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The Ultimate Decision: Your Money or Your Lifeby Valerie Young Send Feedback to Valerie Young Career change resource for entrepreneurMore Details about Career change resource for entrepreneur here.
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When you discover your True Calling, you may find your life taking you in unexpected directions.
You see, anyone can get a 9-to-5 (or maybe for you it’s more like 8-to-late) J-O-B. A job is something that pays the bills but all too often fails to feed the spirit. And when your spirit is starved for meaningful satisfying work, your happiness suffers. But that’s not all.
Do you believe you were put on this earth to sit in commuter traffic, to suffer through the performance evaluations and reorganizations, to have to answer to a boss that is well… you know….
Were you really created to spend your life having the Sunday night blues?
Or Do You Believe, As I Do, That You Were Put Here to Follow a Calling That Is Uniquely Yours? If the idea of loving what you do appeals to you, the way I see it… here are your options: You can keep plodding along week after week hoping that inspiration will somehow, someway suddenly strike and – in a flash – your true calling will be revealed.
Your Money or Your Life is based on Joe and Vicki's popular seminar "Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence" and the authors offer themselves as living proof that the program works. In 1969 at age 31, Joe retired from his job on Wall Street "never again to accept money for any of his work." Vicki met Joe that same year and began applying his financial principles which allowed them both to serve as full-time volunteers working with various community service projects in sync with their values.
Vicki later founded the New Road Map Foundation, a non-profit charitable and educational foundation and began to lecture widely on the topic of financial independence. Like Joe, she receives no compensation for her speaking engagements. In fact, the New Road Foundation is staffed entirely by volunteers, none of whom receive any salaries, royalties, honorariums or personal expenses — including Joe and Vicki. Instead, all proceeds are donated to causes that reflect the authors' values.
The Steps to Freedom You're probably wondering how these two pay the bills without a paycheck. The answer, they'll tell you, lies in following nine steps. To give you a general idea of how the program works, step two asks you to add up all the time and money that goes into having a job: buying work clothes, getting ready for work, commuting, hiring others to do things you have no time to do, as well as the things you do to help decompress from work like escape entertainment, vacations, dining out and so on. It can be a rude awakening to learn for example, that when you calculate the time and money required to maintain your job, high hourly earnings can easily translate to something closer to minimum wage.
Applying the first seven steps of the program for a few months puts you in a position to fairly accurately project how much time it will take before you reach what is called the "crossover point." Your crossover point is the point in time at which you can expect be financially independent. Of this time Joe and Vicki write: "Take a minute to think about what would happen if you knew that you would have to work for money for a limited, foreseeable length of time (say five years) instead of that vague limbo of working until traditional retirement... For people who are highly motivated to leave paid employment in order to follow another dream, the ‘finite period of time' is like the lure of the stables to a horse heading home after a long ride. The homing instinct takes over and you fly toward the goal."
If you've been dreaming of a way to get off the earn-more-to-buy-more treadmill so you can spend your "life energy" on the things that matter most, Your Money or Your Life may be just the wake-up call you need.
[Note: Sadly Joe Dominguez died of cancer January 11, 1997. His work lives on through the thousands who have changed their lives through his example.]
Valerie Young abandoned her corporate cubicle to become the Dreamer in Residence at Changing Course, a career change website for people who want be their own boss and work at what they love. Her career tips have been cited in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Woman's Day, MSN, CareerBuilder, and iVillage. Go to http://ChangingCourse.com/ebook.htm for a free report on how you can make a career change that gives you the freedom to do work you love.
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