Today I quit my job!
Well, technically I didn’t actually have a job. I was working in a finance company but they closed down due to the recession. After six weeks of constant delays, the company finally reopened and I was supposed to start again today at midday. But I did not go back - my heart was telling me NOOOOooooo!
You see, these last six weeks off have been supremely tremendous. Finally have the time to really enjoy the Barcelona summer. Oh la la. But more importantly, I have been LIVING my Ultimate Lifestyle! Everyday doing what I LOVE! Starting every morning with a yoga and meditation session and nice healthy breakfast before sitting down and spending the day focusing on music. In the afternoons I would sometimes take a break and go for a little stroll to the beach and get some fresh air (and also work on my tan) before returning home to cook a delicious home-made dinner, maybe hitting the gym and sauna as well before getting back to my projects and working until the late hours of night. My perfect day – peaceful and productive.
The only problem was the financial side to this. I had no money coming in! But that is what the Quest for the Ultimate Lifestyle is all about – making this lifestyle self sustainable!
Admittedly when first finding out that the office had closed, I was a bit stressed. I was quickly burning through whatever savings I did have and with the unemployment rate being so high in Spain right now and my only very basic Spanish language skills, I didn’t like my odds of finding another good paying position to support myself while I created the Ultimate Lifestyle… but even more concerning was my grand plans for a special reunion with some amazing friends at Burning Man in the Nevada Desert (USA) were in serious jeopardy now…
But I took my own advice about being Positive in the Face of Adversity, focused on what I had to be grateful for (everything – including not working in an office!!), relaxed and got into the flow of life again.
Just three weeks after the office closed on a sleepless night I stumbled across a gentleman’s blog www.thekiwimillionaire.com. He was from New Zealand too and really inspired me with his attitude and entrepreneurial spirit. He rekindled my imagination and the next day I started the blog you are reading now.
Instantly I was getting some amazing feedback from people I had never meet all over the world. I knew I was onto something special here.
So I kept developing the blog. Meanwhile the entire time the directors in the office were in contact with me, telling me that the office would be open again in just a few days, then another few days, then another…. for six weeks they kept telling me this, and in the meantime my financial situation is becoming more and more precarious!
Now, my friends have always told me that I should be a motivational / inspirational speaker. My passion and energy for life is contagious. And that is something that I have always been interested in and always knew that I wanted to incorporate into my lifestyle somehow, but I did not feel right charging for it! Helping others embark on their own Quest for the Ultimate Lifestyle and create their best life possible would just be my way of giving back to the world. So I always thought that this would be something I would do later in life when I was wealthy and could volunteer my time to helping others…
Last Friday I got the call from the office. We had officially reopened and I was due back at work on midday Wednesday. I was both relieved that the cashflow was about to start moving again, and also weary because it meant that I would be needing to focus the majority of my energy and time on something not directly related to developing my Ultimate Lifestyle. But we have to do what we have to do.
Then something special started to happen. Two days ago I went to the beach early in the morning. It was bliss. The beaches were relatively empty, the sun was shining bright in the morning sky, the Mediterranean sea was warm and inviting. As I sat on the beach I slipped into a deep meditation – for all you Meditators out there, you know the feeling I’m talking about! An intensely deep rooted feeling of peacefulness and pure awareness. No thoughts – just feeling… or as they like to say “just being”. That’s when this idea arose from within that stillness…. FREE Life Coaching! I would give Ultimate Lifestyle coaching sessions for free, and in return they would tell all their friends and family, encouraging them to take a look at my blog, and ultimately if those friends and family were in a position to and liked my ideas, would sponsor me – the universe supporting me so I could continue supporting others with free coaching, allowing me to also work on my other entrepreneurial projects at the same time. A nice little win-win karma circle!
So I rushed home and started to set it all in motion! My friends loved the idea and offered new suggestions to take this blog to an entire new level.
Back to me quitting the day job….I was supposed to start today at midday, and had a serious decision to make. To go for a regular, almost guaranteed income but spend the majority of my time and energy focusing on Non-Ultimate Lifestyle related stuff and still have the possibility of not having enough money come end of September to rent another nice apartment; or J.F.D.I (Just Fucking Do It!) – dedicate the next two months to making this Free Ultimate Lifestyle Coaching happen (and it will happen – who does NOT want FREE Life Coaching? and the Sponsorship side comes down to the Law of Probability – the more people who read my blog, the more possibilities it will connect with the right people who will sponsor me – and last count there were 6,929,508,943 (6.9 BILLION) people in the world – I very much like those odds!)
Of course it was a serious decision to make. So I took some time for myself – sat in meditation. It was difficult. My logical mind was leaning towards the safety of the regular income – “don’t be foolish”, but when I tried to imagine myself back at work I got a heavy feeling in my heart – and I always trust my heart!
So I quit and instead started the first day of my official Ultimate Lifestyle – and it FEELS GOOD!
I have two months to make this work – to start giving free life coaching sessions and get the donations coming in to support me.
Wish me luck!
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