Comments on: Slow going http://www.freefrom9to5.com/2005/09/20/slow-going/ Chronicles of people and ideas to inspire and achieve freedom from a 9 to 5 job Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:05:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David St Lawrence http://www.freefrom9to5.com/2005/09/20/slow-going/comment-page-1/#comment-2837 David St Lawrence Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:13:42 +0000 http://www.freefrom9to5.com/2005/09/20/slow-going/#comment-2837 It is easy to lose one's way toward the greater goal because of the confusions of everyday life. Continue blogging, whatever else you do and don't get into worrying about your lack of progress. Nothing just happens. You have to make it happen. Every day you lose focus is a day lost. You have to create your own magic. Remember to take breaks every day to refresh your humanity. Have coffee with a friend. Send an email to someone you care about. If you can't manage to do these simple things, you may be ignoring the presence of a toxic individual who is making less of every effort you make to improve yourself. I think you have it in you to achieve your goals. Don't lose heart. You may need to set and achieve some intermediate goals to get your spirits up and your creative juices flowing. Go for it! It is easy to lose one’s way toward the greater goal because of the confusions of everyday life.

Continue blogging, whatever else you do and don’t get into worrying about your lack of progress.

Nothing just happens. You have to make it happen. Every day you lose focus is a day lost.

You have to create your own magic. Remember to take breaks every day to refresh your humanity. Have coffee with a friend. Send an email to someone you care about.

If you can’t manage to do these simple things, you may be ignoring the presence of a toxic individual who is making less of every effort you make to improve yourself.

I think you have it in you to achieve your goals. Don’t lose heart. You may need to set and achieve some intermediate goals to get your spirits up and your creative juices flowing.

Go for it!

]]> By: Matt Breckon http://www.freefrom9to5.com/2005/09/20/slow-going/comment-page-1/#comment-2558 Matt Breckon Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:38:57 +0000 http://www.freefrom9to5.com/2005/09/20/slow-going/#comment-2558 I feel the same forces - the busier (or more productive) I become, the less time I have to spend writing about it. Oh, and wedding planning takes time (thankfully I didn't have to deal with too much of that for mine!) Congrats on the cut in journey time - wish I could do that. I went from a half hour walk to a half hour car journey. Now I should be spending extra time in the gym to make up for it! Try fitting an extra hours walking into the day! Everybody takes their own path to be free from the nine to five. I'm nowhere near yet - nor probably will be for 5-10 years or so (as a conservative estimate). I went to a talk by the co-founder of the Egg online bank (available in the UK at least) and I'm going to blog about it in the next few days but one thing he said was about visualising the end goal (in great detail) and work backwards from that. Perhaps that's useful. I feel the same forces – the busier (or more productive) I become, the less time I have to spend writing about it.

Oh, and wedding planning takes time (thankfully I didn’t have to deal with too much of that for mine!)

Congrats on the cut in journey time – wish I could do that. I went from a half hour walk to a half hour car journey. Now I should be spending extra time in the gym to make up for it! Try fitting an extra hours walking into the day!

Everybody takes their own path to be free from the nine to five. I’m nowhere near yet – nor probably will be for 5-10 years or so (as a conservative estimate).

I went to a talk by the co-founder of the Egg online bank (available in the UK at least) and I’m going to blog about it in the next few days but one thing he said was about visualising the end goal (in great detail) and work backwards from that. Perhaps that’s useful.

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