Friend of the newsletter Jim Roberts (and author of the jungle-based Monkey State thrillers – well worth checking out) drops me a line:

Sounds like you're getting there step by step with your book. I think what you do with your daily newsletter along with a full-time job, coaching and being a new parent is bloomin impressive. I'd say you're in a nice position where the book is a bit of a free hit and will give you a product alongside your service offering when ready. Scott Adams would be proud aha. 

A couple of things about this:

I think Scott Adams really would be proud.

I’ve borrowed a whole bunch of ideas from the Scott Adams playbook for my writing and coaching biz. Things like skill-stacking, systems not goals, making asymmetric bets and taking baby steps (teeny-tiny steps when it comes to publishing my new book Don’t Quit Your Job).

But perhaps the biggest idea I’ve taken from Scott is using my day job as an asset. 

Scott Adams used his day job as inspiration for Dilbert. I use my day job as inspiration for my daily emails.

And honestly, this is a huge part of how I juggle everything in my life.

Now, let’s be clear. I don’t mean “the way to find balance is by turning your job into a content machine”.

What I mean instead is there are 1,001 ways to relate to your job. 

Yet in the coaching conversations I have, most people relate to their job in one way and one way only: 

As a necessary evil.

That’s how I related to my job for over a decade too.

Looking back, I can see how being at war with my job stopped me being available for everything else in my life. And the reason I can juggle a full-time job with coaching, daily emails and being a new parent is because I'm not wrestling with my job day after day. 

I don't always get this right. 

But now I don’t spend all my time and energy resenting my job or trying to escape it, it’s much easier to show up for the rest of my life.

Today, my job looks like a cross between an experiment and a game. So it doesn't drain me like it used to. I can leave the office and leave my work there too. 

Again, I’m not saying “treat your job like an experiment” or “see your job like a game”. 

All I’m saying is once you find a lighter way to relate to your job, you’ll free up time and energy for everything outside your 9 to 5.

If you work a 9 to 5 job and you’d like to get home without feeling like a deflated balloon, I can help with that.

It’s the exact same shift I’ve made. So I know it’s possible and I can show you how.

Here’s where to go if you’re interested:

https://waitinglist.followingfulfilment.com

To fulfilment,

Tom