Take Charge Of Your Life

 

Take Charge Of Your Life

For many of us, the life we imagine for ourselves is simply out of reach or leaves us with no clear road map to get there. Even when we’re able to be lucid about what we want professionally, we may be dealing with a monthly budget that won’t let us make those moves. Very often, we hear from young people who hate their well-paying jobs but have zero chance of leaving them in the next several years because those same jobs are the only thing allowing them to make their loan payments each month without having to rent out their bedroom while they live in their storeroom. And even in that unfortunate situation, there are still nightmares to deal with: they are so many people who are dealing with jobs that they hate and jobs that pay absolute shit but they need those jobs to pay for their sky-high monthly bills.

And this is why getting your financial situation in order is so important. Unless you have an iron grip on your budget, know what you’re spending and why, and have explored every possible avenue to diversify your revenue and money growth, you can’t expect to have much professional freedom. You have to have the financial stability to pursue your professional dreams — this means being brutally honest about your spending habits and lifestyle, and deciding where you can cut to make room for a little more flexibility and time. Point-blank, the more control you have over your financial destiny, the more control you’ll have over your professional path.

Saving, living below your means, and diversifying your income often make the difference between being stuck in a job you can’t stand and having the freedom to move on to something better.

Having a career that is both fulfilling and successful also means deciding who you want to be and working on becoming that person in more than just daydreaming. What time do you want to wake up? How do you want to look walking into the office.? How good do you want to be at things like networking or public speaking?

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One of the most useful and liberating pieces of advice I ever received was: “Put a value on your time and start measuring your wealth not in money but in freedom. Ever since then, I‘ve been thinking in terms of the value I get out of an hour spent, and how I can maximize that value per hour so that I get more done in a smaller amount of time and still have more freedom to pursue both the things I love and the things that help me grow within the context of my professional life.

Hobbies, classes, learning a new skill, and taking on a side hustle, are all essential components of a fulfilled life, but they can so easily get trimmed from the to-do-list if we start prioritizing only the things that immediately make us the most money. Ultimately, a job, no matter how much you love it, will never hit every note for you, and it shouldn’t. We should all strive to find multiple streams of fulfillment, challenges, and income. The more we rely on one role, the unhealthier our relationship with that role becomes.

I’m all for a side hustle, and not just because it allows you to reach your financial goals, it’s also wonderful, in general, to have a few other things to focus on and give yourself to things that perhaps demand and grow different skills and remind you that there is a whole goddam life out there of your main job. 

When I was younger, I was f — -king up at my jobs so badly because I was only looking up at my life in the short term and refusing to think or plan for the future. I wanted to take the quickest and most painless way out every time, which only compounded my problems and limited my choices in the long term. And there are still many times when I face down these impulses — when I choose to watch more TV instead of going to that interesting-sounding workshop or allow my laziness to turn what should be a two-hour task into a two-day chore.

We all need to define what a career means, how to create one on our own terms and how to get our finances in the right place to make attainable some of the bigger dreams we have. Ultimately, we are all CEOs of our own lives and that means every hour should be accounted for and well compensated, according to our own personal standards of wealth and happiness. 

That’s all for now my friends. See you all in my next article.

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