My life didn’t take the direction that I had expected in 2015. It was a culmination of events that happened over the last couple of years and led me down a path that I had never thought that I would be on again. With my business faltering and nearly wiped out thanks to some events that happened back in 2012, I had to go back to working a job.
Something that I never though I would ever do again.
I should mention here that I am not saying that there isn’t value in working a job, but rather I always believed that I would be an entrepreneur for the rest of my life. There are so many opportunities around us that I should have been able to grab one and run with it.
But that is not what I did.
My wife put her foot down and I went back into the workforce back in 2014. Now, I have a good paying permanent job and some stability in life, but I am busier than ever. I miss having the time to pursue things that I love including my role as mayor, being there for my children’s activities, and having the time to develop myself into the person I want to be. Working has certainly slowed down my progress on those things and really stymied my will to write (as you can tell by the lack of posts over the course of the last couple of years), but it is time that things change.
It is going to take time, but I know if I take it one day at a time, great things will happen.
I just have to be brave enough and dedicated to taking one step at a time.
My move in the right direction started three weeks ago when I read Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod. The premise of the book is simple: get up an hour earlier each day to work on personal development, exercise and shape yourself into the person you want to be. I started about three weeks ago getting up at 5:10 AM every day.
It was a lot easier than you would think.
Day by day I started to feel better about life. Exercising helped a lot, and up until this past week, I went the longest that I have without feeling tired and groggy in a longtime. I can feel my flexibility and fitness coming back and I am getting back to being myself.
I know I still have a long way to go.
But day by day, piece by piece, I am changing my life for the better. I just take things one day at a time.
Topics #change #personal development
Awesome post, Marc! I started to read that book. I kind of already do the miracle morning. Love your blog, keep the posts coming. I know it’s hard to write every day or every other day, but you owe it to yourself.
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