My #3YearQuitAnniversary
I was lucky enough to spend my 3 year anniversary of the day I quit my job in Salvador, Bahia. Here’s a quick recap of that time in my life.
3 • 3 || When I decided that I was going to be an Inspirational Explorer. Nobody including me knew what that meant. I made the title up! LOL. I happened to be in LA at a networking event and ran into a life coach. I told him that I desperately needed to meet with him because I had an idea of what I wanted to do but I didn’t know what exactly that meant I needed to do tomorrow. I also told him that since I quit my job, I didn’t have any money to pay him. He said “many people say they want to change their lives, but they don’t want to put forth the work. I’d much rather you not waste my time than pay me.” 1st off I took that as an insult because how dare you think I’ma waste yo time, secondly I had something to prove, thirdly I had just quit my job soooo I didn’t have a choice. We met two days later and essentially what he said was, “Lauren you are what it is that you say you want to be, the world just doesn’t know it yet. You need to start branding yourself as that.” Honestly that was all I needed to hear. He gave me a list of items for homework one of which was to start building a platform. Hours after that meeting, I bought the domain for #cantstayput. While living on @picturethisvic’s couch I decided I needed to go on my first official #cantstayput trip. It’s one thing to tell people what you do and it’s another to actually show them. With no money and no job I was determined to make this first project work. I changed the screen saver on my phone and computer to southeast Asia. The mission was to document how to travel on $30/day. I put together a proposal and literally sent it out to everyone I knew. Most people didn’t respond, others were like I’m not paying for you to go on vacation, others were like oh thats cute but hell naw. But then I got my first yes! Someone I met through my previous job gave me $2,500 on the strength of my passion. He said, “I know I’m not going to get my money back but your passion and excitement about this leaves me to believe that you’re not going to quit. You’re going to stick with this until you figure it out. I just want to be one of the people that believed in you from the start.” 📷: @rodsvndcones #ItMy3YrQuitAnniversary
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