Welcome to Leave the Office. My name is Rob Cooke.
After a desire to change my life and leave the 9 to 5 office way of living I started this blog, which now sees me living the life of my dreams. I intend to inspire you to do the same if that is something you desire to do yourself.
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It is Just a Step From Where You Are To where you want to be. This is the philosophy behind the 'Longing to Living' concept. Not sure what that means? It's quite simple. Most of us, including myself once upon a time, spend most of our lives longing for something, whether that's a different lifestyle, less stress, our ideal partner or whatever else you may happen to long for. It has become more acceptable to people these days, the notion of focusing more on what you want in order to bring about more of what you want. Makes sense really doesn't it? However ...
Which direction are you moving in? When I first set out to change my lifestyle, my dream was to leave the office. The irony was at the time that I was not working and so after setting an intention I jumped straight into the very thing I wanted to leave behind: An office job! Of course that may sound a bit crazy and totally in the opposite direction of what where I wanted to go, but it was in perfect alignment to my vision and this is the point I want to highlight because it is important, it will help you understand ...
Boy@Heart is Where it's at! If you have been here before and enjoyed the articles here, you may have gathered by now that I am a recording artist and a musician. In fact I have developed over the last couple of years to point where I can call myself a singer/songwriter. Recently I decided that I wanted to focus more energy in this area, which of course means having to organize my other project, like Leave the Office. However, seeing as LTO is still very relevant to the manifesto I have with my music, it is a project that I will continue ...
I should imagine so! I'm sure I'll discover what it is sooner or later. Being a person who is full of ideas and seems to embark on a new venture whilst still getting existing ones up to speed, it may be some time until I discover if indeed there is a purpose to the Leave the Office Unofficial Podcast. I have one possible idea for it and whether that comes together is dependent on whether a few inspiring friends of mine are interested in getting involved, but it's not top of the list of priorities right now, unless you want to see ...
The Many Loops of Life Life is circular. There are a number of things most of us are aware about to support this view of things, like Karma and nature to name just the obvious ones. Look at nature. We see the life-cycle of many things around us, yet often don't realize that we are part of this cycle, living a cycle of our own. We dwell too much on the beginning and end of things, which often boils down to our fear or disappointment of having "all this end" some time, or even "When will this end?". It doesn't end folks, it ...
Mmmm Experts? I Read an interesting article on the BBC website recently, except the only thing useful I got out of it was the inspiration to write this article. I'm always amazed at the "We have the deifinitve answer" statements made by some scientific researchers. It's very closed-minded and not the most useful approach to researching matters of psychology, but there you go. So back to this article - linked here for you to agree or disagree with. It appears that research has concluded that 'self help' can actually be bad for you because people with low self esteem feel worse after ...
Can it really be that simple? We as humans do seem to have a love for over-complicating things. If there is a simple solution then we will often not trust that it can possibly be right, so we go in search of something more complex and time consuming. Maybe it's something to do with our fears and so is just another way to continue putting things back and taking more time, so we can still have the looming restriction of time to blame for many of our problems and lack of progress. I can be quite a procrastinator and a very clever ...
Do Only What You Love. Is This Just Possible? I'm going to be really imaginative now and write an article about the current economic crisis! Wow, what can be said that hasn't been said already? Well actually I don't know if what I've got to say has been said already or not. Probably most of it has, but I still want to get something across that I thought about today, which is something I think is crucial to consider for our future from this moment onwards. I am feeling particularly good. My wife is pregnant, it is our first child ...
Information Overload Recently I posted a song over at The Weekly Songcast called Overloaded. over the last week I have begun to see a parallel with that song and the amount of information I have been receiving in my email inbox recommending products that will change my life, make me more money and clear away all my problems. Well I have nothing against this, but it has reminded me of something that I went through a while back when I first started to purposefully and consciously take steps towards the life I wanted and what I went through was information overload. I ...
