There’s a certain order
that you’re told that things are meant to go in life.
You go to school, get an education, get a career, work hard, grow a family, pay off your mortgage and then, finally, you retire and get to do what you want with your time if your health remains robust. But what happens when you’ve done all of this with all its wonderful highs and its inevitable lows yet you find that you’re still not quite where you had wanted to be?
That’s where I found myself at least. Out of purpose and passion, yet too far from a desirable style of retirement.
Hi, I’m King,
For years I worked for a fantastic travel company in Sydney. I absolutely loved the travel industry, to be honest, I probably should never have left. But at school, I had always thought that I was going to go into the law. Until I was 16 I’d had the grades but then, well, having a life got in the way and my grades suffered when it counted.
So, no law, option 2 instead - business studies for the travel industry plus working in that great industry. Later, I moved to London for a few years to work for the parent company of my Sydney travel firm. When I returned to Australia, I got chatting with an old friend who’d got into the law late and loved it. He was so passionate, he had such purpose, and I thought it’s not too late, I should give it a shot too. So I did it. I dropped the great job in the industry I enjoyed and I got studying.
Now, this friend of mine could not stop talking about the law. At every party we were at it was all he could talk about, then in my first semester, I realised I wasn’t talking like that, that if I didn’t have the passion that he did then I’d made a mistake (spoiler alert: I’d probably made a mistake). But I was stubborn. I persisted. I finished my studies and I worked as a lawyer for years for private and government clients in insurance litigation, private clients in family law matters and large corporate clients in commercial litigation matters. I've worked for a mid-size firm in Sydney, a small firm in Far North Coast NSW and a large top-tier global firm at their Melbourne office. And finally, my own small private practice.
It wasn’t my passion though. When something is just okay at the start, the longer you do it, the more years you plug away at it you just get to a point of wanting to scream “Get me out of here!” But you get used to a certain way of living, a certain income and commitments so you just shove that thought to the back of your head and don’t think about it until one day you realise that if you’d ever had a sense of purpose, you certainly don’t have it anymore. You need to stop. You need to change course.
But how?
But how? As things stand, you're not ready to retire yet, you don't have the funds to go travel, explore, adventure, and play, and with what you're doing right now it feels like you'll never reach those goals. Totally depressing really.
This might not exactly be where you are but it’s where I was. I had to make sure that I had what I needed for my retirement (not that I'm ever going to retire per se, I’ll be very happily busy in ‘retirement’) but I didn’t know what new trajectory might be open to me that could free me from the gravitational pull of my status quo and get me where I wanted to go and to have what I needed. That’s when I stumbled upon how to use the internet to harness the global online economy for my benefit using an easy video workshop.
If only I knew before what I know now! But better late than never - I'm so glad and grateful that I came across the video training series and decided to check it out because it's mind-, skill- and life-expanding! In a very big way! I get what I need from this in terms of time freedom, geographical freedom and income, I’m applying it in a number of enterprises and with purpose, as I’m now also working to help people who find themselves stuck in an unfulfilling career, or some other difficult life circumstance, to break free by using the same skills and tools to create an enterprise they personally love that both provides and gives purpose. Happy days!
I hope to meet you and guide you on this journey.
All the best!
King Cornell. Cabarita Beach, NSW, Australia.
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