LIFE AFTER QUITTING MY 9-5 + FREE PDF 20 LIFE CHANGING HABITS FOR 2020
I finally feel like I am exactly where I am supposed to be.
My whole life, all I ever wanted was to make a living off my creativity. In 2018 I really wanted to monetize my passion project, A Small Wardrobe, but I felt this was not possible. I did not feel like it was a realistic goal. I did not feel like I had the ability or the right to be able to do this. In 2019, fed up with my day job as a high school teacher, I decided I was going to monetize A Small Wardrobe, regardless of what I felt about the subject.
If you’re here for the first time, you should know that I worked a lot over those two years. I made sacrifices. I did not socialise much, I did not date, time disappeared. I put my head down and focused obsessively on my goal.
For my goal to succeed, I had to work physically, but more importantly, emotionally. I needed to learn to believe in my skills and abilities. I needed to find my strengths, and work on my weaknesses. I needed to wake up everyday, stare myself in the face and say ‘I will do this’. I needed to create inner harmony, self reliance and resilience.
One day a few months ago, I woke up, and suddenly, as though through some miracle, the goal I set had come to be. It still feels very surreal, so forgive me for any magical thinking. It was sort of like I had imagined something, and then made it come about from sheer determination and pure air. I was earning enough through A Small Wardrobe. I could quit my job. I could live my dream life. The last day I worked as a teacher was December 20, 2019.
Here we are, pilgrim. We have made it. I have somehow managed to bamboozle the universe into giving me what I so badly wanted. I would like to tell you how I have felt since.
I have undergone a massive internal emotional shift over the last few weeks. I feel calm and confident in my abilities. I feel like everything will be fine. I feel like I am finally doing what I am supposed to be doing. I feel like everything I have ever done in my life has brought me here. Everything in its right place. The puzzle has been solved.
So what have I actually been doing?
I took two weeks of holidays immediately after I ended my 9-5. A few days of the Christmas period were spent here in Perth, with family and friends. I thought my life satisfaction was just about work, but actually I have found the effect has spread to my whole being, even my relationships. I heeled some pretty impressive rifts in the days after, asserted my boundaries while being present, and generally wished everybody in the world, naughty or nice, well. I then headed to Margaret River, to take part in a community I really love. I thought I was going down for a few days, but I ended up staying for nine. That was where I truly relaxed. I focused on relationships, rest and nature. I came back to Perth refreshed, and ready to begin work again, this time on my terms.
This is what I want 2020 to look like.
I want work-life balance.
I want to spend a lot of time with people.
I want love and community.
I want to feel positive and grateful.
I want new adventures and experiences.
I do not know if A Small Wardrobe will get to where I want it to, or whether I will still want to be working on it in a couple of years, but I do not that this leap into the unknown has broken me free of some shackles that I cannot even begin to describe.
What are the changes you want to make to feel like you are where you are supposed to be?
If you need some help in figuring out how you want your 2020 to look, I have created a convenient little downloadable PDF for you to take with you.
All the best in 2020! If I could do it, so can you.
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