I asked my mentor what I could do to achieve my next goal, and he suggested I write the narrative of my life, my epic, from the perspective of my death bed. What did my life look like? Did I live a life of fulfillment? Only then, he said, would I be able to look at my next goal and know how best to get there.
When we pause and see how interconnected we are, we’ll realize it is impossible NOT to have an effect on others far beyond our knowing. While we may never know what effect our life has on others, it doesn’t mean the effect we do have is insignificant.
In life, you will make mistakes and you will experience setbacks. Our feelings about mistakes shift a great deal in our youth. In the process of learning to walk, you fell down…a lot. As we grow older, though, we tend to assign judgment to mistakes.
When designing and planning your personal and professional life, pay attention to how you want your life to look and feel to you and not how you want it to look to anyone else.
Without defining to ourselves what success or failure means, we will constantly be coming up against this wall of fear. But by looking behind the mask of success or failure, we allow ourselves to do is truly connect and find out what we really truly want and like and therefore who we REALLY are.
Finding your passion isn’t as easy as finding your iPhone. There will be missteps along the way. However, the most important first step is to get clear on the direction you want to go and focus your efforts in that direction to find out the right career for you.
Every colossal question through the phases in my life have the same answer. From when I was kid being asked what I want to be when I grow up, to when I was in college trying to decide what I wanted to do, and being an adult now with no idea what the future holds. The answer is the same: “I just want to be happy.”
