Rules that change the rules
Other posts in the series “4 Hour Work Week”
- Dodging Bullets
- Rules that change the rules
Following is a series dedicated to the capture of my answers to end of section questions asked in the book, 4 Hour Workweek 
Page 37, Questions & Actions:
- How has being “realistic” or “responsible” kept you from the life you want?
- How has doing what you “should” resulted in subpar experiences or regret for not having done something else?
- Look at what you’re currently doing and ask yourself, “What would happen if I did the opposite of the people around me? What will I sacrifice if I continue on this track for 5, 10, or 20 years?
Because I’ve tended to be overly loyal to friends and “potential” rewarding situations in life, I believe I’ve created a haven for waiting just a little longer for the life I truly desire to be living. Whether it be continually helping friends in need, or committing long periods of time, energy, and life force to working at a situation that does nothing to get me closer to the desired outcome, the long term results have clearly been the same: my feelings of loyalty and responsibility to family and friends has done very little in getting me where I need to be.
Again, going back to making family commitments, choosing to do what seemed right and “honorable” in the end seemed much more wrong and detrimental to my progress in life. Too often, I’ve found myself expressing regret in ways none too positive. And while I’ve been fortunate to stay (mostly!) on the right side of the law, it becomes so incredibly easy to understand how lives of crime are perpetrated. By continually living the subpar experience of life, I’d tended to look for the excuses rather than the solutions.
Fortunately, and with a very real amount of ongoing, smart work, I’m at the very beginning stages of building a number of startups that should have me very much in the drivers seat of my life. I have asked myself this question in the past, and have taken more than 5 or 10 years to get to this point. Nothing is as clear to me as my personal hindsight.
Apparently, this is something that you only really comprehend when you are ready to learn. Not before!
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