Two years ago I was sent home, along with everyone else in my office, to do whatever it is we do (I’m not sure my manager knows what any of us do) from home.
Everything was great.
I’ve been a remote worker for most of my professional career, having worked with teams across the globe. Remote work is my sweet spot, I love it.
We all had time on our hands since we no longer had to commute to the office. And plenty of money since we weren’t buying gas and paying tolls and dropping $15 a day on a crappy lunch.
Some of us lost weight - the found time gave us time to work out.
Some of us gained weight - working from a home office chained us tighter to our desks.
Some of us lost our jobs - due to the government forcing businesses to close.
Some of us created new jobs.
But we were told we were all in this together, so it would all be OK right?
I guess we will be.
But then the messaging changed.
To pretty much nothing.
Biden is the U.S. President, Russia invaded Ukraine, people are still smoking cigarettes and not getting any exercise, and babies all over the world are still dying because they don’t have access to safe drinking water.
Anyone?
What’s next?
I’m not trying to bum you out, I just want you to think.
We are the future. It has always been that way. People coming together and working to make things happen.
To make the world a better place.
I thought making the world a better place was a pipe dream for the naive, but it turns out it is possible.
You can 100% change the world for the better by taking a few simple steps:
Improve your life.
Improve the life of someone close to you.
Improve your community.
I’ve worked on improving my life over the past few years by starting to write more, it has created some interesting opportunities, the most notable being that I ghostwrite blog posts and emails now. It’s interesting work and I’m always doing something different.
This has given me time to be with my family, and do more traveling over the past year than I’ve done in my life. Travel with my family, in a camper, throughout a good chunk of the U.S.
As for improving the community, I’m helping my wife work on her non-profit whose sole purpose is to raise funds to take care of animals in our local shelter. We have paid for many life-saving surgeries, bought food and supplies, and paid fees for transferring to other rescue organizations.
Look outward.
It’s crazy being two years into this.
The first 6 months to a year were spent trying to get my legs under me.
Then it became routine, boring, and I was falling into a dark hole.
I had to blast myself out by pulling up and looking out.
I realized that I am able to reach people with my words, so I did, and helped others reach more people, and paying customers.
Then it all trickled down from there.
I think about this often:
No matter how much I think my life sucks at the moment, someone is in worse shape and could use my help.
Someone could probably use your help too.
Find them.
Thanks for reading,
Travis
Sometime some writings are masterpieces. Your this article is more like that. I again lived my last two years... Thanks.
So true, thanks