When is it the right time to break away from the "hum-drum" and embark on the new lifestyle that you truly desire?

Do you bide your time, building in enough security measures to minimise the chance of future failure or do you take the leap and trust that you will be taken care of in life? This is an interesting subject because I believe nearly all people know that the latter is the truly empowering option, but the reality of their fears of failure still stop them from believing, or having the faith in that process.

I am experiencing the very same myself. I know deep-down that if I follow my heart then I will be taken care of and I will find my ultimate goal, even if that ends up being a life vastly different from what I initially wanted.

The answer, as far as I can see it is still on this subject of clarity. Clarity is more important than anything. If you are absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt clear about what you desire to acheive, right down to the details and the emotions that you feel once you achive it then I imagine leaving your job to pursue it is a very easy decision to make, because there is no room for doubt to set in. Plans can change of course and things can go wrong, but if your focus is clear then you never lose sight and you never change direction in a panic at the wrong moment.

The clarity and thus the focus is what strengthens your awareness of what happens around you and the more aware you are of what is happening will provide you with the ability to notice those things that will bring you the succcess you desire. This is also the case if you find along the way something else that becomes your life’s goal. It is the commitment to actually walking the path that will give you the visibility of every opportunity along that path, which also brings me onto the word "Commitment". What is that? Many people believe that commitment means spending the majority of you time "doing" in order to honour the cause, but it is the very commitment to doing stuff and trying to figure out how it is to be achieved that stops the whole process being a creative one, instead becoming very monotonous, uninspiring and unfulfilling. How many people do you know spend hours everyday sending emails and leaving voicemails and who get very disheartened because nobody replies to their messages, so commitment is a state of mind, not a list of do’s and don’ts. Commitment is being true to your clarity of vision and not being veered off the path by doubt, fear or indecision.

The process of clarifying my vision is an ongoing one and it has got to the point where my belief is growing at an exponential rate. I am really excited about this. It will be time to say "Goodbye" to the office before too long!

"My intention here and now is to persevere and to successfully be able to meditate without the conversation going on inside my head that it’s so hard to do. Along with that I intend to discover resistance I am holding that is in the way of me acheiving my desires and to then eradicate that resistance."

When it comes to acheiving your desires, especially when they are big desires like a change of lifestyle, making a living by doing what brings you the most joy etc… I feel it is imperative to look inside yourself to find where you may have resistance to actually manifesting these desires.

It is your core beliefs that hinder or help in your journey to fulfilment and success, so from that I deduce that it is necessary to come from a place of feeling and being rather than from a place of thinking and doing. The best way it seems to acheive this and thus turning down the volume of your minds voice, which may be telling you all sorts of limiting untruths about yourself, is to meditate.

I have real trouble meditating. I just can’t switch off random and habitual thoughts. It’s as if my mind is fighting tooth and nail not to be silenced. In fact I’m sure that it is. In fact, what happens often is that as soon as I attempt to meditate I can’t stop yawning, or itching or I’ll sneeze.

This post is an explanation of the following post.

The next post will be a statement of intent. I will published it here to simply make public my intention, so as to bring some accountability to myself.

By stating it to the world, well anyone who passes by this blog, I feel more of a responsibility to carry it through. Also there is a tendancy sometimes to forget things. A good idea that gets forgotten that may have been "The" big idea or sometihng that you know is good for you, but somehow just gets lost in all the clutter that is your everyday life. Most often these things that get forgotten or left are fundamental to changing and I’ll be bold enough to suggest for the better or even in the very direction that you long for. Yes we ourselves are responsible for lost opportunities, let downs and all the other disappointments we may experience, but instead of using them as a sign of our less than perfect judgement or conduct and learning the lesson they contain we find an outside entity to blame. Either a person, a thing or a situation. I am just as guilty of that as anyone else, so that is why Leave The Office will include, as and when one arises an intention of mine, a promise if you like to honour myself and my duty as a person who has dreams of inspiring others as I have been inspired myself. If the intention is not realised then I won’t beat myself, or anyone else up about it, but I will accept the lessons the experience or failure teaches me about myself.

I invite readers to state their intentions, however big or small (they all count) in the comments of each INTENTION post. I’ll make this a feature of this blog. The good thing is that if I have nothing else to write I can make a statement of intent and be accountable for it.

I would also like to say thanks to a reader of this blog, who just when it looks like nobody is reading, he posts a comment, which often puts me back on track.

Thank you Digital Nomad.