It’s time to cash your reality check and re-create your life on your own terms.
In your twenties you expect to finally live life on your own terms. But it can seem like the world won’t cooperate. Roommates drive you crazy (but you can’t afford to lose them), entry-level jobs frustrate you ("Four hundred double-sided copies before lunch,"), and even a dream job can take over your nights and weekends, leaving you feeling like you are running hard but going nowhere.
Jason Ryan Dorsey helps you turn this coming-of-age crisis into opportunity. He shows you the big secret of the real world--that you don’t realize how much control you have over your life until you use it. In My Reality Check Bounced! Jason shows you how to:
Find the courage to climb out of your real-world rut
Create a Future Picture that gets you off your "buts"
Uncover opportunity and build a tag team to make the most of it
Live like you mean it, and finally cash your reality check.
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1 STAND UP FOR YOUR LIFE!
We are all born unable to take care of ourselves. Living with meaning and purpose is a learned behavior.
Reality--Check Moment-- THIS ISN'T WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR!
Tiffany, twenty--four, arrived distracted and anxious at the tiny coffee shop where we had agreed to meet. Despite her stylish business suit and expensive haircut and makeup, Tiffany had the look. I have seen it so often among twentysomethings in her situation. She was frustrated and disillusioned, wondering why her life just didn't feel right.
Tiffany thought she'd done everything she was supposed to. She made dean's list at her college and, after graduating, landed a great job. Now she was supposed to be spreading her wings, dating her true love, enjoying her career, and going on exciting adventures. Instead, the long hours and short tempers made her feel constantly on edge and insecure. She was asking herself the question about her place in life that haunts so many talented people in our generation: "Is this it?"
She felt trapped, stuck and confused. That's why she called me. She heard from a mutual friend that I helped people like her find their way again.
Tiffany ordered a double latte, then she cautiously confessed: She wasn't getting enough sleep. She didn't have time for her friends, family, or love life. She'd stopped working out. She was smoking too much. She wanted more freedom and sense of purpose. Despite working in a busy office six and sometimes seven days a week, she felt alone and lost. At twenty--four years old, Tiffany felt she was running hard but going nowhere.
"I never imagined I'd be in this position," she told me. "Maybe I was just young and naive, but I thought everything would fall into place and I'd love my life. It hasn't and I'm not. I'm stressed out all the time. I don't want to go to work; some days I don't even want to get out of bed. It's depressing. And I don't know what to do about it. I feel so confused. Nothing in college prepared me for this. Now I keep asking myself, Is this what I worked so hard for?"
Tiffany's reality check had bounced.
WELCOME TO THE REAL WHIRLED
Tiffany's not the only twentysomething who hasn't cashed in on her real--world dreams. Are you no longer a kid, but still unsure where you're headed or what your life's all about? Do you constantly find yourself settling for the safe path, rather than chasing what you most want? Are you spending hours downloading music or surfing the Web, chatting with friends on your cell phone, or watching late--night cable TV rather than living in the moment?
Are you helplessly watching your credit--card debt get bigger and bigger, while your relationships get shorter and shorter? Are you a victim of a bad economy, a mountain of college loans, or an egotistical boss? Are you living back in the house in which you grew up, sleeping in your old bedroom, pleading for gas money? Or do you find yourself trying to share one bathroom with five roommates? Do you still not have the love life you want, the friendships you want, the adventures you want, the home you want, the body you want, the career you want, the respect you want, and the clear sense of purpose you want?
To make matters more frustrating, you know you deserve better. You're smart. You can work hard when it matters. You know how to push yourself when you need to. You also were raised to think this was supposed to be one of the best times of your life, but it doesn't seem all that euphoric right now.
All these factors make your situation only more frustrating and, in some...
Synopsis
It’s time to cash your reality check and re-create your life on your own terms.
In your twenties you expect to finally live life on your own terms. But it can seem like the world won’t cooperate. Roommates drive you crazy (but you can’t afford to lose them), entry-level jobs frustrate you ("Four hundred double-sided copies before lunch,"), and even a dream job can take over your nights and weekends, leaving you feeling like you are running hard but going nowhere.
Jason Ryan Dorsey helps you turn this coming-of-age crisis into opportunity. He shows you the big secret of the real world--that you don’t realize how much control you have over your life until you use it. In My Reality Check Bounced! Jason shows you how to:
Find the courage to climb out of your real-world rut
Create a Future Picture that gets you off your "buts"
Uncover opportunity and build a tag team to make the most of it
Live like you mean it, and finally cash your reality check.
Reviews
Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Success Principles...
"My Reality Check Bounced! reveals exactly how to break free of your real-world rut to find your authentic, meaningful path. This book should be required reading for all Twentysomethings!"
Kenan Thompson, actor and comedian, Saturday Night Live, Kenan & Kel...
"I've known Jason for six years, and in all six years I've seen him help people our age make life-changing decisions for the better. He is a real inspiration for our generation."
Abby Miller, co-author, Quarterlife Crisis...
"Jason Dorsey offers irresistable inspiration for quarterlifers in crisis. His step-by-step strategies will get you moving in the right direction."
About the Author
Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Ryan Dorsey wrote Graduate to Your Perfect Job when he was just eighteen, and it went on to sell 200,000 copies. He has since spoken to more than 500,000 young adults and those who educate and employ them. Winner of the Austin Under 40 Entrepreneur of the Year Award at age twenty-six, Dorsey has appeared on Today and The View and in Teen People. He lives in Austin,...
