How to Avoid the Rat Race and Still Be Successful

The search for a successful career without sacrificing your soul is simple, if you think you put it. Have a clear idea of ​​what you want in life, be realistic and work towards these goals. Some people are so enamored of the rat race, that the work is not an end in itself and as a means to an end.
Have clear objectives in mind
Within many years as reflect on how you played in your life that you wish you had spent more time chasing your heart desires, or if you want to spend more time in the office? Wealth, power and position are important, but they all have one purpose: to lead a good life too. Many people forget this fact and consider the work itself or work just because people work, with no goal or purpose in life.
The basic premise of the good life is to have clear goals in mind and the objectives need to increase the workplace. Think about their interests to do what you have maximum enjoyment, as long as you really wish you could spend with your family, if you want to contribute something to society, and more. Determine the time and expense it takes to achieve those goals. Review these goals regularly, but not to higher goals as you approach them go.

The work towards the goals
Then note the number of years you expect to work, and keep the number of years you expect to live in retirement, and the amount you need to burn the house fire at this time. Calculate how much it would cost to achieve the desired lifestyle during these years and the nest egg that you care to leave their children. Factor in inflation by calculating the present value of future expenditures.


Now let this total by the number of years you expect to have to work. Once again the present value of future income to seek parity. The amount you need to get what they want to achieve through work.
Not only is it necessary in this regard, and not tempted to work for that little extra. Time is much more than money. Time is life. For example, if you work 35 hours per week you can do what you want to work only for this time and 50 hours (except in emergency cases at once, if you require an employer you can work overtime ) and spend the rest follow the desires of your heart.
Wealth is good but is useless if not used. The coin in the hand is not worth the paper if it is for goods and services you buy change. The accumulated account balance, while all his hard work its time that all your energy in the process of any use to your spouse and children, but not for himself.
Be realistic
The mutual rivalry accumulation of the good things of life are common. If man has a mountain of gold, is his natural and innate tendency not to rest until it has spread. You can also, if your neighbor buys a new boat, then we can not rest until you have purchased a plane! While greed is good, and benchmarking, what else can be done in a similar situation is a good idea to do with the limitless ambition, or restoring an ambition based on what the other is a recklessness and a way guaranteed disappointment. No two people are alike, and others, even if they have similar jobs or funds as may have different priorities in life.
Although not a sin to desire, the life of luxury, to be realistic. For example, the rest of his life spent in a resort with everything possible, which is surrounded should arise only in the movies or for a small percentage of the population with a silver spoon. For the rest of us, with the leave year can be expected to be possible. Always looking at people below their social or economic, rather than the people above you, and you'll be happy.
Work smarter, not harder
The biggest obstacles for people in the face is life with the above work and inability to meet their desired goals in life, even after long hours. For the most part, a slog day and night to make just enough to make a living. Any other justification for their hard work, it seems hard as they can work to reap the rewards later. These people are working harder, to work overtime on holiday, and being obsessed with networking and skill development training to the extent that family life is an annoying distraction. In this state of affairs, creative activities or interests is the last thing on your mind. The result is stress, the breakdown of family life, and general dissatisfaction.
Another manifestation of the attempt to reach unrealistic goals, or to forget the ultimate purpose of the work to enjoy unethical behavior, such as lying, down on fraud, embezzlement and other vices. These actions will always boomerang and cause job loss, no possibility of re-employment, and even jail.
Understand that you do not live twice. Life is too short to waste time on useless activities. Take this time to take a walk through the woods, take a holiday in this mountain resort, spend much time with their children. Setting to avoid such activities, and not vice versa.
The solution to do all this without compromising work harder instead of smarter working. They do not earn enough during normal working hours to the means to carry out a standard of living, whether your goals are unrealistic or unattainable, and to be reviewed, or are in the wrong job or wrong job and should be changed. There are many ways to make peace:

    Looking for other opportunities in which more for the same effort. For example, if you work for $ 20 an hour, take time to look for opportunities that offer $ 40 per hour. Many people do not know how they are installed in the routine and fear change the status quo. Overcoming this resistance to change.

    Consider the possibility of acquiring new skills for a new career that pays well. For example, came before the competition and the Internet, writers earned up to $ 150 per page. This is no longer possible. The best approach is for the remaining races to be recession-proof and strong, always decide, regardless of the state of the economy. But not everyone can be a career. For others, the use of what is, in the short to work in the short term, and be willing to change. For example, if tanks are trying to recession, job prospects in his career, something different, even temporarily, before the demand on your core business again.

    Understanding the supply chain what you are doing. Even if you are in employment, which owes its position and value-added supply chain. You will understand that someone in the supply chain has a larger cut than the rest of the addition of an equal or lesser value. In your case could be your boss. Evaluate if you take a position. For example, if you have the skills, ability, drive, ambition, resources and risk tolerance, your boss in order to replicate the business model and start her own business.

    Manage time well. Very often the reason to work hard with stress or overtime work, procrastination, and establishing work priorities, and other bad practices of time management. Tips to get things done quickly and without hesitation, the right of establishment of priorities, putting first things first, efficiency and the other to take the stress of work.

    Use the power of technology. The technology allows more work with less time, improve efficiency, and raises many possibilities open was not possible. Only rarely is someone who does not use the emerging technology of life goals.
The preparation for the pursuit of professional success, ideally start in the high school level. But as the saying goes, "the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today." Therefore, if the bad decisions of education or a career before, and the attainment of realistic life goals, do not despair. Begin now to work, and goals accordingly.