What makes sense for you makes sense for you. When you get advice, the advice you get makes sense for the person giving it. But everyone has their own experiences. We aren’t cookies made from the same cookie cutter. Follow what you’re meant to do, not what someone else tells you to do, and you’ll find the stability and reliability you’re looking for.
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New Book: The View From The Deck: Thoughts on Values, Vision, and Gratitude
Get your copy of Michael Whitehouse's new book The View From The Deck: Thoughts on Values, Vision, and Gratitude now.
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I have published a new book, it's called "The View from the Deck Thoughts on Values, Vision and Gratitude." If you like morning motivation, you're gonna love this book. You can find it on Kindle and in paperback form on Amazon and the audiobook is coming soon. So check out "The View from the Deck Thoughts on Values, Vision and Gratitude" on Amazon now. I believe it was the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates who said, "There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's." Maybe with someone else. But the point is, what makes sense for you is usually what makes sense. A lot of people will tell you advice based on what makes sense for them, but they are not you. You are not them. You're different people. You probably know this. But people don't realize that their experience not extrapolate to everyone's experience. So someone may say, "Well, you should go to college and get a good job, because that makes you reliable and safe life." Well, if you don't fit in the corporate environment, you have a nasty idea of getting fired because you tell your boss what you think. And that's not a very stable and safe life, is it? For some people, entrepreneurship is more stable and more safe than getting a "stable job" because they can't keep a stable job. They don't fit in that environment. Your most stable, most reliable, happiest, best life is going to be the place you are meant to be. And that place might be working in an office, working for some company for 20 years. Or it might be working for yourself. It might be in your basement office doing what you are meant to do, weaving baskets, or whatever. Stitching together inflatable animals, I don't know. Doing what you are meant to do is the safest, most reliable, best, most joy-making use of your time and vocation. And you will discover if you follow what you're meant to do, not just your passion, not just your joy and your bliss, but where you're really meant to be, that is where stability and safety and reliability will occur. Not where someone else tells you it is, where you are meant to be. I have published a new book called The View from the Deck, Thoughts on Values, Vision and Gratitude. If you like morning motivation, you're going to love this book. A lot of the same concepts. The basic principle of the book is that I was coaching clients and they were telling me about their dream life and I was recognizing elements of their dream life in my everyday life. And it made me realize there's things in my life that people are dreaming of. And there's things in my life that the me of a few years ago would absolutely have given his right arm for and chances are you've got the same. So I took these concepts about values and what makes us do what we do. Vision, where we want to be in gratitude, appreciating the awesome things we have and put them together into one awesome book called The View from the Deck, Values, Vision and Gratitude. You can find it on amazon.com. Just search for Michael Whitehouse, The View from the Deck and get your copy today.
