009 | What Happens When No One’s Left to Watch...the hidden fear no one talks about with nowhere to be

The summer before I left my corporate job for good, a question was keeping me up at night:

What would I actually do if no one was telling me what to do?

Not in a weekend retreat kind of way.

I mean really…left to my own devices.

Outside the structure, the expectations, the built-in purpose of a career… what would happen?

I couldn’t answer that in between meetings and commutes.

So, I ran an experiment.

I took four weeks off, packed up my wife and kids, and drove 24 hours straight to my brother’s house. No work. No deadlines. No Housework. Just wide-open, unstructured time.

At first, it was freeing. But then… something strange started to happen.

* By the second week, boredom crept in.

* By the third, I found myself searching for something—anything—to latch onto.

* By the fourth, the answer I had been looking for hit me square in the face.

And that answer? It changed everything.

But it also led me straight into the next question. One I didn’t see coming.

I break it all down in this week’s audio, issue 009 of The Corporate Dropout.

If you’re navigating life after corporate like me, this one’s for you.

Onward!

Brad 8-)

P.S. Ever wonder what you’d do without a title, a team, or a corporate structure to define you? Yeah. Me too. Let’s talk about it. Pop in some earbuds and let’s go on a walk and talk together. Then join me live Wednesdays at DropTheCorporate.com

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