Life Blueprint
Most people tend to follow something I call the life blueprint like lost sheep… but, it doesn’t have to be like that…
In a few of my articles I often talk about something I have come to call the “life-blueprint”.
What I mean by this is that it’s like humans are following a kind of blueprint from the moment they are born; it’s almost like most people’s lives are already mapped out for them.
Think of it like this for a moment.
(By the way, I apologise in advance, this is a slightly longer article than some of my others, but that said, if YOU are serious about changing your own life blueprint, then I encourage you to read to the end).
Most people follow the same life blueprint, of going to nursery, followed by primary school, followed by high school, and then followed by college or university, before eventually getting a job.
Why do people do this?
Generally, there is one aim, to get a decent education and good grades, and to get a good job, and the main reason for that, is to achieve a better income level.
Ironically, those that do go on to further education to achieve a better income, often end up spending the first few years of their working lives trying to pay off those student debts and loans!
But, as I have written about in other articles, just because we all need a level of income to pay for the cost of living, doesn’t mean to say that the only way to create that income is to work for others and often an unappreciative boss.
WHY?
People follow this life blueprint though because it’s what their parents did. Its what their grandparents did, and going back through the generations, its pretty much what most people do.
In other words, people have effectively become “conditioned” to think that their expected purpose is to get those good grades to get a good job, working for someone else.
In fact in my day, school in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s was very sexist, opinionated, and misguided; boys were generally expected to take up things like metalwork, woodwork, and electronics, whilst girls were expected to take up things RSA typing, almost as though all they were destined for was to become a secretary.
Obviously, times have changed (slightly) in more recent years, although I suspect there is still a long way to go yet, and subjects such as entrepreneurship and money management are still being missed out for a lot of people.
Ha-ha! I do have to admit one thing though, when I was at school I hated math!, and could never understand why I needed to know about algebra and fractions! – of course, once I started studying electrical engineering and electronics, I soon realised that I would actually come to use algebra on an almost daily basis, but that’s another story!
(By the way, in my day we were always led to believe it was “maths” not “math” – maybe yet more evidence of being conditioned to believe what you were told, because we didn’t know any different at the time – in fact, during the global coronavirus pandemic when kids were off school, I remember my own child being sent work from school about things like roman numerals, and I kept thinking that it was a waste of time (ha-ha there’s probably a joke there somewhere!)
But seriously though, I do think the curriculum needs a massive overhaul, for example, whilst I’m sure it’s interesting to learn about how many wives King Henry had, unless you plan to become a history teacher or work in a museum, its probably not going to help kids earn a living (and lets face it, if they really wanted to know about King Henry, ironically they could research it on the internet these days).
The point is, core basics are more important, such as reading and writing, Math (or whatever it’s called this week), Business Studies, Economics, Law and Order, and Money Management, and better understanding of other people’s cultures, and global environmental issues.
Now, to be fair, some people do escape the standard life blueprint, and they become entrepreneurs and business owners, and ironically, its often those people who then usually end up employing the ones who didn’t escape that blueprint!
I have mentioned this before in some of my articles and videos, but there was never a time at school when it was suggested that I could be ambitious and run my own business, I too was “encouraged” to accept the life blueprint, and I, like most, was slotted into an off-the-shelf style career, and as mentioned, in my case I studied and trained in electrical engineering and electronics.
If I had said at one of my school careers interviews that I wanted to become a boss like Richard Branson or Alan Sugar, then they would have just laughed at me, and dismissed the idea.
We were mostly being taught “parrot fashion” because teachers (even now) had to follow the government issued curriculum.
The point is though, none of us HAVE TO accept being slotted into a career decided by others.
So that means it’s still not too late for YOU to change course and escape the standard life blueprint, just like I did, please let me explain…
If any of you have read one of my books then you may recall that after I left school, and after my electrical engineering and electronics training etc, I initially worked for a few years in the professional entertainments industry in technical and production management.
Admittedly, I enjoyed those years in entertainment, ha-ha the word “showbiz” makes it sound a bit too glamorous though to be fair; yes I was privileged to have worked alongside numerous famous celebrities, from pop stars to top comedians, and working on everything from illusion shows, major pop concerts, award shows, national ice show tours, conferences (a bit less exciting!), and TV & Video productions, and over the years I have even been able to keep in touch with some celebrities I now call friends.
But… what an audience sitting in their seats at 7.30pm in a theatre often don’t realise, is that all the cast and crew behind the scenes had probably already been working since 6am that morning, and still had several more hours in front of them too!
And so, I guess that after a few years, as I started a family, the long unsocial hours caused me to switch to a more “normal” 9 to 5 career.
Ironically, little did I realise at that time, that I would then end up spending most of the next 20 or 25 years trying to escape that very same “9 to 5” ! (Stop laughing, it seemed like a good idea at the time!).
Now, I don’t want to bore you senseless with all the other ups and downs during those 20 or so years trying to escape the 9 to 5 (but if you would like to learn about my background and journey in more detail, then you are welcome to read one of my books), but the point is, after a series of linked discoveries, I was finally able to embrace digital opportunities and escape the 9 to 5 in 2016.
And that is exactly the point of this article; given that digital opportunities are now more accessible as technology and methods constantly evolve, you too could start your own digital journey.
If you would like to learn more, please take a look at the links below to get a copy of one of my books (available in paperback from Amazon), and there is also a link to a FREE digital foundation course where I go into a little more detail about three core methods I initially used to create my own digital lifestyle, and escape the 9 to 5 and change the course of my own life blueprint.
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