Wake the F$#k Up!
This is a wake up call for anyone that is not living the life they want to live. It will be dogmatic and heated, but nonetheless full of truth. I apologize if this shocks you into a state of discontent with your current lifestyle (that’s the intention).
First, take a look at the road map below:
Where did you end up? Actually I don’t care because I don’t think you thought nearly enough about whether or not you are happy. Now answer these 2 questions and really think about your answers:
2) Do I wake up everyday excited about how great the day is going to be?
If you can’t answer yes 100% to both of these questions, then you need to change something. Because GUESS WHAT…
Yeah, you’ve heard that 1000 times before. “Life is short, so make the most of it.” Well this time you’re hearing it from a guy that isn’t fucking around.
This is your life. You have complete freedom. We live in an era where the world is more accessible than ever. You’re not a slave or a peon or a prisoner. You can do WHATEVER you want. So why aren’t you doing exactly what you love? Money, fear, indecision, lack of knowledge, girlfriend/boyfriend and “I’m content” are not answers to that question.
When you give yourself pathetic excuses like that, this is how your life ends up:
That’s depressing.
And yet it’s the norm all over the world! Well thank god, or rather thank me that you are reading this right now so you can avoid that horrible fate of wasting your life away.
So going back to the road map at the very top, change is the key. Here’s what you need to do:
2) Plan out the steps and attitude changes you need to implement in our to see those changes
3) Dedicate every fiber of your being to bringing about those changes
Your life (and happiness) depends on it.
P.S. If you’re having trouble figuring out exactly what you want to change, then check out Finding Your Bliss: A Quick Strategy.
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This is one of those posts that I love: simple yet difficult but if followed, can be the reason that you die peacefully in your sleep, or climbing a mountain, or anything else you do that you love. I am really grateful for you posting this. Thanks.
Loy
It’s articles like this that make me wonder what I’m going to do with my life. I’m expecting to end up a 9-5 worker, mainly because I want to go into biotech or genetic engineering (the controversial type, altering genes for the better and such). But this makes me realize that that may not be such a great idea, because it won’t be fun! I don’t know whats going to happen, now…
I have been tryin to find what it is that makes me happy for yrs. now. I have realized so much in the past 3 years and understand now how to live life I honestly wish I knew then what I know now. WITH THAT bein said i for some reason cant pull my head out of my ass. I know what i have to do, i want to do it so i can be happy and make my son happy but i feel i take 1 step forward and 10 back i need someone i can talk to sum1 i know wont judge me and listen not only with opened eyes but a open mind plz. help.
krista
Your site is wonderful. I’ve been “researching” and learning for a few years now with
the process reaching warp speeds just over the last month. Everything I’m coming
into contact with, books, people, places, are sort of aligning me to the path of
my life’s purpose. Your site is fun, effective, and I adore it’s playfulness about
the whole thing! It’s totally in line with everything I’m learning!
Keep doing what you do! You are appreciated! =) And bookmarked!
Wow darkhairedgirl you love writing comments haha. Thank you for all the nice things you said!
Yes this is a good wake up but I also think it is pretty black and white.
Jordan I would like to say your enthusiastic engagement with life and those in it with you on the www is inspirational. I have agreed with or learned from most of what you have laid out on your site here as your thoughts, experiences — precepts, concepts of notion or the empirical. I would like to take notes on your understanding of “time” — for you say in this post that in so many words that to you life = time , time = life. Regressing I believe your inference of definition of life and time is in line with popular conventions of thought i.e. accepted “fact” in mass consciousness, however; from the sages of the ages of time it has been said : “time is an illusion” “time is the 4th dimension of our understanding of reality that will come to an end” “time will be no more” “time is a vapor that vanishes away, less than a dream” “time is the substance in which we burn” “time is a nexus of reality and not pervasive throughout…” etc. etc. Anyway those are few of the paraphrases about inferences regarding time. I am neutral as far as stating a fact about time but would like your thoughts on “time” and if you think it is but one of the known (mathematically at least) 8-11 dimensions , in theory of course at this point, that could be ‘circumvented’, or harnessed and controlled/changed either by sufficient technology or transcendent ‘elevation’ of awareness, of consciousness? If that is the case then could it be that life can be more than time for those that transcend beyond what is only temporally perceived and experienced?
Keep up the good work!
Excellent post
This is an irrational, one-sided and childish argument. Why should the only stipulation for things that you “should” be doing based on personal pleasure. And why is it that so many people seem to be unable to grasp that beneath the thin layers of those privileged enough to do as they wish, there is a far greater number who feel compelled to do what they do because of duty, or because they feel that despite not WANTING to, they NEED to, or HAVE to.
There are many that dislike what they do on a day to day basis, and they aren’t just soulless business types. They are educators, charity and social workers, scientists, engineers, builders, bakers and cleaners. Those without whom we cannot progress. But they do what they do, because they know, deep down, the one simple truth. Someone has to do it.
No amount of platitudes will pick up tools and house a family, teach its occupants to read or care for them when they’re sick.
may be i am gonna read this everyday until i bring the necessary change…thanx jordan….u sometimes seem like my mentor…:)