GET OUT OF THAT COMFORT ZONE!

How can you kindle your hunger for more if you're sitting on your couch with your hand inside a bag of potato chips watching "King of Queens"?

For a long time now I have been yearning to do something meaningful amd challenging with my life. Well, I guess "yearning" is a bit strong. It is more like complaining. Whyning. Moping around. Something to that extend. So for a long time I have been moping around that I need a new challenge in life. A new focus in life that lifts me off that couch and catapults me into action.

Challenges are abundant, but I am just too lazy too act upon them. I keep on dreaming up these grand schemes of how to change the world and make my life more intriguing (e.g. sell rubber bondage gear as toys to school children, sell hard drugs in retirement homes). Then I get all excited about these ideas and I run to my best friend Fabian to tell all about it. I do one of my wild presentations "wouldn't it be cool if we <PLACE BRILLIANT IDEA HERE>". He gets all excited as well, and all excited as we are we sit on his terrace, sip on some coffee, put our feet up and act as if we were going to do something about this brilliant idea. Tomorrow.


Well, there have been many tomorrows but precious few realizations of brilliant ideas so far (with the exception of founding the society for enjoyment of pornography, but that was short-lived excitement). The problem is that I am just too cozy in the place I am in now. Work is good, money is good, everything is pretty much smooth waters (except maybe the gurrl-thing). Coffee is good, terrace is good, puttin up your feet is good. You get the point. But good doesn't cut it. I am terrified of being old and not having any cool stories to tell my grandchildren, except maybe that at one point I must have had sex when my son was conceived.
"And I used to have this blog, which was kinda funny."
"Sure Grandpa. Whatever ..."
I don't want this to happen to me. So my new focus is to rekindle the hunger to do something in my life. I want to be hungry again! Hey, that hunger thing is a great analogy. If you think about it it holds the solution to my problem: If you're full you're not hungry. Get it? I should just quit my great contract at the EPO, because it just makes me full and complacent. Then, when I don't have money I am sure the hunger will set in real quick and I'll be racing to take on one of my great challenges. The one that makes the most bucks of course. Hmm, bondage toys or crack for the elderly?

Yours truly
Doug Heffernan