{"id":2443,"date":"2015-04-06T08:13:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T12:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2015-04-06T08:13:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T12:13:32","slug":"are-you-living-the-life-you-imagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/2015\/04\/06\/are-you-living-the-life-you-imagined\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you living the life you imagined?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we are kids, we imagine what our lives are going to be like when we grow up. As we get older, most of our \"a6b6443365e3088c26c848bb9f86f23f\"<\/a>aspirations for the future become more \u201crealistic\u201d. We\u2019re expected to have our future figured out by the time we\u2019re ready to complete high-school.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re like me, you were told that the right thing to do is to pursue a higher education, get a great high-paying job, get married and have kids. I thought that was the formula for success: education + marriage + children = success. If you\u2019ve been reading my blogs for a while, then you know I recently turned 40. At this stage in my life, the only part of this \u201csuccess\u201d formula that I have achieved is education.\u00a0 Does that mean I have failed?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t believe that I have failed. I didn\u2019t know at 18 or 19 all of the options that were available to me. I knew what I was passionate about, but I didn\u2019t know how to monetize it. At that age, I never would have considered becoming an entrepreneur. I had been told that there was security in a career. If I wanted a high-paying, well-respected career, I needed to have a degree. Once I graduated with my Bachelor\u2019s degree, it didn\u2019t take too long for me to think that wasn\u2019t enough and that I needed to upgrade to a Master\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n

Despite having all sorts of letters behind my name, I still struggled to realize the earning potential I was told would be at my fingertips with the education I had. I know many of you can relate to the frustration of doing everything you\u2019re \u201csupposed\u201d to do, and not getting the results that everyone told you would happen. I don\u2019t have any regrets about the education I have. I know that the skills and knowledge I learned along the way have allowed me to function more efficiently and be more open to shifting my perspective on many things.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not living the life I imagined as a child, a teenager or even in my early thirties; it\u2019s actually better. I remember hearing when I was in my first year of my Master\u2019s degree, that you\u2019re dream job is something that you would be willing to do for free. In my early twenties, that sounded like crazy talk, but now I get it. It took me a long time to figure it out, but I\u2019ve found something I love to do that doesn\u2019t feel like work most days. I love what I do and I don\u2019t dread getting out of bed on a Monday morning.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not living the life you imagined, and your current experience isn\u2019t better than expected, what can you do to make it better? What do you need to do to get excited about the future again? Most of us know what we want; we just allow the voices in our head and the peanut gallery around us to tell us we can\u2019t have it, or that we missed our change. It\u2019s time to put those voices on mute and do whatever you need to do to begin your journey to living the life you want!\u00a0\u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we are kids, we imagine what our lives are going to be like when we grow up. As we get older, most of our aspirations for the future become more \u201crealistic\u201d. We\u2019re expected to have our future figured out by the time we\u2019re ready to complete high-school. If you\u2019re like me, you were told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[140,877,878,879,880,502,881,882,422,527,883,537,588,884],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughtoftheday","tag-career","tag-children","tag-customs","tag-dream-job","tag-dream-life","tag-embrace-your-destiny","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-marriage","tag-obligation","tag-responsibility","tag-risk","tag-sandra-dawes","tag-success","tag-tradition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}