modern laziness

Risk is a four letter word. Risky driving is quite popular. People are yakking away at their cell phones without paying attention to anybody else's interest of simply staying alive. Today, a cop almost rammed me because he was so busy doing important work on his computer while swerving into my lane. Had he killed me, I'm sure it would have been my fault. Any idiot takes risks daily, powerful enough to cause the death of half a dozen people, but the majority of us is afraid, very afraid, to live as we please.

We risk our lives every day in traffic. We shun the risk to live a life that's worth living. No way we would risk to be happy. Benefits have corrupted our senses. We have settled for 40 years of time released suicide. As long as we can make ourselves believe that our jobs are safe, there's no problem murdering our potential for a life in mediocrity and misery. Now, that is true laziness.

Modern laziness doesn't equal couch potato. Modern laziness is an active lifestyle sheltered by an employer who does the dirty work for us. Dirty, as in being responsible for soliciting new business, negotiating prices, and making money. Employees, kept safe and innocent with wage or salary, mistake receiving a paycheck for making money. A job is the lazy person's way of “making” money. Somebody else is really making it and passing a small portion on to you. Of course, it'll never be as much as you'd like to see. Having a job is like wearing a rubber to protect ourselves from contact with real money: risk appears to be contained and naturally, your fun is limited also.

Change it! Make money yourself, for the time being PARALLEL to your current job. Take initiative and offer your service or product to other people. If you don't quit your job, it's not even such a risk—just an increase of fun and profit. Too much effort? Right. As I said: laziness.

The hardest working employee is too damn lazy to do something for herself. No wonder, employees are unhappy. Our priorities are messed up. Health and fitness? Oh my God, that comes first. Education is crucial. Good and warped parents we are, we teach our children how to hate life also, and then we pretend to be bewildered when we discover their developing drug habit. We save up money, so that our brats may go to better colleges, ending up on better jobs, hating them better than we ever did. We desire for our children to screw up their lives more comfortably, with a fatter nest egg. We want them to be neat and healthy idiots with nice husbands and good jobs. Insane.

Granted, it can be a difficult task to discover and establish a business, sufficient and stable enough to replace your job with all its benefits. I understand. Hence, my suggestion: take it easy. You don't have the perfect job. So, why trying to find the perfect business? Since you don't give up your job safety, you can enjoy the luxury of abandoning perfectionism. PLAYFULLY, try out something that catches your interest and has the potential to make an additional buck this week or next month.

If you must, sell something on eBay you want to get rid of. It's alright to supplement your income that way for awhile and it's a start, but NO, No, no: I do not want you to become a professional eBay seller, another network marketing clone, or franchisee. That would leave you as empty and drained as the regular job does.

Strengthening and expressing your individual freedom while making money is our objective here. This is not about other people's shady money making opportunities. It's about you and you alone. Your interests and your ability are key. What is your passion? What is so special about you that you can use to SHOCK the world into business with you? How much longer can you hold yourself back?

Explode onto the market. It's easier than you think.

Egbert