Breaking the rule of being just an average is something that is risky, hard, and sometimes unimaginable. Breaking the rule of setting limits to your capacity for some may be out of the ordinary. Having a rough past, a destroyed childhood, a broken marriage can make people make up their own rules as they go on in life that can lead them to distress.
The rule of becoming employee, the rule of working for 30 years straight to finally retiring, the rule of having taking life in as it comes our way, are some of the grueling rules we take on.
Breaking the rules may cause some extra time working on your entrepreneurial venture, it may cause some excitement when you go against the crowd at work and instead of chatting it up at coffee breaks you’re zoned in, fully exposed into hard work. Breaking the rules may take you to unlimited sources of content that you can produce for your podcast/blog/vlog, or it may expose you to transforming the lives of others.
Steve Jobs quit his studies at Harvard and broke the ultimate rule of life: go to college and get an education to work for a man that will design your future for the next 30 years. Innovation, creativity and success only came to him when he stepped into the dark side of unimaginable.
But we master following the rules that were made by others because we’ve never done it before. We’ve never stepped outside the comfort zone to allow our creativity to be created.
There are too many rules in life that lead you to the road of some else’s success. Break them all (to an extent of still following the law) and design your future the way you’ve always imagined it to be.
It’s okay not to take your next vacation to sit home and work on your projects. It’s okay to turn off that TV and start picking up books that will allow you to get that amazing job you’ve always wanted. It’s okay to wake up early and get moving, to stay late because you’re too excited about what your future holds. It’s okay to skip out on those happy hours to invest in your future.
