 2009? well, let’s have a look.
on monday i offered up some motivation to get away from the world of screens and into the world of flesh and blood, expressing a bit of concern about my current ratio of virtual reality vs. regular reality, which is pretty ironic since one of the major motivations for an on-line presence for myself has been the quest for the ultimate lifestyle design of something which, if not a four hour work week, then something less than a 20 hour work week. more about that later.
i win! saith rowan
hand in hand with that quest to back away from the screen was the dive toward more natural living, as in getting out into nature and eating food as close to it’s natural state as possible. and i’m happy to say that i’m pretty happy with how that all worked out. i’ve been pretty much mia on twitter, completely backed up on my rss, and presumed dead or kidnapped by aliens in my online communities. woo hoo!
here in roslindale i’ve been out for some great walks, solo and with the family, i’ve kept true to my goal of eating lot’s more fresh raw food (without giving up my bacon and eggs!), and i’m getting pretty good at i spy bingo and chutes and ladders, although rowan still seems to win more times than not.
an interview
i also, gasp, went out for a job interview. yikes! yes. a job! at a location! with a schedule! and a boss!
lions and tigers and bears oh my!
yep.
now. i know that getting a job is the stupidest thing that a person can do. it’s a time suck, you only get paid when you are working, you don’t get residuals off the work you’ve already done. hell, just press the link and steve pavlina will tell you all about it.
and sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. and when one of those things you gotta do it pay rent, and another one of those things you gotta do is pay the co-pay on a wrecked car, and and and buy food seeds for the garden clothes for the spring etc…
a little observation
so yeah, about that lifestyle design thing. or whatever you want to call it. the online success game. the don’t work for other people thing. okay.
super important here. that’s a how.
repetition for ease of paying attention
that
- getting paid to be yourself,
- find a way to make money doing something you love,
- outsource all your work and spend 4 hours a week managing the person who manages your outsourcers…
that whole online success thing that we have all seen laid out a hundred different ways with a hundred different levels of success by a hundred different wild and wonderful people…
those are descriptions, not prescriptions!
yeah. whenever someone goes on about how to do something, how to achieve something…stop for just a second and ask youself if you are that person. as in
am i steve pavlina?
am i the sort of person who
- starts out a vegetarian
- graduates to vegan
- conquers the mountain of raw foodism
am i going to become polyamorous, polyphasic sleeping superman?
no i’m not
i’m much more likely to eat some green apples and slide down the chute to square 11, drat. or skate on thin ice and slide back to square 53 drat. or paint without proper painting attire and slide back to square 73 drat!
which is why it is so important to skip the hows, especially other people’s hows, and just go with the flow while keeping your eyes on the real prize, which in my case includes time outdoors, playing with rowan, learning how to communicate with randi, writing and singing songs, etc.
and if a car pulls up called “good job that you will like it” and the driver says, “hey…can i give you a lift part of the way?”…well…am i going to pass that up because it doesn’t fit into my perfect plan of how to get to the top of the hill? to the big prize at square 100?
do you spin perfectly every time?
‘cos here’s the big thing i learned playing chutes and ladders. there is an optimal way up to the top. to being able to yell, as rowan does, “i win!” yet i have no real control over my spin. just as i have no real control over thousands of factors in my life. so for all i know taking a job right now, even though that is not in my long range vision of my optimal life, might be that perfect ride that takes me a ways down the road and drops me off at the right place and the right time for…
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