What if...you had a second chance to live your life - on your terms?
What if...you had a second chance to live your life - on your terms?
What would you do differently?
That’s exactly what happened to me...
I was commuting two hours each way to work and not having any time to spend with my daughter and my wife. But I couldn’t just stop working so I didn’t know what to do - but I knew I had to stop “losing days”.
Then one day, I decided to make a small change in my life. I decided that the next morning, instead of rushing to the early train as per my morning ritual, I would take the train after that one so I could have breakfast with my wife and daughter. Instead of being at my desk by 8:45a.m., I would get there a little after 9. Not a big change, but a start.
So, I commuted in on the later train that next morning and I was still in the subway at 8:45 a.m. instead of being in my office on the 96th floor of the World Trade Center. The morning I had breakfast with my family just happened to be 9/11.
That was my wake-up call!
Now I have completely changed my life’s path to serve as a Human Wake-Up Call™ for others. I help to shake them out of their complacency and get them past their fears and limiting beliefs so they can wake up to the possibility of their lives and start living authentically and on their terms!!
So let me ask you again: What if you had a second chance to live your life…on your terms? What would you do differently?
What are you waiting for...?
posted by Mike Jaffe @ 1:45 PM
5 comments
5 Comments:
Now that woke me up. Got chills just reading that little blurb.. and it's nothing I haven't heard already a bunch of times.
Powerful!
I just read your story 3 times and each time I got the chills. That is truly incredible.
What's more, I had a wake up call 3 years ago. I was commuting over 3 hours/day and completely missed the first 8 months of my daughter's life. So, with a new daughter and a new house and less than 2 months of living expenses in the bank, I quit my job and started my own business. It was completely insane, and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made.
Thanks for sharing your story.
Noah - congratulations on making the jump. It is both exhilirating and terrifying at the same time. Sounds like you felt a strong calling to start your own business.
While I wouldn't necessarily coach someone to quit their job with only two months cash in the bank, I do strongly encourage them to start creating and exploring a vision of the life they really want. It is most important to have a clear vision of 'what' you want and then we can figure out 'how' to get there, usually one step at a time (and there are unlimited possibilities on how to get there in a way that will work for your life).
Thanks for sharing.
Mike, your story is amazing, and your courage to change direction at a delicate situation is commendable, and inspiring.
It took me 60 years to wake up, re design my life, and tap into my childhood memories of Italy to write my book called Rainbows in the Fountain.
Unfortunately, I didn't have a mentor like you to guide me along the way, if I had, my search would have ended years earlier.
Thanks, you're an inspiration!!
Nicholas
very moving is what readily comes to mind after reading your post. like you felt shortly before 9/11, I'm also beginning to feel stuck in a rut. reading your comments has been very instructive.
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