There are four ways you can decide how to live your life.
Boring- Little risk. Little reward. Lazy. Not much to talk about.
Mediocre – You get paid every month but hate your job. Life seems okay from the outside but you’re always complaining. You refuse to take action to correct it.
Above average – You’re moving up. You’re following your passion but something is still missing. You don’t take the extra step needed and quit too easily.
Epic – You’re doing what people only wish. You’ve done the unrealistic. Much more difficult but the rewards last a lifetime. You’re in the top 1% of the population.
Whether you like this or not you will spend around 91,520 hours of your lifetime, working! Why spend that amount of time doing something that you don’t want to do? Ask yourself this question right now. “What do you do for a living?”
How does answering that question make you feel? If your job totally rocks, your body and soul feels proud to give that answer every time. You would be happy to keep on talking about it, for as long as anyone will listen.
Everything that we have become up until now was based on a choice. The choice may have come from you or someone else. There was always a choice. When we were younger, many of those choices were made for us but once we became adults, the power to make choices shifted to us. Some have embraced that power while others still let other people and other factors determine their choices.
You had a choice what to wear today. You had a choice of what to eat. You had a choice of how you felt at any moment today. You had a choice to read this far in my post (thank you!).
Those who live epic lives love having the power to choose and take full advantage of it. Those who are struggling haven’t made many choices. They’ve never taken the bull by the horns. They do the same thing day in day out.
When we were born, we were wide eyed and saw the world as full of possibilities. As we got older, we were told to follow a certain map given to us by our parents and society.
I had a map given to me all because I told my parents I didn’t want to go to University. I didn’t need a degree to be a radio presenter. However being a ‘radio presenter’ in the eyes of my Mum wasn’t a ‘proper job’ and she made me follow a route she thought was best for me.
Honestly I hated it. I cried. I cursed. I hated life. Finally, I made a choice. I took that map and incinerated it. I began creating my own.
The only map we have in life has a point A and a point B. It goes from birth to death. That’s all we are guaranteed. We’re all going to get to point B at some point.
However, what you do between those two points is what will shape your life.
If anything, it should have lots of zigs and zags. It should never look linear. It should look like the most expensive painting ever sold. Lots of lines, patterns, confusing but beautiful to the one who created it.
It should be filled with laughter, love, family, friends, gratitude, giving and excitement. Sure, there will be rough stretches but we won’t let that ruin the overall journey. If anything they make the journey worth while!
When we arrive at point B, we will have left our legacy, made sure people knew we were here on this earth, affected as many lives as possible, and have no regrets.
Now that is what I call ….. EPIC!