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Your Time Is Limited: Don’t Waste It Living by Other's Rules

Break free from the norm...

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Jo Barnes
Dec 02, 2024
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Show me someone who believes they’re living life to the fullest but hasn’t questioned the rules they live by, and I’ll show you someone who’s only scratched the surface of their potential.

I know this because I was one of them.

For years, I thought I was doing all the “right” things; working hard, following the expected path, staying in my lane.

  • I celebrated hitting a £30k a year salary by the time I was 30.

  • I thought I'd won the lottery when I got the job of my dreams working 80 hours a week lining someone else's pockets.

But that was because that was all I knew.

I didn’t realise at the time, that I was trapped inside invisible boundaries created by schools, society, and culture that defined what success should look like.

It wasn’t until I stepped outside of the framework, that I truly began to live.

It was uncomfortable, scary even, but once I saw how much of my life was shaped by invisible forces, I couldn’t unsee it.

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