YOU CAN’T WIN IF YOU DON’T PLAY

Last Updated: 8/1/20 | August 1st, 2020

Looking back, what I keep in mind the most about workstation life was the utter boredom. Back before I started traveling, I worked in healthcare facility administration: very first in inpatient help (I was the person that greeted individual households when they came onto the units) as well as then in the administration office of the surgical treatment department.

There were five people in my office (all older than me). I helped one of the doctor’s as well as there commonly wasn’t much work so I spent a lot of of my days on MySpace as well as Friendster or reading the news.

And, when I came back from my very first trip in 2008 as well as returned to the world of healthcare facility administration, it was the boredom as well as big amount of downtime that led me to produce a travel blog.

Back then, everyday felt the same. I felt stale as well as uninspired.

“What am I doing wrong?” I would wonder. “After all, I work, go to the gym, go out on the weekends, as well as have great good friends as well as hobbies. Isn’t this the American dream?”

But something was missing. A piece of the puzzle wasn’t there. I felt like the person from the motion picture office Space. My mom utilized to state it was since I was in a task I didn’t love. when I discovered a passion, “work would be a lot more than work.”

It turned out she was right.

But I don’t get into the concept that “you can discover your passion” by sitting down with a pen as well as paper as well as thinking, “OK, I’m going to compose down my enthusiasm as well as just do that.”

I believe you stumble onto your passion.

You go out as well as online life as well as then, one day, realize: “this thing..this thing I’m doing now…is the thing that lights my terminate the most.”

Years ago, I understood a woman in Thailand whose uncle fell extremely ill. He was in the healthcare facility in Bangkok, as well as we were all not sure if he would make it.

My friend, a former advertising manager from NYC, realized while she was taking care of her uncle that was what she was passionate about. When her trip was over, instead of going back to her old job, she went to institution to ended up being a nurse.

My good friend Matt just recently got into gardening. He as well as his other half like growing their own food. With every new season, he discovers himself a lot more drawn to farming issues, land use, as well as gardening, as well as less thinking about his legislation practice. So much so that, after his other half completes her doctorate, they are trying to find a town for her to show in where they can get a farm as well as he can ended up being a farmer.

The exact same thing occurred to me.

When I very first started traveling, everybody believed I was crazy for providing up on the American dream. however I had found that the American dream didn’t in shape in with me. I was a circle trying to in shape into a square hole.

Once I started traveling, I discovered out that what I lived for was travel.

While there are lots of people who are fine with office work from 9 to 5, I am not one of those people.

It was only when I got out of my comfort zone as well as begin living life that I discovered out what lit my fire.

If you are dissatisfied or daydream your life away however want fantastic things, you have to make a change.

You have to get out there.

You can’t win the game of life if you don’t play it.

Sitting at house enjoying Netflix isn’t going to modification anything. You won’t lose weight if you don’t work out. You won’t satisfy people if you stay at home. You won’t discover your mate if you never go on a date. You’ll never understand if you can do a lot more if you don’t push yourself.

You have to do stuff, have hobbies, as well as show as much as the dance.

Life occurs outside your door. It is something you have to take part in.

The day I stop my task was the day I moved better to living the life I wanted. When I started my blog, I took one more step forward.

Every day I take one a lot more step to my suitable life — from reading 10 minutes longer, to cooking dinner, to signing up for archery classes (the Hunger games are coming), to discovering exactly how to garden, to joining social clubs, to biting the bullet as well as booking that affordable flight I found.

My life isn’t going to modification unless I make it happen.

Neither will yours.

A great deal can occur when you play the game of life.

But you have to play.

Even if you don’t “find your passion”, you’ll discover yourself. You’ll discover new things to be thinking about as well as new hobbies you love.

So stop daydreaming. Go out. Make the modifications you want.

Even if it’s just by reading for five minutes longer each day.

Small ripples ultimately grow into huge waves.
 

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