You created something meaningful right here! (yet again)
I can so much relate to you two, have started a doable monthly hour "carreer" here this year and I find I am working overtime like crazy, going to bed right after coming home, preparing for work with everything else cut to zero suddenly.
I meet many somehow familiar people on the job and I feel blessed with all the outright psychedelic moments and experiences that occur, which I really didn't expect... All I thought I wanted to do with this is save some money for a great journey. Now I am seeing I am getting know-how, more social competency and facing my inner weak points through all the different people I meet on jobs and their own sticking points. It's a great school in fact.
But here's the thing: Despite all my passions resting totally because of all the overtime (heck I write Steem stuff on the train to work cause there literally is no time at night or in the morning unless I want to sleep less than 5 hours regularly) I feel outright motivated and on fire. Because I have this plan going!!!!! I finally made a concrete enough draft of my mission and ever since it has become my engine for every job I do in the matrix.
Cancelled my apartment, will move to a friend for a while who invited me into his house for a little while while I keep working overtime, then take that bit of saved money on the road and do workaway.info while working on my passions for the majority of the day. Writing, making my album, writing two books. Should more than make up for the "quit" matrix job once the time comes.
In talking to my colleagues who all do it as a regular job (no end in sight, week in week out without much vision), they are well-spirited but still stuck. And they really don't know where it will go. In contrast I see I can give this job so much these days (my ALL in fact!) *because the end is already in sight and agreed upon and my exxodus and execution of my vision is coming closer with every work day... And somehow that was long overdue, making the commitment. The commitment has transformed everything here. But I could not commit until I had it worked out loosely enough to make the universe manifest it in a way it sees fit, but concrete enough so my ego could be satisfied knowing I would not bail on everything with zero cash and no idea what to do out in the world that's driven by money.
The harshest thing is the recurring payments the system is slowly amping up all the time, we must find alternatives that work with our vision and plan! I think we'll be happier once we find a way to not need that much money just to get by instead saving the cash we make on the job or slowly building our vision up, investing in it for the long haul to switch over to that mode of life once we have our vision in our mind to a concrete enough degree.
And when there is a mission or a loose plan then the entire attitude towards spending too much time at work changes - because it all aims to support you on your journey to come.
Wanted to do this for years (but didn't find the mission!) and now that I have made the commitment and know what I want life is busy as it never has been but in its busy-ness utterly satisfying knowing this phase will come to an end sooner than I would like in order to start THE REAL JOB - MY LIFE.
Get the mission, forge a plan of the rudimentary factors, execute. Where, how and what exactly is up to the universe <3
And though I am not saying I am "out of the woods yet" or that this is for everyone, I wanted to share this with you two when I read this ultra relevant post and your comment to it. I can only recommend it, and I KNOW you BOTH have amazing skills. Maybe they are waiting to be put down in commitment terms (as a sign of readiness for the universe) and a loose-enough yet edgy vision (your ego can accept and trust to make the jump on the Earthly plane).
Much love <3
RE: Positive Change and the Challenge of Coming to Terms with the New Normal