In this episode, I talk about the process of arriving at the Jump – coming to that moment when you change and know that you have to leave. I make the analogy to being a refugee. There is a point, when many have to say “Enough” and make the decision that they have to leave the life that they have known.
But knowing you have to leave Aleppo is just the beginning. What you then need is a plan for how to leave and how to get to a better place.
Jump 3
I end this episode with a look at the two keys to finding a successful new life: learning how to create value and learning how to control your expenses. I go into detail in the next episode.
In this second episode, I will talk about what is the nature of the world that we live in.
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they
Jean Jacques Rousseau
I will explain that, while you may think that you are free, most of your life is controlled by people and by forces over which you have no control. I make the comparison to your childhood at school where the school and the teacher sets all the rules and the rewards.
Jump Episode 2
I show how your life as a child at school is actually almost identical to your life in the modern workplace where where you work, when you work, what you do and how you are rewarded are all controlled by others. Where everything you value might be taken away arbitrarily.Where what you thought was security is not. Where what you thought was freedom was a form of slavery.
This is where the pain comes as you make the Jump. For you wake up to know this to be the real world.
This realization demands that you find another way of living where you have control. Where you are truly free.
At the end of this episode, I will expand on the key elements of your new free life. These are to do or offer things that are of true value to others in a direct way. This is the new contract. Where also the goal is not to maximize your earnings but to minimize your expenses.
Here is the introduction to the Jump that is also found on the main page.
Here I talk about that moment in a life when our perspectives changes from being driven by “Them” and “The Shoulds” to an inner-directed POV where who we are drives our lives.
I describe this moment as being like both a death and a birth. We have no control over the timing. The process is painful and messy. We can never go back. We arrive in the new world full of loss, for all that we knew was in the old life. We arrive helpless also as a baby enters the physical world.
The good news is that when we arrive, helpless and confused, we find that we are not alone. We find that unknown to us before are people who have made the Jump before who reach out to us with help and love.
I remind you that the Jump itself is merely a change of inner state. Ahead is the hard work of constructing a new life in this new context. Here the economics are key and a new way of living has to be found. In the way are our old relationships. They may be our friends. They may be our family. All of whom may not want you to change.
I look ahead at the end of this episode to how you may find w way though these challenges.
The Jump 