What do I want to do?

So if the four day week really happened, and we found ourselves with three full days a week to do what we wanted, how many of us would know what we wanted to do?

Well.... sad part is, most of us would probably be in a fix.

In fact if you look around, you’ll find a lot of folks totally dissatisfied with their jobs, knowing this is not their calling, but not knowing what is.

Again, there’s this friend struggling with that junction in life when the kids need to figure out what they want to do, and there’s no easy way.

So, how do we do it? Is it really so difficult to know what we want? How do we know what we would be happier doing? 

I think you can find indicative answers through some basic questions you ask yourself:

1) List ten things that you like doing, maybe twenty if you can
2) Where are you really in your element?
3) When you’re doing what, are you most involved and happy?
4) What can you do for a long length of time and still come out of feeling joy and exhilaration?
5) Anticipation of what excites you?
6) What are some of the things you get complimented on?
7) In other words what are some of the things you’re naturally good at?
8) Who do you look to for inspiration, be it in friends and family or in the world outside?
9) What about them inspires you; what they do or what they are?
10) If you could go intern with anybody for six months, who would it be?

Remember, these are indicative…..nevertheless, a good starting point

Next step would be to realize that what really stops you is more the feeling that you can’t do it for x y z reasons. Are they real reasons? Written in stone? Unsurpassable? 

No. Surely not.

We all have immense potential to do amazing things and find our own happiness. We fall short because of the extensive conditioning, which for some reason encourages dependence and low self esteem…..the fear of being judged, of not being good enough. Let's try and move out of that space......

                                   

And this is not just for kids, it’s for all of us. After all, you are as old as you think you are is so true.

The other day I read this of an 82 year old travel journalist who is still travelling and writing, I sadly don’t remember the name. He’s like ‘the only thing about me that’s 82 years old are my knees’. Inspiring, right?

Success is not what the world thinks of you.  It’s about you. It's you doing what you like doing most, most of the time.