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Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, How To, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 11 March 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This week's Good Life Project Riff is a reply to a question from one of our wonderful listeners.

You've spent your whole life working at something that pays the bills, something that gives you time to be with family. Life, on the whole, is pretty good. But the thing you're doing to put food on the table and a roof over your head is emptying you out.

You'd love to wake up feeling like the way you contribute to the world lights you up. But you have no idea where to start. And, you're not excited about the prospect of disrupting the rest of your life to make it happen.

So, what do you do? What's your first step?

I've written recently about first working to make things as good as you can get them, before blowing anything up. Whether you decide to eventually leave or even launch something on your own, the starting point is deepening your self-knowledge. Discovering who you really are and what matters. That's what this week's short and sweet Good Life Project Riff is all about.

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0:00.0	So what happens when you hit the middle years of your life and you realize, you know what?
0:09.8	This isn't going the way that I hoped it would go.
0:13.0	That's what today's Good Life Project riff is all about.
0:16.2	It actually comes from a question that was sent to me and I'm going to share that question
0:21.8	with the person who sent it's permission.
0:24.7	The reason I wanted to speak about this a little bit is because I get this question in so
0:29.7	many variations so often that I just thought it made sense to speak to it.
0:34.4	So here we go.
0:35.4	The email I received says, hi Jonathan.
0:38.2	And your most recent podcast with John A. Cuphead mentions that to live a good life is to
0:42.4	be who he honestly is and for that to be enough.
0:45.8	This makes a lot of sense to me.
0:47.9	But if I'm myself struggling to figure out who I am.
0:50.8	During the past 24 years of my life I spent the first six getting an education which put
0:54.8	me fairly deeply in debt.
0:56.9	I then dedicated the next several years to working to pay off the debt and during the
1:00.5	last 18 years all I've been doing is working my tail off for someone else.
1:05.1	What a waste of my time.
1:06.8	If I was to break my life into an average 24 hours a day I spent about seven sleeping.
1:12.7	There's nothing I can do about that except have a comfortable bed so far so good there.
1:16.7	I spent about five hours a day with my family.
1:19.1	Personally my family life is something I'm very proud of.
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