JOHN WILLIAMS’ BLOG ON CREATIVE WORKING, PLAYING & LIVING
How would you like to take a year off? Let’s say the whole of 2009.
Sound appealing?
OK, I hereby give you my permission. Done.
Now, what is it you’re going to do in this precious year of total freedom?
Spend a year sitting on the beach, doing nothing? Or do you know that after the first couple of weeks, you’d be itching to do something else? If so, what? What exactly will you do for the other 11 months?
Maybe you’ll do some stuff you’ve been wanting to do for a long time: Write a book, record an album, start your own business, write a blog, travel the world, do something radical to your house, take your photography really seriously, have your own exhibition, become a public speaker, get into TV, go work alongside a hero of yours, or change some piece of the world for the better.
Or maybe you’ll just get fit & healthy, start eating right, cure that rumbling medical gripe, or work out how to make yourself genuinely happy. Or will you focus on finding a partner, creating a great relationship, trying for a baby, or healing a rift in your family. Perhaps you’ll just spend the time working out what it is you really want out of life, why you’re here, and start your journey to do it.
So choose.
Because 2009 is around the corner. Maybe you can’t take the whole year off work in reality, but you can join me in a one year experiment to put what’s really important first and create something unique to you that really matters.
Join me and become a Creative Maverick.
Screw work, let's play! Join my mission to play all day and get paid - to do whatever creative, fun stuff we feel like doing and make a good living out of it.
Is it possible that this will lead to far greater success, wealth, and happiness than following your current career plan? Join me, John Williams, on the one year Creative Maverick experiment and find out.
Rosemary Smeall
January 8th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
I am actualy about to take a year off. I’m completely burnt out and I will be skint but in my life journey I need to get back to being NOT doing
John
January 8th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Good luck Rosemary. Let me know how you get on!
John