Dare to be different today allow you to become extraordinary tomorrow!

You ever wake up in the morning, have a shower, do your hair and makeup, have breakfast get in your car drive to your 9-5 job, finish your 8-hour shift get home cook tea watch some lame ass show that’s on TV then go to bed. Only to wake up and repeat for another 4 days until its Friday and you’re sitting at your desk saying TGIF looking forward to not working on the weekend? Yeah me too! But why? Are you truly happy living such a routinely scheduled life? Don’t you get bored? Because I sure do. I work at an insurance company, and as much as it pays rent, bills and children supplies I can’t say I am waking up every morning bouncing for joy to make people spend a lot of money insuring their goods. I don’t hate my job but I sure as hell don’t love it. I am not passionate about it, I’m not unhappy working here but it is not truly what I wish I was doing. So why do we do it? Why do we work for places that we don’t really give a fuck about? Because it is comfortable! So many of us are living our lives comfortably and that’s okay if it makes you happy. But aren’t you dying to be working in a field that you are absolutely 100% passionate about! That you wake up in the morning and you cannot wait to get involved in work. You go to bed thinking about what you are going to achieve tomorrow, making more plans for your future career. Enjoying every single day of your life instead of just two days a week Saturday’s and Sunday’s when you don’t have to work! Instead we are wasting precious moments of our life, our time, to only wake up in the mornings pressing snooze on the alarm 5 times and trying to think of any excuse possible to get out of going to work that day.

This one time I was working at a café in my home town that I hated I wasn’t there very long. It wasn’t the job I disliked it was my boss she wasn’t a very nice person. Anyways I rang her up one day when I was supposed to work and said I am sick I can’t come in, which I wasn’t really I just did not want to go to work that day. I had some personal issues going on I was not at all feeling up to dealing with people serving on their hands and feet. She replied that’s not acceptable there is no one to cover your shift you have to come in or you will lose your job. So I started driving to work I was about 200 metres from my work and had the mentality of FUCK THIS as I swerved my car straight into a light pole. I literally slowed right down to about 10km per hour and hit a light pole in hope that I wouldn’t do much damage to myself, my car or the pole, just hoping to get myself out of work that day. This is by far the dumbest, stupidest idea I have ever had/done in my entire life. I don’t have many regrets; I believe everything happens for a reason but safe to say I fucking regretted doing this. A guy came running over from a bar across the road to see if I was okay and asked what happened. I literally didn’t even know how to explain myself, do I straight out tell everyone I crashed my car to get out of going to work or would they think I was a lunatic. So I said I just blacked out and don’t remember anything. I then had to repeat my made up story to the police, my friends and family my insurance company and so on. But hey I got out of going to work that day and quit my dumb ass job a week later and never returned. That stupid pole cost me $2000 to replace plus the damages to my car and increase in insurance premium plus the all-round title of being a fucking dick head.

So moral of my story is if you hate your job that much just quit! if it is making you unhappy, QUIT! Don’t make the stupid ass mistake that I did, it was not a smart move and you will regret it! If you can’t be in your dream job right now then set yourself goals. Give yourself something to look forward to, something to work towards a reason to stay in the job you don’t care about. Otherwise you are just working day by day, week by week for no purpose other than to pay bills. You may not know exactly what you want to do with your life right now, what career path you wish to follow, if that is the case then search for what ever it is that makes you happy! Don’t ever give up! Your dream job is out there waiting for you to attend to it. You may never work out exactly what you want to be but don’t get yourself stuck in such a routined life. If you enjoy reading books, make it interesting see how many books you can read in a month, start a book club. If you enjoy working out at the gym, challenge yourself see how quickly you can run 1km and try to beat that each week. If you enjoy cooking, be adventurous and create your own meals out of random ingredients. Just do something out of the ordinary! You don’t want to get to 80 years old look back at your ordinary life and be disappointed you didn’t achieve everything you dreamed about. You want to be able to look back and tell yourself and the world that you have lived an extraordinary life! Don’t let constant failures set you back, pick yourself up and try again. Don’t let other people influence your choices, this is your life, you can live it how ever and which ever way you choose. Stand out in a crowd of people in all black, be YELLOW. Don’t ever give up on your dreams because that is why we have them!

I have a vision, I have a goal that I am working towards I know exactly where I want to be and the steps that it’s going to take to get me there! But for now I will continue to stay in a job that I am not 100% happy with, but I will never ever give up! I will get there eventually no matter how long it may take me or how many times I fail. I want to live an extraordinary life! My gravestone is going to read Erin Maxwell died one happy mother fucker! She achieved GREATNESS!

“Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be EXTRAORDINARY!”