I did the exact same thing that many of you have done on a daily basis. Agonizingly getting out of cosy and comfortable bed on a Monday morning, getting ready and off to work bleary eyed and still feeling like I could sleep for a few more hours. There I was waiting for the next bus or train on a freezing cold winter’s day amidst thousands of other sombre faced individuals heading in the same direction as me day in and day out.
Squeezing on to public transport with a mass of individuals some rather aggressive and unfriendly, some depressed and filled with despair, there never seemed to be anyone smiling, happy and confidently focused on getting to their place of employment. The weekend seemed like a distant dream and now a full week of woeful work lay ahead and the cycle began all over again.
I remember feeling like the life was draining from me. I had no purpose and no direction. It all started to become so mundane, so stale and so debilitating. When was it ever going to end? Working for a miserable salary, making my boss rich, living from pay check to pay check and still having nothing to show at the end of another month was sickening.
I decided to reclaim my life. I was losing myself in this maze and I needed to find something that exhilarated me and made me feel liberated, passionate to rise and shine in the mornings and feel like I had accomplished and achieved so much more than the daily grind every day. When I decided to actively make the changes in my life, that’s when the dark, dismal shadow lifted and hope became a waking dream.
Going from employee to entrepreneur has been a transformation! No more rat race, no more commuting, no more boring board meetings, no more pithy pay check, no more office politics, no more regimented hours, no more restricted annual leave time, no more boss! How will you start your week this Monday?
