Life on Mars
Always the dreamer, I think and visualise potential paths in life daily, out a habit. Anticipating outcomes and ways of creating an income that increases my free time and/ or money. There’s an underlying point my partner articulated a few months ago that hadn’t seemed to resonate previously with her- To achieve non normal outcomes, it requires non normal actions. It seems the obvious statement but I’ve met so many people in life who are simply not prepared to embrace that reality and act without intent to graft a new direction onto the body of their work/ life commitments.
If the recipe of your life is without change, if you’re not prepared to step outside the box, to live life on Mars, to be out of your comfort zone- you’re without a lateral lifestyle as it’s out of reach of what is normally required. I believe we need to think differently, embrace what’s foreign, deliberately leave the paths that nurture our comforts and egos to become the student who is open to learning what most aren’t prepared to see, hear or understand.
Someone once said to me, “If you pop your head up and see a crowd of people gathered, head in the other direction.” Embracing the lateral income lifestyle is to me, very much the other direction. How exciting!
Get Some Spring in Your Step!
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Options, New Directions, Blank Pages.
As a young man, my boss at the hotel I worked at requested I take two weeks of annual leave before Christmas. I’d been working in the hotel for nearly five years and had accumulated a large amount of leave, the company wanted that reduced for financial reasons. So as I’d just finished studying and with it being late November at the time, I had a spontaneous moment; what to do, where to go?
A friend was driving interstate in 10 days from Darwin to Perth (4350km/ 2700 miles), so I asked to tag along for the road trip, figuring I’d fly home on arrival. As I packed I realised many options this instant and prescribed direction contained. Stay in Perth for a week, a month, permanently? That was it, “I’m relocating in 10 days!” Hey, I was 20 and owned about……a guitar and a box of clothes!!….no, seriously.
I’m discussing this experience because I wanted to relate a thought/ feeling I had on the first night setting up the tent at Lake Argyle after an 820km/ 510mile drive. The change in climate, the different layout of the land, the REFRESHINGLY new headspace I’d gained as I was now in a transition of life, I was inspired and rewarded for taking action in a new direction. I was also sharply aware of how stagnant I was in life… ouch!
These liberating thoughts made me feel alive and positive. I felt this way when buying my first website, writing the first blog. Options I chose to take from many directions available in life every day. Sometimes you need to be pushed out of routine before you can gain clarity. If life feels “medicated” to you, I can recommend you act on an option available to you that sparks your interest and perhaps initially makes you uncomfortable. Give it a license to do so, embrace that blank page that dares you to create!