Common Sense…means work hard, sacrifice everything for that day when it’ll all come together. You’ll sell your company for $17.5m, pay your dues and sail off into the sunset. Arrival.
Or is it?
It took 40 degree sweltering heat, 95% humidity and an estanged phone call to my wife on my 35th birthday from Columbo airport to make me realize that it was absurd. Here I was on my birthday stuck waiting for a connection in Sri Lanka back from setting up our office in South India rammed cheek-by-jowl with sweaty Tamil businessmen and irate tourists when all I wanted to do was play with my son.
How absurd.
We spend our lives living out other people’s agendas, driving the car with our attention set on the rear view mirror. All in the name of that intangible yardstick “success”. We feel not “enough” so do the Tony Robbins firewalk, make our “moves”, say “yes!” to life and relate our maxims of positivity to all our peers until we wear them down into submission or bore them to tears.
“I’m going to be a millionaire” because the world will listen to me then… and then we make it and we’re still driving looking in the rear view mirror.