In August 2007 I started using The Holosync Solution: An audio meditation program on CD. This was shortly after I started investigating the process of Neural Reconditioning, which actually inspired me to start a website - The Neural Recon Report, which is part of the Leave The Office Network. Well Holosync was certainly a big deal in terms of taking my life in the direction I desired. At first I didn't really notice anything, but it has since become quite apparent to me that Holosync has made me a totally different person, for the better I may add and continues to ...
Photo: Phoebe Are you a hard worker? If so, in all honesty does it pay off? I ask this because the more I look around these days, especially as I adapt to a life where I am thinking about things in a totally different way to the way I used to, I see hard work as "wrong turn" in life. Somewhere a very grave error of judgement was made and now you find yourself being a hard worker and as irony would have it the world seems to be full of people who don't work as hard as you do and ...
After watching the movie The Secret in early 2007 I was extremely excited at the prospect that I could be the author of my life instead of just following a script that I was given. To live life by design rather than just living life by default. However, it still seemed to me like it had left something out, but I seem to remember being impressed with Bob Doyle, who was one of the teachers featured in the movie. Many people, after watching The Secret can be forgiven for thinking its message is that if you wish hard ...
I bought The Secret of Deliberate Creation after a while of deliberation in December 2008. What got me interested was the claim that the course creator, Dr Robert Anthony has uncovered the secret that was alluded to but never directly mentioned in "Think and Grow Rich", a book by Napoleon Hill. Seeing as the book and movie The Secret was inspired by this book and the fact that Dr. Robert Anthony played a large part in the creation of that book and movie I saw this claim as a potential revelation in getting the Law of Attraction to work for ...
February was a pretty eventful month, what with me rising to a creative challenge and succeeding in writing 15 songs in just 29 days. I'm very happy with that achievement. What also happened in February was that I resigned from my current job, so in two months I will be saying goodbye to The Office! It seems I will now, in some ways be able to practice what I preach in that I will have officially left the office and will be following my passions with the intention of making a very successful living doing what I love. It's quite amazing ...
An exciting time is approaching. I can't really say much, but I will be making real an intention quite soon and that is confirmed fact, not speculation. What happens exactly when I do leave the office is not yet clear. I may find myself in another office, but if that is the case then it will be an office very different from the type of office I have become used to in the UK. In fact now I have quite a fondness for "The Office" because I realize that trying to escape or leave something is quite futile, seeing as the reality ...
Sometimes I sit down and just write. I'll write anything and everything that pops into my head. Sometimes so many things are queued up waiting for my writing hand to catch up that some thoughts that come out disappear and get forgotten before I put pen to paper. I have been trying lately to do this as often as possible. In fact I think it will serve me well to practice this every day as I think anyone who wishes to grow should do. This very post is a result of such activity today, edited of course into a context of ...
This post is something I wrote down in my notebook a few days ago when I was feeling a little sad about returning to the UK from Thailand. What I realize today is that I have been aimlessly looking for something or somebody to provide me with a solution for "having it all", being happy etc. This is not what I am truly searching for. I felt something today which, from now on I will always refer to as The Feeling. What I am really searching for, deep down is the power, strength, confidence, however you want to describe it to ...
Bob Doyle, creator of the Wealth Beyond Reason program and one of the teachers featured in "The Secret" movie has made another video podcast in response to many questions people have about the Law of Attraction: For example with respect to religious beliefs, the media and science. That particular one, I think is one of Bob's best responses so far as it's important to realize that no religion is called into question when discussing the subject that we all create our own reality. I'll let Bob explain this as he is far better at doing so than I am! You can also ...
After being invited to write a post about 10 things that happened to me by Joanne I wasn't sure if I could remember 10 things that had happened to me that would actually be interesting to read. Still, after Joanne kindly tagged me I started to write without having a list planned first. It took a while, but here it is. It's been quite a journey of self discovery!. As I write I have just had an idea. Seeing as I am enthusiastically in the process of discovering what habits and patterns I perpetuate that create the results I currently have ...
In a post I made in July about having some "Car Trouble" I told the story of how I attracted a large amount of drama into my life during a period of a week or two. My life since has not seemed anywhere near as dramatic since then, which I see as good, although it gives me less interesting material to write about! Still I am not going to wish for any particular situations one way or another regarding this due to what I am about to mention in this post. It is the following chapter in the story. One month ...
