Build a new future

"Everyone has value in their own unique way, everyone has things that they enjoy doing. If you can find what your unique value is and combine it with what you enjoy doing then you have a recipe for a happy future" - #TPMBL

For over a decade I worked as a social worker until the day I burnt out. It was a job that I really enjoyed and was good at but it's a job where you must make a lot of sacrifices. It is a highly stressful, working environment. A lot of life sacrifices were made including missing out on many social and recreational events due to having to work odd hours. Apart from the long irregular hours and the stress there was also the daily commute. Driving 2 hours a day to get to work and home would mean over a full work life I would have spent a year in traffic. Imagine working 12-hour shifts and then sitting in the car for 2 hours. There really was no work-life balance.

So where to from here?

“My goal is to create a new future. I don't want a job, I want to create something that is rewarding and gives me the flexibility to live. An existence that is built around creating new memories every day instead of remembering back to a time I did this or that." - #TPMBL

With a lot of thought and reflection, I have come up with what I believe is the answer that I am looking for. This answer is not for everyone but for me my future plan will create the type of life that I want to lead. This is quite a multi-dimensional approach and each step leads into another avenue.

To begin I started studying Digital Communications at University. Digital Communications will give me the ability to work globally, and remotely whilst also allowing me flexibility. Digital Communications will give me a safeguard, a guaranteed income that I can always fall back to whilst I also actively pursue other

business interests. So what are these other ideas?

It starts with entrepreneurship and investments. The way I see it is a life of creating memories is not by working for money but by making money work for you. Creating financial freedom gives you the ability to live more in the moment. So that is why I am looking to create different streams of passive income. Passive income provides a daily cash flow whilst investment will create long-term security.

In this blog, I will not lay out my plan or give an in-depth analysis of where I am headed. I believe there are too many people trying to sell themselves as having the answers. I have a different notion, the answers will never be the same for everyone and must be tailored to each individual person. The best person to begin this process is you. Spend the time in deep thought, look at the value that you have, the value that you could provide to the world. Don't tell me you don't have value, everyone has value in their own unique way, everyone has things that they enjoy doing. If you can find what your unique value is and combine it with what you enjoy doing then you have a recipe for a happy future

As I continue to work on this goal I will post updates. The updates will not be where I am headed but where I have been. I will post the time frames that each step took. I will also post my failures. This will be done not has a blueprint for you to copy. My reasoning behind this is to give understanding that working towards goals takes time, there will be failures but there will also be successes. A big part of success is learning from your failures. Failure helps you to learn, to grow and build resilience.

I will say bye for now and hope you start thinking about your direction, what unique value you can add to the world, and how can you can combine what you love with a life of freedom. Please feel free to share your unique value, I would love to hear it.