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The Power of Emotion (When Deciding to Get Off the Road)

For those of you that travel and bear the mark of SPG, Marriott, Delta, and American Airlines superheroes, I salute you.
I too have gone through a phase of traveler entitlement. I bore the credentials that would make you wonder why I even paid a mortgage or drove a nice car.

And then it all changed. 
As soon as the switch flips that tells you that there is more to life than being able to pick your amenity for being a Platinum Rewards member, the oh sh*t moments begin to occur. The emotion behind the decision to stop traveling and get out of not just the rat race, but the perpetual rat 100 meter dash is overwhelming.
It makes you see things in companies that you want to see. Maybe that's influenced by the number of entrepreneurial magazines you've read while waiting in the airport. It's definitely influenced by all the success stories of people that have left the grind before you that have gone on to bigger and better things. 
Confirmation bias kicks in like a m*ther f*cker
You want to believe the hype. The power of emotion can undo any methodical or logical thinking that many years of analytic training has instilled.
As the guy that exemplifies the opposite of those success stories, I ask you to read Decisive by the Heath Brothers and digest / follow the process. Most importantly, really absorb the 'P' in the WRAP process-- prepare to be wrong. 
Then push yourself to define what your values are, what your purpose is, and what meaningful work really means. 
After all, now you have the time. 

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