The Decision ...to Live Life Your Way 24/7
by Kevin Hogan
Living Life Your Way...it's the subtitle to the new book that will be available in less than one week in the big amazon promotion we're doing. I can't wait.
But...is it real?
Can you really live life your way?
I'm one of those "exception/polarity responder" types that reactively sees the exception automatically in anything people say. Mostly, it's my skeptical nature that has been cultivated by life for many, many years.
This trait irritates me in others, yet I respect the trait for what it does...it causes people to think carefully.
Living Life Your Way...REALLY?
Yet, that really is what it's all about, isn't it?
If you don't...then you are a slave...and I've never been big on slavery...the restriction by others on you that takes away your freedom to choose...if you so choose to choose...
Living Life Your Way....IS success.
Write that down. Highlight it. Bold it. Stick it on a post-it note next to your computer.
IF you identify with "living life your way", then indeed you are a success. If you don't, then you aren't, and I would argue that meaning in life often comes from living life your way.
Living Life Your Way doesn't happen in an instant. But the decision to do so DOES.
Today...it is my hope that you are a work in progress.
There were a lot of times in life where I felt I was a work in REgress. I never wanted to fail, or to live life in a way such that there would be no story worth telling later in life...life just sort of SLID into regression...and for a good while...but did it...SLID?
Probably not. When you put the car in neutral and you have been driving up the hill...you let go of the break and you go down backward...you regress. It's a choice. You SLID...ed. When you put the car in neutral without it being in an appropriate place to put it in neutral, you failed.
I've never experienced more people talking with me about this "place in life" as I have the last year or two, and it's one of the reasons I wrote the book, The 168 Hour Week: Living Life Your Way 24/7.
Obviously, the vast majority of people aren't anywhere near where they want to be in life. You certainly may be, but you probably aren't, and that really is OK...for as long as it is OK. The car is in neutral and sliding.
It might be time to hit the brakes before it accelerates going backward, because THAT is what happens in real life.
The very good news is that for the most part, you and your life are in your own hands.
Ultimately, with a few exceptions along the way, you decide where you want to be and when you want to be there. The decisions you make are your decisions.
Now, sometimes sh*t happens that you aren't responsible for, and it gets in your way and you feel like it locks you into a prison. You become the mouse in the maze. Going left, then right, then back around until you end up in worst shape than where you began.
Stopping that movie...full stop requires strength of character.
And this, of course, is where character is built...but most people don't enjoy building character!
Today, you may feel trapped. You ended up that way because of the stuff that happened and because of the decisions you made to get trapped.
And here is a crucial while irritating fact.
In most cases, the sh*t that happens in life is only as powerful as the preparation that was made for the stuff likely to happen.
This is where people lack the ability to analyze their road to "now" and, without accurate analysis, they will believe that only the decisions they make from today forward will impact their future.
Not true. (Read it again.)
The decisions you've made for years bring you to today, and many of them you are stuck with for life. Other decisions will take time to get over.
A good friend is next to broke and bought a brand new car in the Cash for Clunker thing. I nearly fell over. 30 K on loan. In five years, it will be worth 15 K and she will literally work to pay for that non-Clunker...to get back and forth to work!
The lack of logic in faulty decision making has always been disconcerting to me.
It's always pretty easy to tell where a person is financially. If they are living to pay for transportation.... then their efforts at saving $200 a month for retirement is little more than a joke.
If someone is spending $600 per month for transportation, they should at least be spending 50% more than that on their business or investments (or both). And don't confuse business with work. Business is your family's guarantee of financial security. Work, on the other hand, is somewhere someone goes for 1/2 of their waking hours.
Nothing wrong with "a job."
But "jobs" that don't have renewable resources have to make you nervous.
What's a job with a "renewable resource"? ...: 
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Kevin Hogan
Network 3000 Publishing
3432 Denmark #108
Eagan, MN 55123
(612) 616-0732
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