Lately I have been contemplating what should I be doing with my life. I guess everyone comes to a point in time in their lives where they ask themselves some life questions.
Am I doing what I love?
Am I still passionate about what I do?
Can I see myself doing this forever?
Will this make me happy, doing it forever?
What should I do with my life?
I came across a website that asked a few thought provoking questions and I still cant answer them definitively. Does that mean I am un-inspired? Lazy? Un-ambitious?
Question 1 I have been asking myself:
When I am 80 years old, what do I want to be able to look back on my life and say "I have accomplished this or done that in my life"?
I really don't know?
- I want a family, kids
- I want to take great family vacations
- I want to own a house
- I want to buy a boat
All of these things revolve around my personal life... but when it comes to my career, I have no thoughts, no insight, as to what I would like to have said that I did for my a living.
Question 2 I have been asking myself:
If I won $10,000,000 which job would I love to have?
And my immediate response was "I wouldn't want a job" I would just want to live life.
But then thats not the point of the question. The point is supposed to be if money weren't an issue what would you love to be doing?
It got me asking myself
- What am I passionate about?
- What do I love doing?
- What am I good at?
Then the problem I keep coming across is the "but" of it all.
I would love to be a ________ BUT... I would have to go back to school, which I don't have the money for.
I would love to do _________ BUT.....
You get the point.
How can I break this barrier of excuses? Am I just procrastinating?
It poses the ultimate question:
What should I be doing with my life?
Please tell me I'm not the only one feeling this way? Has anyone else overcome barriers to be doing what they love today? How did you do it?
"It is better to live a short life full of doing things you love, than a long life of being miserable"
