Planning a Vacation
Today I feel BLESSED. It’s been warm lately and so the girls have been running out of the house with just a light jacket. Just five years ago at this time of the day I would’ve been three hours into my job and sitting at my cubicle a few miles from the house. Today as I was reading in my office watching the girls walk away I decided to walk outside and I realized how cold it was and it was freezing.
I immediately got in my truck and picked them up so they could sit inside until the bus came. This also Gave us five more precious moments of quality time together and daddy got to be the one that saves them.
Are you planning a vacation for yourself or family?
You’ll want to keep reading.
You see, i’m going to be a little bit bold in saying what I’m going to say.
When I was younger I thought that I would be a professional baseball player but when that didn’t happen I fell into the trap that most people fall into.
I hear often times that people say I have a great job. Heck I had a pretty great job as well but the truth is I didn’t know there was anything else out there for me. I literally believed I would have a job for the next 40 years working for somebody else and I had a “big dream” of retiring at 65 with a million in my retirement.
I got a job with a 401(k) and a good insurance plan and the opportunity to grow in the company with my hard work hard to achieve that life goal by 65. But let’s be honest I wasn’t doing something that I was passionate about. I was working to pay the bills.
2010 I fell in love with health and fitness and helping other people. I began to help people get active again and to start eating healthier. I fell in love with that process. I spent an hour or two a day helping people without being an official “coach”
I did that for entire year before starting my business. They say that you’ll never be successful until you would do what you do without getting paid for it.
THAT WAS ME.
I have a video, okay well 1200 videos, one in particular that talks about the sacrifices you have to make to build a full-time income from home. I’m going to drop that in the comments below.
But one of the biggest sacrifices I didn’t talk about was:
The social acceptance of ignorant people.
You see the way that I feel love and acceptance is by words of affirmation. It’s what is call my love language.
So to have people tell me I was stupid for trying this “Beachbody thing” And to have people, neighbors, friends talk about me behind my back about what they thought my motives were in the beginning was one of the biggest challenges and hurdles I had to overcome.
I had to learn to love myself and not seek acceptance of others.
No I’m not saying that everybody should be a Beachbody Coach, what I am saying is that you should seriously look into starting a business doing something that you absolutely love. Find something that forces you out of bed in the morning with excitement. I’m so confused why you put so much time into planning a vacation for a week or two that you can hardly afford and not put time into planning out how you want to actually live your life. In the current state of mind, perhaps ESCAPE seems easier than change.
This is not an invite for you to join our team. This is an invite to support others around you in going after their goals and dreams in life. This is an invite for you to take 10 minutes to yourself every single morning amongst the hustle and the speed of our day and age to really discover who you are and what you really want out of life.
When you decide what it is you want to do with your life, it’s going to be really hard and take a few years. But I can guarantee that it won’t be as hard as working the next 20 to 40 years doing something that you don’t enjoy and being away from those that you love the most.