Before when I used to work in an office, I would stumble out of bed, stumble to the bathroom, stumble into my clothes, stumble to the door, into the car, out of the car, into the office, through work, through the day, through life.
Everyday, was the same and I was pretty unhappy. That was, until I decided to do something about it.
The thing I love about being able to work from home is that I get to design my day. I get to choose to an extent what I do and when I do it. I’m not saying this so much to brag (maybe alittle), but more to make a point, and the point is that now I am more in control of my life than I have ever been.
So what’s the big deal about having control? Well, if you are the type of person who feels run by your job, i’m sure you can appreciate the ability to be in control. When you are in control of your time, of when, where and how, you have the power of choice. That is the key to living purposefully.
When you have a choice, you are forced to make a decision. You are forced to decide what you will do with your time and freedom.
Most people do not need to make this choice, as this choice is made for them the moment they clock into work. For 8 hours a day, you don’t need to decide anything that is pivotal to the improvement of your existence on this planet. You just need to sit, stay and do your job like a good office worker.
By the time the work day is over and you head home, there really aren’t many decisions left to be made either. The things you must do upon leaving the office include eating and sleeping. The things you could do may include hanging out with friends, playing the PS3, going to the gym, watching a movie and any number of things to relieve the stress from the work day.
Anyway, before I digress, back to my point of living purposefully.
When the 8 hour block of your work day is gone, nobody is going to tell you what to do with that time. It can even seem like a scary prospect at first. It’s like someone giving you a million dollars.
At first you’re going to spend all the money on the things you think you want, like toys,cars,tv, travelling, a whole bunch of fun stuff. Eventually though, you hit a point where all these things just don’t give you that excitement, happiness or even fulfillment that you used to.
The same with working from home. You’ll feel like you have all the time in the world to sleep, watch tv and play video games, but after awhile it gets old. You don’t feel the fun in it anymore and you want to do something meaningful, something that makes you feel like your life has purpose.
So if I had to draw my own map of how I live purposefully, it would look something like this.
- Have the thing I want the most – Work From Home
- Do everything I ever thought I could do because I can work from home – Sleep till noon, watch movies all day, play video games
- Realize that all that stuff doesn’t make me happy and start thinking seriously about what I could do to make my life feel more meaningful and do it – BINGO
Once you’ve gone through those stages, living purposefully is going to be something you do automatically in order to make yourself happy. It is a natural human goal to find ones purpose. The problem is that most people never get to step 1 and they spend their entire lives bouncing between feeling stressed and finding temporary release from it.
Working from home has given me a means of living my dream of being in control of my time and not feeling stress on a day to day basis. From achieving that I was eventually able to discover the thing that made me feel like my life had meaning.
Now instead of waking up in a zombie like state, I wake up and I know exactly what I want my life to be and what I want to do with my day. I hope that one day you will be able to experience this as well cos seriously, it is awesome.
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Yasuo Long believes that all employees should have the right to design their lifestyle according to their needs in order to maintain their health, their relationships and their happiness. In pursuit of this, he quit the 9-to-5 and became a telecommuter to give himself the time and mental freedom to discover what it really means to live with direction and purpose.
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Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now. Keep it up!
And according to this article, I totally agree with your opinion, but only this time!
Looks like i’m going to have to keep writing then
. Thanks for the support =).