Epiphany

I’ve had an Eat, Pray, Love moment. For the last week I was away from my office job at training out of town then went on a small family vacation. Waking up and getting ready for work this morning was gut wrenchingly difficult. I’m sure everyone reading this can relate to having had this same or similar feeling. Well, today I’ve decided to finally try to do something about it.

I come from a family of hard working individuals. My entire life, I’ve seen that a good life is the result of hard work. Although working hard at trying to achieve my dream of becoming a classical musician didn’t work out, I always maintained my hard working mantra at any job that I had.

But today, I realized that I’ve been working harder- not smarter.

There are opportunities today that are becoming more well-known and common. The internet provides a wealth of opportunity to possibly become financially and creatively independent. Climbing higher into my 30’s may contribute to some delay in realizing that blogging or working more independently doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t be working hard. I have been continuing under the impression that hard work means working in an office or in some sort of corporate profession until you could reasonably retire at whatever preconceived age society deigned appropriate.

Why not apply hard work to blogging and working independently? Why would I possibly think these things took more luck than hard work? If there is a way for me to possibly obtain financial independence in a creative way with an opportunity to spend more time with my family, why shouldn’t I apply the hard working skills I’ve used all these years to this kind of opportunity?

So, here goes nothing. Or, here goes everything.