Let me tell, excuse my French, but I am one lazy motherfucker. Yes, I will admit it loud and proud.
Right before I was fired from a dream opportunity recently, my boss told my coworker something that will probably stick with me for a lifetime: “ If you sleep eight hours a day, you are lazy, you only need six hours at most.”
Let me tell you, that lives in my head RENT FREE! I love love LOVEEEEE to sleep eight hours, better yet, let me sleep twelve to sixteen hours, and we got a deal. OF course, I am not sleeping that consecutively in a day, but I have before; although that is all beside the point. You probably are wondering why I am so proud to sleep that much. Let me tell you exactly why:
I hate to say it, but Americans do not work that hard. Forty hours a week may be our standard, and a plethora of Americans(including myself) will cry about working that much. I recently had to average working sixty-five hours a week, and I am so glad that era of my life is over. Why am I thankful for the experience? I realized I do not need to work that many hours to live my dream life. The less I work, the better.
Call me whatever you want; I am living my dream life. I truly am. Everything in my life is happening for me. If you believe life is happening to you, then this page is not for you. You will always be a victim of circumstance, and that will never be me. I might not know my next move, but I know the universe is conspiring in my favor.
For example, let me be honest for a minute. To make ends meet, I started donating plasma so I can eat something other than ramen and bagels for a change while I job search. I was up early this morning - like 2 am early, trying to apply for jobs. It’s a Monday morning, so my hope is to catch managers viewing my application when going into work. Social media these days(Indeed, specifically) shows when an employer views your application. Nearly every employer viewed my application this morning, but no calls back…so I thought.
A job I did not apply for texted my personal number for a customer service assistant role. I usually do not reply to these, but it seems legit, and I have a Zoom interview for 8:15 am for a company that FOUND ME. Why am I emphasizing this? Sometimes the best things in life find us, and this might just be one of those moments. I shall find out tomorrow.
Always and forever, I am on my Haley Hoffman Smith kick(If you EVER see my writings, Haley, I admire you so so so much and you are such an inspiration to me!) I just saw one of her videos right before writing this, and it said something along the lines, “You might not understand the delay right now, but you will when the time is right.” Her one-liners hit every time I swear. If you know her, her life, at least from my perspective, is a magical manifestation of getting to see how good life can truly get. She got back into music, she just wrote a best-selling book, AND she just got engaged to the love of her life. Let me tell you, I am not more in awe of someone’s life than her’s, just because she is a mirror of everything I want to do in my life that I have not just yet.
Obviously, I am sure if I ever met her in this lifetime, she would tell me her life was not always like this. She had to consciously manifest all of this, and it took copious amounts of intentional actions and alignment to get where she is today. Sounds easy, but I know for sure it was not, and her book “You Have The Magic” gives a little bit of insight into that.
So why am I saying all of this? Personally, I am trying to convince my subconscious that all of this is possible for me. This is where my problem lies, because I know I consciously believe all of this to be true, my subconscious is yelling WHERE IS THE PROOF and wow is that voice is loud. Even over the blasting music through my AirPods, I can hear that voice loud and clear. I ignore it because that is what you have to do. After all, babes, I have NOTHING to prove to you. Yes, I am literally talking to my subconscious, and no, I will not be telling my therapist - better yet, my mental coach - this when I meet her the first time today at 3 pm. I got her to believe that I am slightly sane before I go full crazy.
So am I awake, or am I dreaming of you? I think every day I am dreaming of a future version of myself. However, I know the quickest way to manifest that “future me” is to live as if it is already mine, and for the first time in my life, I am going to try my best to live that way.
So cheers to future me, which is actually the present version of who I am today. I am so grateful for a full-time job where I only have to work four days a week, less than forty hours a week, and I have all the spare time in the world to spend with my two cats, Mr. Peepers and Tigger. May that reality align with me as soon as today, I decree and declare it to be true because it is my highest timeline that I want to pursue in this lifetime as of right now.
And may you all reading this quantum jump to your highest timeline if you are not there yet, you are only one choice away, and yes, it truly can be as simple as that if you allow it to be.
See you next time right here in Bradsroom :)
Well, there is a lot to unpack here. First off: I am more than confident that the boss you spoke of is not a physician, nor a scientist of any kind. The fact that he/she is able to be productive and focused with 6 hours of sleep daily is not irrefutable proof of his/her understanding of human tolerances for a life of perfected velocity.
Ancestry, diet, BMI, whether or not you have a sleeping disorder, or disruption of circadian rhythm, and your body's ability to process light in a positive way to form proper sleeping patterns to create proper, efficient sleeping habits for you, is something He/She is likely to have no knowledge of.
One of the most profound discoveries of my life is that who we are is a collection of values created in moments of perceived failure. In a moment of perceived failure, we believe if we change the way of being, we will reclaim power and victory over that failure. NEVER change who you are based on how you THINK others see you. Being who you are is the most attractive and most fulfilling way you can ever be. Letting that voice in your head (who is NOT your friend, BTW) tell you the way things should be does not bring you happiness. Feeling life in the very moment you're in is the path to true fulfillment.
One Thursday night in Kauai, I talked to your co-worker Brian. He told me about his former life. It was based on his academic success, the beautiful woman he had as a partner, and the prestigious career that made his family proud and his friends jealous. A beautiful life, anyone could or would wish for. A life seemingly perfect fell apart with the loss of the lynch pin of a fulfilling partner. One day, she just chose to live life on her terms without him. The house of card fell, and he learned his life wasn't lived on his terms, and that success wasn't based on other people's admiration of him but how he felt about who he is, was, or could be. So stepping away from a job with a prestigious title and becoming a table busser on a cruise ship filled with self-important people who dont really know how lucky they are gave him the breathing room to find himself and the values he wanted to find to have a life worth living and that could never be taken away from him by anyone. That is the kind of success he was looking for!!! That conversation with him was one of the best 15 minutes of that cruise, that and snorkeling in Maui.
I did a little Googling on the woman you wrote of, Haley Hoffman Smith. She may be a strong source of inspiration, but remember, people with more that 10,00 followers are in fact a marketing company, that is not an indictment of her character, she may be someone truly committed and fulfilled by inspiring and helping others. I have been so lucky to not only meet my heroes but have the honor of working for them. It is an opportunity to have a truly authentic interaction with that person and see not the person you think/wish they were, but see who they are when only the hired help are watching. Sometimes it really sucks to see who they are, and other times it far exceeds expectations of the generous, kind, talented people they are. I share that because I want you to know that their strength comes from how you listen to them, not based on who they actually are. And who you are is based on how you listen to yourself and how you value the things that actually bring you happiness, and not outside accolades.
Cheers to the future you !!! Find the goal, and strip away the things that don't bring you closer to it.
To borrow from the wisdom of the Indego Girls:
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
Closer I am to fine.
You are a beautiful person. Stop trying to find a way to prove it, and just have fun getting use to it!