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Learn What You Excel At and ‘Find Your Thing’
Curious about what makes you unique? Having trouble choosing a career or a major? Not sure how to succeed at the game of life?
It can be tough making sense of life and the world as it exists today. Even more so if you feel the pressure of trying to figure out the secrets of life or what you want to* be when you grow up.
Trying to balance school, homework, fitting in, being cool, making friends and keeping your parents from flipping out .. can be a hard day's work. Add to that trying to discover who you are, what your thing is in life, and where you belong ... and you are into working a double shift. And more often than not, trying to figure all this stuff out on your own.
To help, I offer ideas and insights that will give you ideas for how to work through some of the more challenging issues ...
Figuring Out Who You Are
Believe it or not, the years you spend growing up are the ones that give you the most time to figure out who you are and who you want to be.
Answering the Big Questions of Life
Who Am I?
Why Am I Here?
What Makes Me Unique?
What Inspires Me?Finding YOur* Thing In Life
To figure out the life you want, you want to start with understanding and choosing the right goal for your journey through life.
Then it is time to start looking at what you love to do and excel at ... to define the kind of life you would be thrilled to actually life ... not just dream about.
Find Your Bliss
Identify Your Life path
Discover Your Life Way
Discover Your Life Calling
Find A Purpose in Life
Describe The Life You Want
Make Your Dreams Come True
Picking A School & Major
And once you pick a school and a career path, you are well on your way to preparing for the life you really want to live. But if you wait and try to find your thing in school, see why that rarely works.
Why Start Now ...
If you are one of the lucky people who have always known who you wanted to become .. then most of these ideas will just help you get there faster. But if you are among the 95% who need help figuring it all out ... starting now is a great step to take.
Trying to figure this stuff out later in life can be challenging. It can be very hard to change your life and profession later on. Especially once you are married, have a few kids and a mortgage payment. Changing your career midstream can mean taking a pay cut, going back to school, and having to learn a new industry from the ground up ... all over again.
To avoid all that hassle and heartache (just look around at all the adults who feel stuck and are angry about it) it makes sense to take the time and figure out who you are and what you want your life to be before you start making major life decisions ... like a college major and where to go to school.
So whether you are still in high school, going to college or thinking about going back to school – these ideas are for you ...
