Zion Reflection

It is a Friday. I am in Utah in order to run a 50k race tomorrow. The race is in Bryce Canyon, which is why I was inspired to come here. I saw the pictures and said, "I must see that place."

Yesterday, I hiked around Bryce Canyon National Park. It was every bit as spectacular as I imagined. Incredible. No matter what happens with the race, I got to see that place.

Then there was the dilemma of what to do today. Lots of suggestions for beautiful things to see in this area. "Everyone" says to go to Zion. I don't want to go to Zion because I don't want to deal with crowds of people and shuttle buses. I want scenery, yes; but I also want quiet reflection walking. So I picked 2 other places to go to today.

Because I am not trying to organize a trip to Zion, which would have involved getting up early and beating everyone else to the parking places, I have time to reflect here in my hotel room.

I'm missing Zion, the most spectacular, in order to be quiet. Hummm...

I have a book called "Career Success Without a Real Job" by Ernie Zelinski. I brought it with me. I read it a few months ago as I pondered my decision to retire from my real job. Now, decision made to retire and I know what I am going to work on next, I brought the book for review and inspiration.

The second page caught my eye. "The purpose of this book is to inspire people loke you to reclaim their creativity, their freedom, and their lives." This sentence coming after a paragraph about engineers unsatisfied with corporate live and "they suffer their jobs badly and with silent indignity." EXACTLY!

The book is also for those who: want to find their own important mission, true calling, or passionate pursuit; want to gain courage to leave the corporate world; want to live an extraordinary life.

Yes to that. I need courage to leave mother corporation. I feel the call to do something more of my own creation. I have the desire to soar. I want to escape the boredom and waste of my job because it is killing my spirit.

I order to do this, I have to continually pump energy into the project of retirement and plans for "employment." Otherwise, I would succumb to the attitude of my current co-workers: just kick back and earn this great salary. Why pay for your own health insurance? Isn't it easier to have this salary than to try to do something on your own?

Years ago, more than 30, I was introduced to "The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck. I have mentally and spiritually been on that road. The energy of the words has never left me.

I must fly free. I have a budget which say yes I can. Somewhere I crossed a line which said, "more money is not the most important thing to me." Now, I am breaking the rules of corporate culture and also facing humanity's rules of survival. I must fly free.