What do I want?
Posted on May 19, 2005 - Filed Under Philosophy |
I had an interesting conversation with my mentor.
We were discussing various topics (like women, wine, traveling) when he posed me a very interesting question. He asked me what I wanted in life. Knowing my mentor, he wasn’t looking for a simple answer. No, he’s looking for some deep rooted meaningful answer.
To be honest, I didn’t have a response. I can’t tell him that though because he’s not going to let me off that easy.
Mentor: "So tell me, what do you want?"
Clifford: "Well, I don’t know what I don’t want."
Mentor: "That’s interesting. What is that?"
Clifford: "I don’t want to be stuck in a cubicle for the rest of my life."
Mentor: "Really?"
Clifford: "Oh yeah, that’s my biggest fear. Where I work, I see these people who are 10 years older than I and they are terrified about losing their jobs. I’m scared to death that something like that is going to happen to me."
Mentor: "You need to stop thinking like that."
Clifford: "Thinking like what?"
Mentor: "You need to stop thinking about what you don’t want. You know why?"
Clifford: "Because I’ll end up in a cubicle for the rest of my life."
Mentor: "You got it."
I never thought about it in terms of that. I had spent nearly every day, thinking about what a terrifying aspect it would be if I spent the rest of my life in a cubicle. And while I spent my time obsessing about that, I wasn’t focusing on what I really wanted to do.
But there is a certain twisted logic to that. You’ll wind up where you spend the most time thinking about. If you’re constantly worried about being a failure then you’ll wind up failing.
In any event, I promised my mentor that I would definitely put some thought into that. But I’m unsure if I’ll ever have an answer. Right now, I want to focus on creating assets which produce passive income. Let’s scratch that. I am creating assets which product passive income.
Maybe as I go along, I’ll get better at defining goals. For the moment it’s about getting one piece of investment property.
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I am in the middle of your blog. I very much like it so far. I am a surgeon and real estate investor in Florida. You sound like an interesting guy.
This post reminds me of things i read in Attraction Factor…a great book by joe vitale.
I will post again when i have read more.
gbr