13 Ways I Completely Changed My Life in a Year and So Can You
#2 — Take a shit job.
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My life fell into a million tiny pieces. There were cries for help that nobody answered. It was a dark time.
I had left a business behind that I loved like a child. My family relationships were a mess. My financial situation was a disaster. I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror I was so ashamed.
Anybody who was good in my life had departed. The loneliness was crippling. Worst of all, I had found out earlier that there was a mental illness invading my brain; it was warping my thoughts and making the world look like a horror movie with real-life zombies in the streets.
Then everything changed. What caused it? I finally had enough. “No more. That’s it. I’m done.”
The pain was simply too great. Ignoring the problems and living in ignorant bliss was something I wasn’t prepared to do anymore. I began searching for answers that led me down a strange path to something far more beautiful than I could imagine.
Below are the thirteen ways you can turn your life around.
Let it all fall apart.
Denial is the enemy of reinvention.
My whole life was a lie. The solution was to stop pretending and start admitting. And then to ask myself one question: “What are you going to do about it?”
Playing spot the negative is easy. Critics do that all day for free.
So I admitted to myself what was going on and how I felt. It wasn’t in one triumphant moment like a Disney movie would portray. It happened over several months.
When the truth was obvious, I let everything fall apart. My romantic relationships, business ventures, lifelong friends, hobbies — all fell apart over a short period of time.
When things fell apart, only then did it become possible to rebuild my life from scratch again using a blank canvas.
Take a shit job.
I took a shit job in a call center. It was the worst job you could find.
But it got me out of the house. I stopped looking at my dwindling bank balance and all the stuff I had to…