What You Wish For "Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it" This is not just a saying. A saying exists for a reason. It has been said for a very long time, handed down through generations until nobody knows where it came from and then it just becomes a cliché that nobody really takes seriously. I would like to explain how this saying is more powerful than you could possibly imagine and why people fall prey to it all the time. People assume that it is saying that you might get what you want, which might ...
I attended a wonderful event on Sunday 5th August called AKASHA 2007 in London. Four truly great speakers who shared their wisdom and insight with us all day at the Palladium Theatre made the day one to remember for so many different reasons, mainly due to the fact that they all had very different energy to each other, making the event a very complete experience from spirituality to entrepreneurialism to reinforcing the message that we must all follow our dreams. We were all treated to some great inspiration from the following speakers: Bob Proctor, who features in "The Secret" ...
Bob Doyle is a guy I have a great deal of respect for, so whenever there is any news from him I always take notice. Today is such a day and thus gives birth to this post. If you don't know already, Bob features in the movie "The Secret" and explains things in a very practical way. There's nothing "New Age Hippy" about Bob Doyle! This is one of the reasons that what he has to say always interests me. Now if you know about "The Secret", you may have some opinions on the message that it gives. I'm not ...
I returned to England in the evening on 11th May, but this time, although I didn't really want to be here and despite missing my beautiful lady enormously, I didn't feel down-hearted. I still don't feel down now, sitting in the office on the night shift all by myself! Why? Well I think it's because this truly feels like a temporary situation. Something inside of me shifted during my trip. I just have a feeling of certainty that I'll be back there pretty soon and for a much longer period of time. I met a few very inspiring people ...
Wow! It is a great feeling sitting outside my room with a view of the ocean and the beach, writing this post. The last couple of mornings I have woken up late, maybe due to the re-adjustment of the time difference, but I still found the motivation to go for a run on the beach after breakfast. Admittedly I didn't last long doing that, but I went for a swim in the sea instead. The sea looks calm here, but the waves pull you right out and then wash you right back again, such is the power of nature. The biggest bonus ...
Leave The Office is changing... Well actually it would be more accurate to say that it is evolving as I have mentioned already in a recent post Don't Fight The Process Since I started this blog I have experienced some profound changes. Through people and things I have discovered on this journey I find myself in a very different place to where I was in November 2006 when Leave The Office started. After several failed attempts to fulfil my ambitions around my passion for music over the last few years and finding myself repeatedly back at the beginning of a cycle each time ...
Leave The Office is evolving I have no control over this as I am making an effort to feel my way through the development process rather than try and anticipate what people want to read or write what I think I should in order to keep the subject matter on track with my initial idea. I am being drawn into a direction of writing, which I am not comfortable defining. I don't see myself as a motivational expert or teacher in any way, but with the experience of learning that I seem to be having at the moment compells me ...
I have come to realise that there are no permanent loose ends in life. Whilst tying up any current loose ends always helps gain progress and clarity, recent experience has shown me that faith in the infinite process of life always results in those loose ends resolving themselves. Since writing my post on The Law Of Attraction I have had a profound shift in my awareness of my everyday life and my way of being;- areas where I hold myself back and those where I progress with ease are becoming more obvious to me and gradually providing me with the tools ...
As the train trundled along through the darkness this evening I gazed out on the passing scenery feintly illuminated by scattered urban light. As I looked I noticed a face looking in on me, like an apparition. My immediate, involuntary response was to smile at him and he smiled back with an air of confident knowing. It was like he knew something, something big. This knowing, confident smile became a huge beaming one and filled me with a feeling of such great strength and utter joy it was somewhat overwhelming. I was grinning from ear to ear by this stage! No ...
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I have always felt out of place in a typical day-job and in an office environment. Some may say that is because I am lazy or workshy, but what's lazy about changing your life and living your dream successfully, doing what you love and facing more personal challenges than any stagnant office job?
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