Why do I believe I will have a fork in the road in my career?
So I’ve gained so much more clarity what this fork in the road may be since the time I originally wrote this belief. But I believe it 3-5x stronger than I did before. In my mind, it’s just a matter of time and when that happens and not if. I have more confidence in what I’m creating, which gives more confidence as to when those things may potentially happen. I must financially forecast for where I want to be when so I can make that a reality.
Building and integrating systems is what I do best. And I think I can do that as a large source of my income in my life. It’s not a competition but I think I have potential to be on of the premiere systems creators and integrators in the world. When someone thinks of systems, they think of me. Just like someone thinks of non-violence and they think of Gandhi or MLK or Mandela or athletes and think Ali or Jordan or Gretzky. I want that to be my legacy, among other things.
I’ve built and am building more expertise on Personal Life OS. Next is a Functional OS like with Marketing. Marketing just happens to be what my profession is in but it could have been anything. Then it’s an organizational setting. Which is a combination of Life and Functional. Then it’s as a small business helping other small businesses and solopreneurs. That combines Life OS and organizational OS.
So then what’s next after that, thinking years into the future? My trajectory has followed me doing a system on the side of my main thing. So I imagine while I’m doing TLDR of Life coaching / consulting, I’ll have my eye on the next thing while making what I do irrelevant because I will have built such an optimized, integrated system that prints money. Which is what I’m on the way to doing with Marketing right now (at least the first part of that).
The thing is I’ll get better and quicker at building systems in whatever contexts I’m interested in. Sports. Government. Design. Spirituality. Business. Anything. All to make people think about less and less in the day to day that expends unnecessary energy and to instead allocate that towards achieving and realizing their highest potential.
Like I think we’re operating at 30-40% of our peak performance at work. As a society, we’re somewhere between a 20-30% probably, if that high even. When you raise that to 50-60% even, then self-actualization becomes much more attainable and sustainable.
(Side note - entertain, contain, attain, sustain; for skill acquisition??)
Because it’s not that humans are incapable of achieving self-realization, it’s just systems have made that harder and harder to do. I want to make that as easy as possible. Raising the floor while keeping the ‘ceiling’ as is.
I think I also believe that because Idk how long I can actually stay in one place / do 1 thing. Like a few years might be the limit. That can be viewed as a disadvantage but the way I use it to my benefit is I build systems in one place, then move on to the next thing. I keep learning and gaining experience through those new systems I’m building and use that in the subsequent context.
The underlying reason behind the fork in the road is financial. I think I’ll be in a place to shift over as seamlessly as possible from having a side hustle to it being my main thing. I can grow exponentially financially building systems compared to just being in Marketing for a few more years. I have more potential than limiting myself to just that.
I’ll keep learning about all these seemingly disparate topics but as I’m building and integrating systems, it’ll all make sense.
My beliefs of achieving ‘great’ things, and 2U is just a step along the way, not a train I need to stay on until its final destination.
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