With No Money, What Would I Do?
What would I do if I didn’t need money? This question came up over at Julien Smith’s “In Over Your Head” site. My post today is mostly my comment to his post, but it pertains well to “working.”
If I didn’t need any money:
- I would take on only a very few work projects at any one time and only ones that really interested me. The majority would be with solo artists or projects for very cool, little non-profits.
- I would speak more in front of people, not because it’s something I’m afraid of but because it’s something I so enjoy doing. It seems to bring out my old “performing” side that gives me so much joy.
- I would NOT spend time doing administrative work or projects.
Outside of work:
- I would read more books split evenly between fiction and non-fiction.
- I would take up photography again like I did when I was younger, not to do anything with the images, but simply for the process of taking the images and the joy I get from that. This would also take me to physical places I wouldn’t necessarily go to.
- I would sleep more (which would be possible because of a shorter, less demanding “to do” list. (I know from experience that when my “to do” list gets smaller, I sleep better.)
- I would exercise more than I do now (though I do already exercise a fair bit).
I could do all of these things but I need the courage to let go. Letting go of the incredibly strong feeling of having to say “yes” to work all the time is the toughest. (I’m not confusing this with other things in life that we do should say yes to).
In many ways, work life and non-work life blur already for me. I could see this becoming more the case. Now, I just need to tweak a little here and there, sell a condo, build a house on Hornby Island, and bang, I’ll then encounter the life I have just described!
Well, except for all the other things that will come up to complicate everything.
