Hey, this is Triplineer, host of The New Man.

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Hey there, I'm Triplinear.

For over 10 years, I've been coaching people all around the world.

These are people that want to have great relationships, get out of ruts.

They want to do what they were put on this earth to do.

I also host the New Man podcast. You can find that on iTunes and Stitcher. Just search for the new man podcast. Today I want to talk to you about something

I am an expert in. It has a very technical term. And it's called dicking around. Dicking around is I'm

not really happy in the town I'm living in, but I'm going to dick around here for another three or four years before I actually do something and move. I'm not happy in the career I'm

at, but I'm going to dick around and stay in this career for the next few years until hopefully

something falls out of the sky. Not really happy in the relationship I'm in, but I'm not going to

do anything to actually level it up or anything. I'm just going to kind of tolerate it for years until hopefully something comes along and shifts things for me.

That's dicking around.

It's telling ourselves we don't know what to do, but not actually digging in and doing anything that might have us be uncomfortable or steer us into uncertainty.

Okay.

So here's a big story about where I was dicking

around. I dicked around for years when it came to my profession. I had a media production company.

I sold that company. I sold a house. And then I had a nice big wad of cash, which was a luxury.

What a luxury to have this big wad of cash. And that wad of cash allowed me to dick

around for years. I had a calling. Joseph Campbell says that, you know, we can, as part of the

hero's journey, we can heed the call. Well, I was heeding the call. I thought I was heating the

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