Rebellious Thoughts #68 - 🤘 Shake Up Your Life

Hey Rebels!

As always, I promise to provoke you in less than 5 min once a week so that you can stay adaptable and on top of your game.

For those who are new—and there are about 700 of you in the last few weeks alone—here’s a link to some of my previous newsletters. See if any grab your attention, or just lucky dip in randomly for 10 minutes and gift your brain with some stimulus.

YEW!

Let’s get into today’s:

I don’t know about you but these are recurring questions in my mind…

Am I doing what I really love doing?
Could I be doing more or less or other stuff?
Am I being adventurous enough?
What should I do next?
Should I be more conservative?
Should I be investing more on x or y or z?
Do I prioritise my time correctly?
Did someone steal my curiosity and I didn’t even notice?
Do I spend enough time with my family?
Am I free? How free?
Can I make completely independent and autonomous decisions?
Am I at risk? Financial risk? Too exposed?

If I try to find the perfect answer for them, or one I am completely satisfied with, all it does is fill me with self-doubt.

Instead, I focus on the process that makes me feel confident the answers will emerge and evolve as needed.

Last year I put together a Career Shake Up! program, I packaged up what I’ve been doing for years to help people with their careers into a self-paced program…
And although the experiment was fun and yielded some great results for people, it didn’t reach the scale I was hoping for…
I think maybe the error was calling it Career Shake Up and not simply LIFE Shake Up! - life and work are one and the same.

It’s a self-guided masterclass to share with you how I answer all the questions above on a regular basis, and how I ensure that despite my imperfections and biases, I have the best chance of happening to life rather than life happening to me.

I am here to remind you of the importance of curiosity and kick your butt into gear to do more than what you are supposed to!

So, I decided to make the program cheaper, not free. I think free is rubbish because if I make it free, you won’t take it seriously nor will you value my effort.

I also made it tighter… in fact - short and punchy enough that you should be able to do it in a day - I recommend taking 1 day off… ONE DAY THATS ALL!…and focus on yourself, maybe go buy yourself a bunch of flowers, set them up next to you, put your fave music on or maybe theta waves…and push through the material, listen, explore, search, write, regain the thirst to push yourself into the uncomfortable so you can learn new things.

I’m also going to try to connect you. There’s 6,000 of you now… just over 12 months ago it was maybe around 1,500ish….crazy!!
Right now you are all connected to me but not with each other. You all write messages to me with similar sentiments… “I want to be pushed out of my comfort zone”, “I want to explore what else is out there”, “I don’t want to feel like I should have tried and I didn’t

What if I start connecting you with each other, so we can all find our matches and supporters and can keep each other honest?
Once a week, the Shake Up! gets together, open mic conversation with me and each other. Like a live LinkedIn hahaha!

Anyway, worth a try, let’s see what happens.

➔ Go here.
Sign up.
Take a day off (or not but I reckon you should!)
Do the push ups.
Join the hive so we can chat once a week (starting in March).
Start shaking things up!

If you don’t have the $ and you need help just email me and I’ll make the program available to you - don’t stress!

ALSO, those of you that bought the program last year, OBVIOUSLY already have access to it (and in fact, you will have lifetime access to all my programs for being early birds and kind of guinea pigs 🙏🙌)

Yew!

Love,

Gus

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