10 REASONS YOU DONT WANT TO BE IN THE RAT RACE

We have heard so much about the rat race in modern like. What is the rat race that you want to escape from? A rat race is the perpetual on-going quest for the utopia American dream - it is the continuous quest for materialism - the endless, mindless, pointless self-defeating pursuit for higher standard of living.

The concept has currently been transformed into the modern day pursuit of success. We wake up in the morning, hardly have time  for breakfast as we race to work in the early hours in the morning, stuck in our cars or commuter trains to work in the corporate environment or whatever for 40 hours or so and rush back home tired to our love ones. What a way to live!!

Here are the ten reasons you don't want to be in the rat race.

1. The Corporation don't care about you - corporations are there to make a profit and whatever they can do to squeeze from you they will do it even if it means terminating or firing you at random. Always remember that corporate  pay structure are designed to keep you glued to the corporate ladder. A leading business executive admitted that "corporate pay scales are delicate structures designed to keep workers, managers and officers of the corporation satisfied, happy, and striving for more, while the corporation remains profitable". According to him the aim of corporate profitability is to keep taking in younger people at the lowest level and moving them up and very gradually increasing their pay. The net result is to make the employee, at some  state of his or her career, a captive of the corporation.

2. Encourages you to go into debt - the illusion is that you have a good paying job so you apply for all the credit card in the world paying astronomical interest rate. Not only that, but we have a car note, a mortgage payment and other obligations. As a result of this you need the paternal corporation as your life-blood. As soon as the life blood is cut there you are unable to survive. Isn't it time you wean yourself from the all knowing corporation and starting living your life?

3. No Time For Yourself - The increased pace of modern life does not have room for any recreational activities. I am in the real estate industry and I drive around neighborhoods where I see million dollar homes unoccupied as the inhabitants leave for work and return late in the evenings with hardly any time for family and children. I think there is more in life than material possessions.

4. No time to think - The rat race does not allow time for reflective thinking. What distinguishes the human race from animals is our ability to think. Whatever you have came to us though our thinking. I believe we would be able to fare better if we allow some time just to think. I have a saying "A mind expanded would not return to its original state."

5. Become an Entrepreneur - I know you have a lot of reason why you don't want to consider starting your own business. And listen I am not asking you to quit your job tomorrow. All I am telling you is to start thinking and looking at things differently. Don't wait until the lovely corporation fires you before you start thinking about starting your own business. If you have a skill or a gift start developing it and start marketing it on the internet for potential customers. There is more to life than 9-5 jobs. There are a lot of undercurrents in the economy that would make it difficult to sustain a permanent job for life.

6. You have a limited time on this planet - Do you want to spend your whole life doing things that you don't enjoy. After you strive for success and all that comes with it  remember that nobody will remember you in 100 years.

7. Start living below your means - make it a habit to save at least 10% of your income and be thrifty. In these days of extravagant living any suggestion for people to live below their means is dismissed, but it is one of the ways you can escape from the rat race.

8. Learn time management - Learn to use your prime time efficiently -Prime Time - is the period between 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm - that is the time when the networks charges a lot to the advertisers because of viewership. I was thinking why don't we use the prime time to advance own interest - like read, learn new habits, exercise , take a course etc. we can increase our potential exponentially -use the prime time to advance your interests.

9. Network with people with the same aspirations - Get a network going or start one yourself to encourage one another . Nobody said it is going to be easy, but networking with people with similar aims would help in the journey.

10. Listen to motivation tapes and seminars - You have to start thinking differently and listen to motivational tapes will help you gain a whole new perspective in life and help you change the rat race mentality to an independent thinking ready to fulfill your life's mission and purpose.