Expanding Your Personal Autonomy

Instead of "Employee Engagement" driven by HR, get excited about "Life Engagement" driven by you.

There are three things I know more than ever after leaving corporate and “traveling the world and the seven seas.”¹ (Or at least spending a decent portion of last year in Europe and sailing on a couple seas on a boat journey back to the United States.)

I spent 15 nights on this bad boy, sailing from Rome to NYC on a wildly inexpensive “repositioning cruise.” It’s just way more fun to call it a “boat journey,” and feels accurate since it was my form of transport from Europe to America.

Well, there are, like, 903 things I know more than ever, but for the sake of this post, I’ll share just three:

1. The goal of life is not to get to a point where you do nothing. It’s to find/create something you like and don’t want to retire from. I’m not advocating workaholism, but rather prolonged interest in creative and intellectual pursuits.

2. You need to create personal and financial autonomy in order to have options for exploration and leaving your job.

3. Right now is the perfect time to wake up and get seriou…