The Problem : Your Life Feels Like a Hamster Wheel
Hustle culture sells burnout as a sign of success. Working for the escape of the weekend every week, and for what? To play it on repeat for half a century?
You don’t need an escape – You need a life you don’t want to escape from!
What if you could live a life that felt good today — not decades from now?
Redefine What Success Actually Means To You
Success is a life that feels like freedom. Granted, we all have to pay the bills and consider future savings (hot tip: some online high-interest savings accounts still pay 4% APY or higher!), but is that what success looks like? Hell no.
Pillars of a meaningful life :
- Job : a bread and butter bill payer that doesn’t suck the life out of you
- Passion : Ikigai, what fuels you (Ikigai is a Japanese concept that combines what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can get paid for. What fires you up? What could you chase even without a paycheck?)
- Adventure : experiences that keep life interesting
The way to feel more successful? Infuse more life into your life. You’re gonna regret wasting away on the couch every weekend when life’s clock starts ticking louder.
Design a Life You Love, On Purpose
- What would your days look like if you didn’t have to work? (Make that your baseline.)
- Borrow from Olly Staniland’s “Dopamine Journal” :
- Plan and schedule adventures, big or small
- Reflect on what truly brings you joy, and adjust accordingly
- “Fit more lives into the time you have” (Darius Foroux)
- Don’t just exist – Live a handful of lives before you’re done
The zenBLITZ Formula (Because Balance Matters)
- Rejuvenating leisure (zen) : Rest, mindfulness, journaling, deep conversations, long walks
- Exciting action (BLITZ) : Adventures, spontaneous plans, learning cool shit
- Plan, experiment, reflect, and adjust – And keep fucking going.
The Punk Rock Life Design Manifesto
Don’t grind your life into something you want to escape from, and stop waiting for vacation time to feel alive.
Create a life where the everyday is enough — and the future is even better.
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