How to Do What You Really Want to Do

So you want to do what you really want to do, but just can't bring yourself to it; why is this?


If you're anything like me, you were raised and put in school where the main idea is in order to be successful, you must get good grades to get into a good college to get a good paying job. Work 40-60 hours a week, have an a-hole boss breathing down your neck at all times, earn a comfortable $50k+ salary, have a wife and 1.5 children and a house with a white picket fence.


While at first this all may seem nice and dandy, but there's few things wrong with this. I thought to myself, what if I don't want to work 40-60 hours a week? What if I want to earn more than $50k a year? What I don't want to have to ask permission from someone else to give me a raise?


I'm here telling you that you don't have to buy into any of these things that you were taught. You may disagree with me, and that's fine, but it is in my best experience that the people that have the most freedom, have the most money, and don't have a 9-5 J.O.B.


By the way, J.O.B. is an acronym. It stands for:


Just

Over

Broke


What if you're telling yourself "Yeah Tremain, that sounds great and all, but I can't just quit my job. I can't just willy nilly move to the city where I really want to live in and just marry whoever I want to marry and blah blah excuse excuse."


I will never recommend you just willy nilly quit your job. Many (read: majority) of people rely on their job as their main source of income. What happens when that main source stops? What will you eat? Where will you sleep? These are all very valid questions.


What I do recommend you to do is think about where you are at right now. Yes, right now, this present moment, as you are reading this. Are you satisfied with your life? Do you feel like your main purpose on this planet is being fulfilled? If your answer is yes to either of these questions, then why the heck are you reading this?? Go continue to fulfill your destiny!


If your answer is no to these questions, and if you're reading this it's most likely the case, then I strongly encourage you to start doing what you really want to do. No, don't quit your job just yet, I'm saying just take 30 minutes a day or even a week and focus on what you really are interested in. "But Tremain, I don't HAVE 30 minutes a day to spare!"


I'm here to say Bullshit! Everyone has 30 minutes a day to spare. "But Tremain, I seriously don't. I have 10 kids and 3 jobs and 2 wives and 15 cats and 34 dogs and I drive 4 hours a day just to get to these jobs and barely even have a second to eat I don't even sleep I just drink caffeine and eat caffeine pills and eat cheetos doritos and fritos because that's all the time I have to eat."


Okay fine. So you're busy. I get it. In one semester in college, I had 2 full-time jobs and took 21 units at the same time. I literally didn't have 15 minutes to sit down and take a breather because I was always doing something.


But here's the key. It's not the fact that you have the time, nobody has the time. You make the time. The saying goes "if you want to get something done, give it to the busiest person you know." While this may seem counter-intuitive at first, the busiest person you know probably has a very busy schedule. If they have a schedule that means they schedule stuff! "Tremain how did you get to be such a masterpiece genius?!" Haha! Simple Fact: the busiest person you know will allocate the time to get what they need to get done, and guess what, they'll get it done.


Bottom line is, figure out what you want to do, schedule time for it, and do it.


From there, schedule more time to do more of the things you really want to do. I know it's a saying that's along the same lines as beating a buried dead horse to a pulp and then jumping up and down and playing fetch with their bones with scruffy one of your 34 dogs..... but YOLO.


You

Only

Live

Once


This is true. As long as you aren't using it to give yourself a lame excuse to do something dumb "Oh look at this crack pipe I must smoke it! HASHTAG YOLO SWAG PARTY!" lol NO.


You only live once so you must do what you really want to do... or else why the heck are you alive?


Are you too scared to do what you really want to do? Do you think you aren't worthy compared to the people that are already doing what you want to do?


Good news is both of these worries are completely normal and natural. Here's a nice quote for ya:


"Every artist was first an amatuer"


-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Think about it!


Do you think Bill Gates flew (yes, flew) out of his mom's womb with a PC in his hand writing code for Microsoft? Was Mark Zuckerberg in diapers updating his Facebook page? Of course not! Both of these mega-rich entrepreneurs started in diapers and over time and effort and energy and lack of settling learned key skills that they applied and made a fortune out of.


"Oh but Tremain, it's too late. I'm already too old! Plus, all the good ideas are taken up already."


Evidence suggests this is simply not true.


The best ideas haven't even been thought of yet! Think about it this way. In the 1900's, people said the same thing. Boom, cars happened. In the 1980's, people were still saying it. Then boom, the internet.


As far as the age thing goes, you may have heard of a man by the name of Colonel Sanders. Colonel Sanders was a 67 year old sixth grade dropout on welfare when he sold his chicken recipe and started KFC. He lived another 23 years died a multi millionaire.


It's never too late to start.


Conversely, it's never too early either! "But Tremain, I'm only 12 years old. What can I do?! No one will take me seriously at this age."


Wrong again. Actually, the earlier you start, the better! If you're young, you have "the cuteness factor" working for you. Let me ask you this: who's going to sell more girl scout cookies; an 11 year old girl with enthusiasm or a 53 year old wrinkly woman smoker with a bad cough and no teeth?


Take it from 12-year-old Zach Marks from Melbourne Beach, Florida. Last year this young entrepreneur launched Grom Social, a free social network for teenagers and preteens under age 17. Within months he had over 7,000 users.


The earlier you start the better, but it's never too late. All it matters is that you start and never stop.


"A journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step"


-Lao Tzu


What I'm saying is get out there, start doing what you really want to do, and then who knows, perhaps one day soon you will be able to monetize what you like to do and earn just as much or even more than what you're earning at your job today.


"Nothin to it but to do it! Yeah buddy!"


-Ronnie Coleman



Wishing you the best in success!


-Tremain



P.S.


See you tomorrow! ;)