Life is a funny old thing. One one had, we can stroll through life, accepting our lot and being one of the masses. On the other, we have an option to chose to do something completely different and alter the course of destiny. Despite what you may think, there is only one person that has anything to do with it and only one person can change this. And that is, once again, the person looking back at us when we look in the bathroom mirror. Life is one big challenge.

I once heard a story about a bucket of crabs, and how if you have a bucket of crabs, you never need a lid as if one of the crabs tries to get out, the others will reach up and drag them back down into the bucket. People are a bit like that. They get uncomfortable with another persons aspirations of success (climbing out of the bucket) that they somehow manage to talk them out of it. Saying trivial things like ‘that kind of life isn’t for folks like us, mate’.

So what do we do about it? If you’re anything like me, not much. And sometimes, I have no idea why. There are a lot of things that I want to achieve in my life, and Mel and I have the vehicle to achieve this. Some days (who am I kidding, it’s most days) I come home from work, get changed, cook and eat dinner, then YouTube or Netflix happens. The arse gets parked and that’s me done for the night. Hardly moving a muscle until it’s bed time. Living a life of SSDD (same shit, different day). I make myself feel better by watching motivational videos on YouTube (Gary V, anyone?), reading, or listening to motivational audio tracks, but nothing compares to actual proper old fashioned work. And I don’t mean employment or self employment either

As I sit here, Netflix playing in the background, I feel as though I am at a crossroads. And it’s a fairly significant one too. A great deal of my reluctance has a whole lot to do with fear. And as strange as it sounds, it’s the fear of success that is rearing its ugly head and knotting up my stomach. Odd, I know, but it’s quite common. My own thougths of ‘who am I to think I deserve a life like that?” I can quit my whinging, suck up life and accept the status quo, OR, I can knuckle down, get my hind quarters out there and build a brighter tomorrow for our kids. Present and future.

So I challenge myself. And the challenge is to meet 100 new people before the end of the month. That’s 4.6 people per day, and I have no idea how I’m going to achieve it. That’s what being an entrepreneur is all about though. Identifying a problem and coming up with a solution to said problem. Perhaps I’m not a fully fledged entrepreneur yet, but I’m closer than what I was yesterday.

I challenge you, if you feel like your living a life of re-runs, SSDD is getting you down, or you are just absolutely, mind bendingly fed up with your lot in life. Get up, make a commitment to do something different. Step outside of your comfort zone and make a bigger, better life, you deserve it!

If you do decide to do something different, let someone know. Make a commitment and write it down. You never understand the power of a statement until you see it written down in your own hand. Let me know about it too, I’d love to hear from you and what you want to achieve.

Stay tuned as well, as my story is set for big changes. And it begins and ends with me.