[This is a cartoon I drew while reading Seth Godin’s “What To Do When It’s Your Turn”.]
This was originally a line that came out my my first book, “Ignore Everybody”, but I thought it was highly relevant to Seth’s message in “What To Do When It’s Your Turn”.
Anything worth doing is going to be painful.
This explains why we go to such great lengths to avoid it. It’s much easier to just go shopping, watch TV, hang out on the beach.
The only trouble with that idea is, we really aren’t born to live that way.
We are born to strive. And striving has a price.
And the moment you can accept this, really accept this, you become free in a way most people simply are not.
Yes, it’s scary. But if you really had any choice in the matter, you wouldn’t have read this far.
Good luck.
You can own this print here.
I’m currently trying to escape the rat race (I’m blogging about it at solongratrace.wordpress.com). My friends think I’m nuts because I have a crazily well paid job as a city lawyer…but I pay most of the money I make to the government in taxes. SO I’m accepting the pain of I’m going to have to sacrifice the false security of a job and do something with my own God given talents. I think it might be a shock to start with but I know it is the right thing to do for a better life.