“But for a lot of people, the chain is building in the opposite direction of the life they really want. But they can’t see it happening because each link they added was so small and so logical that they never stopped to question the direction the chain was going.”
I woke up to this in 2020 and realized I was miserable. Made a series of unreasonable decisions, and have never looked back.
Post divorce-long, long ago-my life has been a series of wonderfully unreasonable choices. The places I've gone and the things I've seen! Life should be an adventure IMO and adventure isn't found in the status quo.
I wonder if the unreasonable choices weren't the real advantage.
They simply forced Justin to pay attention. The danger isn't making reasonable decisions, it's making them automatically, which raises a different question about whether people are trapped by their choices or by the momentum those choices create.
This rings so true. What’s reasonable or insane is based on other people’s standards and shoulds. Doesn’t mean it’s the right decision for us and usually isn’t because we’re all different. I had to learn this the hard way after chasing 3 decades within corporate only to realize my better choices are the ones that make others uneasy, but for me they’re the right ones and I’ve never looked back
I am living evidence that taking the opposite approach and making the ‘smart & reasonable’ decisions led to a very unfulfilling path… it took years for me to learn how to evaluate opportunities differently and I’m so glad I did.
Thanks for this!
Thanks for reading it.
🙏
“But for a lot of people, the chain is building in the opposite direction of the life they really want. But they can’t see it happening because each link they added was so small and so logical that they never stopped to question the direction the chain was going.”
I woke up to this in 2020 and realized I was miserable. Made a series of unreasonable decisions, and have never looked back.
Great read.
I appreciate that, Blythe. I know it wasn’t a short one, so thanks for reading it.
Yep. This touched a nerve. Well done. Thanks for sharing 🙏
Thanks for giving it a read, David. I much appreciate that.
Post divorce-long, long ago-my life has been a series of wonderfully unreasonable choices. The places I've gone and the things I've seen! Life should be an adventure IMO and adventure isn't found in the status quo.
I wonder if the unreasonable choices weren't the real advantage.
They simply forced Justin to pay attention. The danger isn't making reasonable decisions, it's making them automatically, which raises a different question about whether people are trapped by their choices or by the momentum those choices create.
This rings so true. What’s reasonable or insane is based on other people’s standards and shoulds. Doesn’t mean it’s the right decision for us and usually isn’t because we’re all different. I had to learn this the hard way after chasing 3 decades within corporate only to realize my better choices are the ones that make others uneasy, but for me they’re the right ones and I’ve never looked back
I am living evidence that taking the opposite approach and making the ‘smart & reasonable’ decisions led to a very unfulfilling path… it took years for me to learn how to evaluate opportunities differently and I’m so glad I did.