Desperate to Escape
Listen, I know exactly how it feels to be in that uncertain fog of “I don’t know what my future looks like but I know this ain’t it.” When you’ve got to drag yourself out of bed every day, put your bullshit clothes on for the costume you’ve got to wear, drive through bullshit traffic (which might look like bullshit tech issues logging on from home these days), then hold yourself together long enough so you don’t lose your shit on somebody at the end of the day... 😆It’s exhausting.
And then, when you’re finally off the clock, not knowing what you should be doing to escape the hellfire you experience every day - let’s just say, there’s a reason why popcorn and Netflix is everyone’s favorite activity.
But desperate to leave is much different from ready to move, my friend, and it’s important that you know the difference.
When you’re desperate to escape, you make decisions based on the worst conditions. You’ll use the experience you already have to determine the actions you’ll need to take to get to a new environment. And doing what you know… gets you more of what you already know.
For example, when you feel trapped by your corporate job cause they pay you so little it’s just sad, to solve that problem you’ll go looking for another job that’ll pay you more money. In fact, my guess is that’s how you’ve attempted to solve your problems in the past. And what do you get? More bullshit red tape and yada yada performance goals reasons why you didn’t get your promotion this year.
I’m not saying that the answer is entrepreneurship for everyone. I don’t think corporations are evil. But because they’re enterprises that attempt to be the biggest, baddest in all the land, there’s a lot of waste. And you don’t have to get lost in the fallback when they inevitably have to scale back.
To get yourself best prepared to get out, you need these 3 things:
An Active Imagination: being able to dream in 3D, full color, think IMAX theater level detail
Healthy Self-Regard: not the whiny “but I’m so good at this why don’t they see it” way, but the kind that doesn’t waver in the face of disregard or blatant attack
An Open Attitude: having a willingness to let things fly, to experiment, and to fail
If you want to leave, do it because you want something better for yourself. Not because what you’ve got is terrible. Cause in the grand scheme of things, it’s really not. It’s a launching off point for your next great adventure.