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Slide 68
86 Your Current Life for a Lifestyle You've been Dreaming of
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Imagine living a very average life with a normal routine. Nothing fancy generally comes your way.  For the most part you’re just the average guy on the average street.  Life is good and things are pretty much uneventful.  You read the headlines about the people who live fabulous lives but you don’t know any of them.  None of your close friends do any gee-golly neato things. 

Then one day you decide you want more as you discover the good life doesn’t just happen.  It doesn’t drive down the average street and ask you do you want to ride.  It doesn’t come to your average job and identify you as exceptional even though you work more seriously or diligently than others.  So you set out to find a bit of the good life – no plans – just a little more effort and belief that it can happen for you. 

You now start to pay a little closer attention to where the successful people will be and decide to attend an event just for the heck of it.  Since you don’t have a lot of money, you find one of the lesser attended events at a non-standard time, like maybe a weekday at 10 a.m. when your friends and colleagues are at work. 

While at the event you find that this guest of honor is willing to hang back and chat with the audience after the crowd dies down.  You decide to hang back to ask a question.  In your brief chat you find out a few things.  This person is awful common acting.  They really do drink water.  They pump their own gas.  Their kids get sick and they went to high school and didn’t graduate at the top of the class.  More interesting, the person asks your interests about some sport, event or activity that the both of you are fans of.  The conversation keeps going and then they do something totally unexpected.  They ask you are you attending some event in the near future that they are attending at some posh place.  Excited, you say, “Absolutely!”  They respond “Great, why don’t you join me when you get there?”  Further they tell you to give them a call next week so they can invite you to their “whatever type” event.  To make things even better, the camera man is coming by to take pictures of this person and you happen to be standing there right at that moment.  Together the two of you take the picture and the camera man tells you it will be on the website by the end of the day.  At this point you are stunned!

You drive back to work with no concern about having to make up the hours missed as you’ll gladly do it.  You are on this year’s highest high.  You are ecstatic and bursting at the seams with glee.  You can’t even put into words how your morning has gone.  When you return to work, everyone is there doing their usual dull routine.  There are a few people hovering around the coffee machine.  A few are legitimately busy.  The others are somewhere in between. 

You begin to tell a few of your closest colleagues what just happened and they are like “No way!”  You’re like, “Yes way!”  They are like, “Get Out!”  You are saying “No, really!”  The remainder of the day goes by and the word travels around the office who you’ve been hanging with and everyone is thinking wow, I didn’t know you ran in those circles.  You’re thinking no, I don’t but they are saying not based off what they just heard.

A few weeks pass and you attend the event that you’re super excited about and it goes off more spectacular than you could have ever imagined.  From the people to the jewelry to the clothes to the cars, it is magnificent.  You just can’t believe the world you’ve just entered.  The next few hours you spend listening to how these people spend their day and how they make a living.  They get paid infinitely more than you have ever thought possible and even better they are happy.  They love their lives.  The best part is you seem to fit in and they welcome your presence without you changing who you are. 

You begin to get invited to and made aware of a few more of these events and as you start to see the possibilities of your life this way, you begin to take less of an interest in the corner office.  The people who get paid slightly more or even a good deal more don’t impress you anymore.  You’ve figured out a more exciting and seemingly easier way that doesn’t take thirty years with the hope of the gold watch at the end.  The most exciting thing you hear at work is “We’ve got new printers!”  With a little time passed and a few more events attended, you have slowly turned your interests away from work.  The conversations you used to have with the colleagues on your job, the friends in your circle and the neighbors on your street you don’t have as much.  It’s not that you don’t want to but they close their minds to the possibilities.  You’ve really accepted the fact that you can have more, deserve more, want more and are out to get more.  Work now is a hindrance.  It’s no longer exciting and becomes a total bore.  The people have little drive for anything more than what they have.

With your frustration running high at you not being where you deserve to be, work is now just a drab.  You don’t want to be around them and they don’t want to be around you.  What do you do now?  Welcome to Slide 68.


This isn't just a book, it's a movement.
       Are you living or simply existing?

Mediocrity or simply existing can expose the clock on a life that's a ticking time bomb.  Relentlessly pursue happiness and the journey alone perpetuates adventure.

- Anthony Von Mickle
Expected Release: Fall 2010