By David Galland in Casey’s Daily Dispatch:
We humans are a tough lot, but it is relatively easy for us to fall into a demoralizing mental rut.
I have a technique I have used [tough] circumstances – when everything just seemed to be wrong – that may be helpful.
I call it my “Godfather strategy,” named after the book/movie. As you may recall, in The Godfather the Corleone family is on the ropes, beset from all sides by other Mafiosi. Until, at the end of the movie, the Corleones wipe out everyone and everything that is bedeviling them in a single day, then pack up and head for Las Vegas to start over.
On several occasions in my life, when it dawned on me that I was “stuck” and life had become bound up in a poor job, a poor relationship, bad geography – whatever – I made a hit list of what wasn’t working, then set out to get it sorted ASAP. It may not take a day, but it’s amazing how much change you can effect, if you set your mind to it, in a couple of weeks or a month.
During one of my “Godfather” moves, I quit my job and sold or gave away pretty much everything I had. In a remarkably short period of time, I was setting my bags down in a foreign country – truly reborn and reinvigorated at the possibilities.
Could taking drastic action, while you still have the resources remaining to take it, make sense for you? I have no way of knowing – and executing your own Godfather strategy may end badly. But sometimes only by taking a big risk can a big change occur… hopefully, a big change for the better. And I wouldn’t rule out moving to a foreign country where the quality of life can be markedly better, and at a fraction of the cost of what it is in a more developed country.
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