HOW PLANNING WILL HELP YOU SUCCEED

I get really amazed when I see people make comments that define my life in a nutshell with such ease then, I get sad because I know its all true.

I am a 28 year old IT consultant. Im happily married and I have 3 beautiful happy healthy children. I earn 220k a year working as a contractor through my own company. Just writing that down and reading it back makes me think “why am I unhappy?”

Im not unhappy at home. I love my wife and I love my children. I love being with them and watching them grow. I get immense satisfaction from being a husband and a father. I have heaps of awesome friends and my parents and siblings are all wonderful people who I love and get along with great. I suppose by now this is not making much sense? People may read this and think “who is this guy – whats he got to say about not being happy – get over yourself”…

“Most people in life do not feel successful because they really do not know what they want. This often leads to low self-esteem and sense of failure.”
This is me. My job gives me very little satisfaction. I have NO forms of passive income. I have no investments. I have NO PASSION for what I do. I want to make a plan but I sit down to write it and I cant. I just sit there. I know Ill own my own home in about 2 years but then I think – “wow, youll be 30, no passive income, no investments and no idea. Big deal you own your home – youre still gonna have to work in a job that you dont like for the next 40 years”…

See where I am at? My headspace is a mess. I should be the happiest dude in the world – and I am – AT HOME and with FAMILY but, work, passion, success – I feel as though I have none of that.

Rant over. The purpose of my post was merely to pay homage to the many people on this site (and mostly its founder) who have found passion and found success and satisfaction in their working lives. It is you people I envy and you people who I will become one way or another because I cant keep living like this – I need to start feeling alive!!!

Cheers and good luck to you – perhaps Ill post back here when I do whats required to make the CHANGE in my life. If nothing changes, nothing changes. Einstein’s definition of insanity “Doing the same thing over and over yet expecting different results”. Perhaps I have answered my own concerns here.

Thanks for reading my rubbish…

CHeers.

Thanks heaps for that Nigel…

I am going to take your advice – for real this time. I am going to somehow find some spare time and write some things down.

I shall post back on how my journey progresses.

Thanks again.

Hey,

Have you read the book "The 4-Hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferriss?
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/
Gives some interesting insight on what you can do once you have achieved sufficient cashflow.

The concept of mini-retirements as opposed to what I thought before of getting to the end and THEN concentrating all my effort on what I really want to work on.

NHG

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Hey Guys

I’m In the IT game as well, debating weather to go contractor or not.
Money seems really good, through the company my chargeout rate is around $160-180 p/h
If I left 3 customers have already said they would follow me.
Bear/Pat what you guys think, i’m 28yo and about to settle on first property.

This has been a great thread.

I remember i was in the same boat as you BEAR 09. I was in real estate working 100 hours a week earning big bucks, had a couple of investments etc. But  i was still not happy!! Why??  Because i truly thought that money was the most important thing on this planet.

Then at 25 years old i met this woman who know is my wife, we have bought a bussines in 2010 and it has been hard both financially and emotionally.  Two years later the bussiness  is running at a profit providing a good life style for my wife and i and i also work some where else earning good money too.

But i am very happy with where i am so last year i spent pretty much a whole year planning on what i want.
I can tell you since i wrote all my goals not only am i happier but my dreams and goals are know turning into a reality every day.

In life we some times to feel down in order to feel Up again.

I agree with having a plan, I don’t have one though. Where do you start? I say the usual, “I want money so I don’t have to work if i don’t want to”.

I’ve always thought about writing down a plan, but have no idea how to REALLY go about it, because I don’t know enough about how to get there.

Putting pen to paper can often be the hardest part. Why not get creative, pick up a big coloured A1 bit of cardboard from the newsagents, some highlighters/permanent markers/coloured pens and "draw" your plan out. A little creative female help can often be good for the not-so-creative males (or vice versa). Then stick it next to your bedroom door so you see it every single morning!