What if I told you that the overwhelming majority of people never rested a second of their whole life? For some reason, they are afraid of absolute rest that should take place outside of sleep because they think they won’t be able to come back or something. Even meditation is a focusing exercise, and thus cannot be considered a form of absolute rest. You are performing a complex and kind of annoying task when you’re brushing your teeth. Some people consider reading books to be a form of rest. Most people consider anything that has nothing to do with their work to be rest, when simply that couldn’t be further from the truth! As long as you are supposed to get a certain outcome from anything, even if it’s easy, it doesn’t qualify as rest. Absence of goal oriented behavior or pursuing any kind of outcome is key when it comes to absolute rest. Sleep has a lot of purposes. Repairing your body and setting it up for a whole new day is not an easy endeavor. Reducing the activity of and effort exerted by your brain and body is essential. Without this, absolute rest will be impossible, even if you are definitely not working. Since most people are unaware of these facts, they attempt to bypass the entirety of the process by making their whole life easier, through for example something like getting an easy job that never disrupts their perpetual state of lack of having to do anything in their life that has the potential of getting them a little bit tired.
If you find yourself fantasizing about quitting working for yourself and getting a regular good old average regular job, ask yourself why you have that thought pattern in particular. Why not become a professional athlete instead for example? Why do you have a regular 9 – 5 associated with being an easy escape or an easier, and thus better life for you. You can have self-sabotaging fantasies about quitting something that is perfectly designed for you, despite not wanting to, but why do these fantasies always wind up being a 9 – 5? Think about that. Perhaps you need to start associating comfort with just chilling on the couch doing nothing, instead of getting a job to get to finally having an easy life with no daily struggles whatsoever.
Perhaps you just want to look like or appease the majority of people.
There’s no comfort in something outside of your nature. You’re smarter than that. Don’t betray your most authentic self. Be what you’re truly meant to be, even if it’s going wrong.
If being an entrepreneur is wrong, I don’t want to be right.