Starting My Journey

Joe Measell
3 min readNov 5, 2020

Well, here we go. I guess this is blogging, I have wanted to try this for awhile, but I haven’t made the attempt to actually start. This marks the first blog of, hopefully, many, but who knows. Ideally, I am looking for this to be a place where I spill out my daily thoughts in no order whatsoever. I am hoping this will be of value to some of my readers…. Hell…. Will people actually read this? Well, if you find yourself on my page and reading through some of my posts I do hope you wll find some sort of enjoyment.

This blog is going to be a lot about how I am feeling and what I am doing, and it will follow my journey to achieving clarity and peace of mind. Recently those are the two things that dominate my mind. Clarity and peace of mind. Imagine having full clarity of what you want, who you are and why you are here. That is the ultimate goal isn’t it? People walk through life blindly putting hours upon hours into a dream that isn’t their only to retire at an old age and maybe gain some sort of peace of mind, but I wonder if they ever achieved a sense of clarity? Clarity is power, clarity is control, clarity is my most desired outcome in life right now.

My most desired outcome in life…. that is a powerful statement to make. What am I doing to achieve clarity you may ask. Hell, I ask this question all of the time. The best answer I have for you, and myself is, not enough. I am currently one of the billions of people giving a full 40 hours or more per week of their life to someone else’s dream or vision that in no way shape or form has anything to do with my most desired outcome. However, I do recognize that I am gaining skills that will further develop me as a human in this current position. The position I am currently in is not my ideal job, but then again no “job” is ideal. To me a job is something that you have to do, not necessarily want to do. That is not something I want to be doing all of my life. That makes for a miserable life of working for the weekends, vacations and holidays. Then next thing you know 40 years have passed you by… Sounds a bit like a country song, but there is a lot of truth in that. There is also something to be said about finding your passion within your current job whatever that may be, and I do think that is an interesting way to look at things. I don’t think that is the best way to go through life. Find what you are passionate about and go for it, do things that you want to do. Make a difference, work to achieve clarity! By god this has been an all over the place kind of rant, if you have made it this far, I’d like to formally apologize for stringing you along to an inconclusive ending. However, I will end this post here by saying…. Goodnight.(I will work on my closing statement from here on)

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Joe Measell

Hello! I am going to be sharing random thoughts and feelings here 3–4 times weekly. Maybe you’ll get something good from these reads and maybe you won’t. Enjoy!