This is the second article in the How Not To Series. Read the first one: This Is Why You Will Never Get Out Of The Real World.

“Stop living in the clouds and start living in the real world”

“You can’t travel the world for as long as you like, that’s not living in the real world”

“You can’t be as great as you want, that’s not living in the real world”

“I’m not sure this is such a good idea”

These mantras have been force-fed into your brain for as long, the words have formed meaning behind them, but you don’t have to believe in them.

You don’t have to live in the real world, you just have to keep the following tips in mind to make sure you don’t.

Ignore everything around you

Except the traffic when you cross the street.

Ignore the people constantly breathing down the back of your neck, prodding you and trying to get you to fit into their mindset of what the world should be like and what you are supposed to do with your life.

Politely smile at whatever it is they are trying to tell you and just keep walking.

You can say thanks and I will ignore everything you have just said or just say okay in that vague sort of way. The Chirpy has then gotten a response and will leave you alone for the moment and you can continue doing what it was you were doing before they interrupted you.

Find out what you want to do

Most people living in the real world don’t know what they want to do with their lives, that’s why they go to the real job in the real world every day, because they haven’t found what they are truly passionate about.

 Spend some time thinking about what you truly enjoy, what you would do if you didn’t have to go to work everyday. How would you spend your time? What do you live to do on the weekends?

Do everything you can to live your dream

You have found your dream, now go and do everything you can to make it so.

If you want to travel the world, start looking at the different ways you can travel around and where you want to go in the first place.

Want to make million dollars – start reading how other people did it.

You want to get out of the real world – keep reading this blog as I tell you how I did it.

Ignore what everyone else is doing

Not only do you have to ignore what everyone else is saying you have to ignore what they are doing. This is aimed the people in the real world, don’t ignore the people that are living your dreams otherwise you will miss important lessons.

But the people in the real world don’t matter. It doesn’t matter what they are doing because you are not them and they are trying to do something completely different to you.

The sooner you learn to focus solely on what you are doing in your life the easier it gets to do what you want to be doing.

A lot of people live in the real world, but just because they do doesn’t mean you have to as well.

Just look at how unhappy a lot of people are with their life, they live in the real world.

Do you really want to be one of them?

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1. This Is Why You Will Never Get Out Of The Real World
2. A Real Job in the Real World or Travelling The World?
3. How Not To Get A Real Job

The real world is the last place you want to be. In the real world you spend your days drifting, never actually living and spending every day going to your real job that you hate. It’s a place where your dreams are never fulfilled, where you never set foot outside your own neighbourhood, never travel and don’t really live your life at all.

For a lot of people out there, at least one point here applies to you here, but like most people stuck in the real world, you will do nothing to change, you won’t stop going to that real job, and you won’t stop living in the real world. That’s why you are stuck there.

For you, I hope you can change, maybe seeing this article printing out what is already stuck in your head as a nagging feeling of unease, will help you get out of your own hole in the real world and into your world. Into a world where you can travel as much as you want and where you don’t have to have a real job and live in the real world.

You think there’s only the real world out there

You can’t escape from something when you believe there’s nothing to escape from. Like the frog dying slowly in the heating pot, one day you will wake up and it will be too late. You would have truly embraced the Chirpy mantra and the door to your world will close. Travel will seem too hard, too expensive and life will consist of going to that job you don’t like every day for the rest of your life and complaining about everything.

The first step to getting out of the real world is realising that it’s not the only place you have to live your life, by reading this, you have created awareness. You have started thinking, looking at the world a bit differently. This is the hardest step, to realise that maybe what everyone has been telling you isn’t exactly right.

As a teenager you were always defying what your parents were telling you, now is the perfect time to rediscover your inner teenager and start to question everything you have been told about the real world and how to live your life.

You will be surprised how much will change when you start to question the real world, how many doors will open, and eventually someday soon, the door will open to your world and you have escaped the real world.

You want a real job

Getting a real job is the quickest and fastest way to sign your own death warrant and remain in the real world forever. Once you get a real job, your world fades and these grand motions, ideas and lifestyles fade into the background until they are nothing more than the foolishness of youth.

Real jobs are something you don’t enjoy. Something used to pay for the lifestyle of being a real worker in the real world. See A Real Job in the Real World or Travelling The World to see how much a real job will cost you compared to travelling the world.

To get out of your real job, find something you want to do. Ignore the Chirpys around you that say it can’t be done. Find something you are passionate about, doing a job you like won’t seem like work and if you look hard enough, you can find a way to support yourself by doing something you love.

You don’t want to travel

“The World is a book and those who do not travel, read only a page” Saint Augustine

Why travel when everything you could ever want is right where you are? The foreign countries are too dangerous, too strange, and why should you go travelling when everyone knows that you live in the best country in the world, everyone should be visiting you.

Not only are these arrogant thoughts, they’re just plain wrong. It’s not until you travel, to really and truly see how other people live their day to day life that you realise that there is more out there than the real world.

Go do something in your town only the tourists do. Try and see your city as foreigners do, start talking to the many tourists that wonder through your city. Not only will you start to understand why other people come to your town, those travellers can tell you about their home town. Your eyes will start to open and see there is more out there.

You cut other people down

This is the sole purpose of Chirpys, and I would hate to think that anyone would want to be a Chirpy. These people spend their days trying to cut people down to their level, because once upon a time they were the people with the ideas, the interesting lifestyle. Until for some reason or another, they stopped living in their world, stopped believing in themselves and stopped tuning out their own Chirpys. They want nothing more than to return the favour so they can feel better about their own failed dreams of glory.

Sometimes you don’t even realise you are doing it, until that person you were talking to you walks away off into the sunset to fulfil their own dreams. All the while you are stuck sitting back telling yourself that they too will fail and come back and start living in the real world.

Stop talking for one day. If your real job makes this impossible, if you’re in a customer service role for instance, just talk to the customers. Don’t gossip, don’t say anything non job related and just listen. Are people around you cutting other people down? Have you been hanging out with Chirpys? If you are, you’re probably a Chirpy yourself. No one would willingly hang out with a Chirpy if they weren’t one themselves.

Cut yourself off from them, or at least stop taking their words as fact and try to figure out what you truly believe.

Are you still living in the real world? Have you actually made it to the bottom of this article? If you have, well done, you at the very least have started your path – now you are aware that there is more than just the real world.

The next step is to start questions everything, find something you love to do, question until you can find a way to do it every day and keep opening doors until you find your world.

Good luck and I hope to see you around the world some day.

For more information on not living in the Real World see the next in this series:

How Not To Live In The Real World.

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1. How Not To Live In The Real World
2. A Real Job in the Real World or Travelling The World?
3. How Not To Get A Real Job