Last Thursday I wrote about the changing experience that my beautiful wife K is going through transitioning from her life as a cube farm employee to a full time rehab entrepreneur (and not the rehab as in homes, but in body).  Before I talk about my central thought, I just want to offer my condolences to anyone who is works in a cube farm, especially if that cube farm is a government facility.  Friday was the first time that I got to see first hand K’s old work location (it is btw an award winning architecturally awesome looking building).  No matter how impressive and how “green” this building is, the inside was devoid of life.  Concrete walls, pillars, and drab grey cubes were overwhelmingly depressing.  No, not depressing, soul-sucking.

I used to joke that working in my cube at Games Workshop felt like prison (I even had a friend send me a set of real prison clothes for Xmas one year), but Games Workshop has/had nothing on STC and this NOAA building.  You see, above the cube farm on the “ground level” was a nice walk way, just like in a Prison.  Matter of fact they could have potentially filmed Prison Break in the NOAA building and no-one would be the wiser.

So beyond the environment itself, the building has a major lack of…noise.  I don’t know if it was the acoustics of the building or the sheer lack of humanity but you couldn’t hear anyone chatting, typing, or even snoring.  There were huge signs everywhere stating “SILENCE!”  or “SILENCE!” or “SILENCE” or my favorite, “SILENCE!”.  Don’t they know that as humans, we need to interact with one another?  That we are social animals who not only thrive with human interaction but also are more productive?  Then I remembered something, I was in a government facility.  The government doesn’t care (ok I had one person tell me that they do care, but I’m not here to argue for or against).  But it should.  Maybe that is why so many of my clients are high ranking government employees who make great salaries, yet hate their jobs.

So if you are reading this and you work in such an environment how do you go about changing it?  How do you get to live the Investor Lifestyle?  I can help.  I can give you two words that will change your world.  Two words that will put you on the path to freedom.  Two words that will open the “time-warp continuum” and open up the possibilities of change in your life!  Two words.  Want to know what those two words are?

Say It!

That’s right, SAY IT! Those are the two words, SAY and IT.  Two words that no matter what your situation, no matter what your lifestyle is today, no matter what you want to change, all you have to do is…SAY IT! Say, “I WANT TO CHANGE!” Say it like you mean it.  Say it out LOUD!  Say it to your friends, you family, your pets, your neighbors, your co-workers, but say it out LOUD!

You see once you invoke the words of change, change will come.  I was always the skeptic of such nonsense, such hocus pocus.  Bah, it’s some sort of mind trick, that stuff doesn’t do anything.  But it does.  Saying it out loud will begin to change your thoughts, and thoughts are a powerful thing.  Saying it out loud will cause things in your life to open up new paths for your life to travel.  Saying it out loud will open new doors and new friendships.  You see, when you say you want to change, then those of like mind will seek you out and that combined power is unstoppable.

I never believed in it as I’ve said before, but back in 2003 I began to say, “I am going to retire by the time I am 35.”  My boss heard me say it, my co-workers heard me say it, my wife feared I would do it, and most importantly I, little of me,  HEARD ME SAY IT, over and over.  I told everyone.

Fast forward to the end of 2004, the morning of September 11th.  It was a Saturday.  It was a DC-REIA meeting day, a day I promised my wife that I would join her at her stupid club meeting.  It was the day that changed my life.  No, the DC-REIA had nothing to do with it.  You see I awoke that morning and it felt as though K’s knee was soundly wedged right into the middle of my lower back.  So I grunted and shifted, but her knee kept up the pressure…then I realized K wasn’t in the bed with me and the pressure I felt was my lower back spasming out of control.  That day changed my life.  I was unable to sit or stand for more than 15 minutes at a time without white, mind numbing pain washing over me like cats claws on a scratching post.

That day set me on a path.  A path I never wanted to be on, but at first relished.  I didn’t have to go to work, you see.  How great is that?  I could lay about all day and do NOTHING.  Sound great?  It is, for all of about four days, but then it gets really, REALLY old.

It changed my life, but I will talk about that another day.  You see the story will jump ahead to December 17th of 2004, two days before my 35th birthday.  That day was my last day of employment with Games Workshop, who I had made millions and MILLIONS of dollars for, who I had served loyally for nearly ten years, who told me that, “IF you give yourself to the company, the company will always take care of you.”  Bollicks! I was told that I was being released because the company could not “set a precedence.”

One of my associates and co-workers said, “Well at least you were right, you are retired before you hit 35!”  And he was right.  Those words became true.  Because I opened my mouth over and over and said it.  I created the reality through the power of my words and set myself on a path that has not only been life changing and positive, but profitable.  Still don’t believe me?

I opened up today’s article talking about how K and I went to pick up her stuff at her old job, right?  Her co-worker Paul said something to me that is incredibly poingant, you see Paul said, “Well K has been saying that she would quit by the beginning of 2009.”  And as I sat there thinking about what Paul said to me, I realized she did.  We talked about her not continuing her employment at STC about 9 months ago.  She said to me, “I want to quit by my birthday next year.” (Which is at the end of January)

Over the course of this year, her body has begun to shut down and her back has begun to cause her undue pain. (sound familiar?)  I have watched her slowly degrade over the last few months as her back, stress, and everything else started to pile on her.  Then she got the news from her company, “The government knows you aren’t on site…you have to go on disability.”  Thus leading to the events of last Friday, when she signed the separation papers with her old company.  The amazing thing, as we drove away, I could sense that burden of her security blanket lift off of her.  Is she afraid for the future?  Probably.  Is she excited about the future? Most Likely.  Did her action of SAYING IT cause her to have those paths open to her, to make it go from a thought to reality?  Definitely.

I could site many other situations of people I have talked to recently who have begun to realize the power of the spoken word.  The power of changing their life just by saying it out loud.  Are you ready?

Then you have only one thing to do:

SAY IT!

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