Consider each day, each hour, and each minute of your life and ask yourself these questions;

1.) Is it productive?

2.) Is it fun?

3.) Is it rewarding?

4.) Is it taking me where I want to go?

5.) Is it congruent with my passion?

I have done this and for me the answers all pointed me “away” from how I was spending a significant amount of my day-time waking hours which was working for a corporation. Because working for wages and trading my time and talents for someone else to get the profits did not make sense to me any longer. I read Rich Dad/Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and Why We Want You to Be Rich and I could no longer remain compliant to the rules and regulations of corporations. I began to realize that I was enslaved to the wage and to the rules. Of course becoming aware of what was not working gave me the first step to becoming aware of what I did want.

I asked myself. What did I truly want to achieve with my life? I went back to a time when I was at the beginning my adult journey. I recalled what I dream of. Then I applied the wisdom and lessons that life has delivered.

I know this to be true. Life happens – giving each of us experiences then we do choose the attitude that creates the next experience. We set our direction and then something else happens to draw our attention, sometimes it is good and fun and sometimes it is hard and difficult. I have found that the hardest experiences are where the greatest lessons have been learned.

I began to be aware that I have been distracted by the media and its stories which are often only about the negatives that happen in society. I call these distractions because they have caused me to feel numb and accepting that me as an individual has no control. Sometimes they created very strong emotions such as FEAR and at times all consuming. I started to see the pattern and made a choice and took action. I believe that each experience is there to teach us something and to learn the lesson. Let the emotions be the “button” to wake up the numbing. Use the emotions button to get the movement going. However, I also know that hanging onto negative emotions is hard on the health and decided to preserve the learning, and drop the negative emotion.

I made a decision a few months ago. I turned off the TV, cancelled the newspaper subscription, stopped listening to the radio and started reading books, going for walks, riding my bike, skiing, hiking, contacting friends, studying to gain new skills and reconnecting to the dream I had almost forgotten. Because the lesson I had to learn was that the TV/Media/Radio is there to distract me, to keep me numb and often to brain wash me to believing the stories they are telling me and to create fear. Now some of you will point out that TV/Media/Radio each provide good honest stories and that being unplugged from the world is not wise. Well I have found that my friends, family and the odd time I will see the newspaper headlines, and listen to the radio keeps me informed just enough to assure me that the decision made a few months ago has been one of the best decisions I have made thus far in my life. Because I am no longer numb and being entertained or brain washed by the media and I am now healthier, wiser and taking actions that I am choosing. These actions are not through Fear, but through informed and educated knowledge.

It is a path that many would not have the courage to choose, because it goes against the masses, the status quo and what I was brought up to believe was the way it is to be done.

I have chosen to no longer be controlled, enslaved to wages and be numbed by TV/Radio/Media fear. I have chosen to be awake, aware, and creative and to be resilient. I know that I am walking a road that is less traveled, one that does not have a lot of people on it (yet) and one that will give me choices of freedom because taking brave action based on knowledge and the honest desire to learn and teach others is where my dream began.