Dealing with the fears of lifestyle design

As a lifestyle designer, you constantly take risks. What you don’t realize, is even if you haven’t fully implemented your 4 hour lifestyle, you are taking risks everyday. I can understand the risks of negotiating a remote work agreement with your employer, or outsourcing pieces of your business in order to give yourself more freedom of time. Remember the goal is to put your income on autopilot as much as possible, that can be a scary though in of itself.

As a lifestyle designer, the key is to calculate your risks. There are some simple steps to do this.

First, when considering that dreamline, consider what the WORST possible thing that could happen would be if you were to focus your time and energy accomplishing that dreamline. Please keep in mind, the things we fear the most will likely never happen. Once you have listed the WORST things that can happen to you, write down what you would do in order to overcome that horrible thing.

Take negotiating a remote work agreement for example. The steps you need to take in order to negotiate the remote work agreement is to approach your employer regarding this, what is the worst thing that can happen here, your fired. First I have to ask, do you really see that happening? In all likeliness the worst that will happen is a no. If you take no for an answer, you haven’t negotiated, nor have you prepared for your journey with lifestyle design. Go back to the drawing board.

Let’s say that your employer lets you go for asking for this, how would you handle this situation? You would find a new job right? Maybe work somewhere you don’t really want to work while you get back on your feet right? What is the alternative? Never accomplishing that dreamline because you failed to take control and design your perfect lifestyle, right?

If your afraid of the rejection, I want you to pick of the phone right now and attempt to contact 5 people who have a lot of money, ask them each to loan you a quarter of your salary. This will get you used to rejection. In the world of business, we need to get used to rejection anyway, it happens.

Sit down tonight, face your biggest fear about lifestyle design, and deal with it. Make a list of the worst things that can happen, and what would you would do if that particular scenario came true, then consider the likeliness of that happening.

~Lifestyle Design