If you are reading this while sitting in a neutral tone cubicle covered in yellow sticky notes, hunched over your monitor trying to block it from being viewed by peering co-workers in the next cube over; then this site is for you.

If you are reading this late on a Sunday evening, dreading the return to the office on Monday morning and all the mindless paperwork you know awaits you; then this site is for you.

If your job leaves you feeling unfulfilled, if it all seems meaningless, if you can feel deep inside yourself that there has to be something more to life than this, that you were meant for greater things; then this site is for you.

If you have the urge to quit your job, sell everything you own and buy a round-the-world ticket for the adventure of a lifetime, but fear and anxiety are holding you back; then this site is for you.

If this sounds like you rest assured that you are not alone.  I am in the same boat as you right now.  The feeling of being unfulfilled in my job and life started creeping up a little more than a year ago.  Then when I turned 40 things really started to seem dismal.  My life felt like a suffocating blanket, I felt trapped with no hope of escape and everything I did seemed so meaningless and robotic.  I’d lost passion for the things I was doing.  And the things I wanted to do seemed so far out of my reach as to be impossible to obtain.  I started to ask myself questions.  Maybe you have asked yourself a few of these as well.

What is it all about?

There has to be more to my life than this?

I’ve got dreams but they seem so unrealistic?  How can I really do that?  It sounds so crazy!

How can I get more time to do the things I want to do in life instead of working all the time?

These questions then lead into frustration as we see no way out of our current situation.  We start thinking “I’ll never amount to anything” or “I’ll never be able to do that” or my most frequent thought “I’ll never have the money to do that”.

The problem with these questions and thoughts is that they feed negativity into our system.  We start to feel bad about ourselves.  We quickly start to believe that we will never be able to do the things we want to do in life.  And to make matter even worse, often times when we share these dreams with our family and friends they reinforce the negative thinking because they too are caught in the same trap.  They doubt the possibility of their dreams too.  I’ve been there.  Negativity breeds more negativity. 

The turning point for me came after reading Timothy Ferriss’s book “The 4-Hour Workweek”.  Reading through that book I realized that there were options out there for realizing my dreams.  We don’t have to continue to be trapped in an unfulfilled life that leaves us drained at the end of each day.  We don’t have to be caught up in the life deferred plan that everyone else seems to be living, where we work toward the end goal of retiring at a ripe old age with a small nest egg made even smaller by inflation or other economic conditions.  Instead we can integrate retirement now and live life to the fullest.  We can free up time to do the things we really want to do.  We can live life now!

Right about now you probably have a bit of skepticism and are probably asking the same questions that I am.  How?  How can I overcome my fears?  How can I come up with the finances to fund my dreams?  I don’t have the answers to those questions right now but my intent is to search out those answers and apply them to my life.  This site is about realizing your dreams, taking responsibility for your life and taking the steps necessary to make those dreams happen now. Throughout this process I will document the steps I take to obtain my dreams.  You will have a front row seat to how I do it.  Even better let’s do it together and challenge each other to continue to move forward even when the going gets tough.  What good is a dream if there is no plan or hope for realizing it?

In my next article I am going to talk about dreamlining (another concept I picked up from “The 4-Hour Workweek”) and how I struggled through that process (it wasn’t easy).  I will challenge you to create a dreamline for yourself which will help you to clarify your dreams and put together a plan of action.  Together we can Live Life Now.