Choices
What do you want?
What do you want out of life?
What do you hope to have experienced in the next few years?
"What do you want?" has got to be one of my all time favorite questions. So powerful, liberating and scary all together.
Hard to answer sometimes though, isn't it. Easy to get stuck in the status quo of daily life and play it safe without questioning.
But what is your passion? What do you crave?
Where do you go that makes you feel alive and how can you get more of that?
What do you do that makes you feel like you were meant to do just that?
How does what you get paid to do fit in that? Is there a place where all that merges?
Who makes you feel like you belong precisely wherever you happen to be?
"What do you want" implies that you get a choice in making "whatever-the-hell-you-are-passionate-about" happen.
It means that you get to pick your future.
And picking your future means that you are then responsible for it's outcome, regardless of what it all turns out to be.
But what if you're wrong? What if you change your mind one day about what you want?
What if the stars line up and don't play along or it just doesn't work out?
What if you wake up one day and where you hang your hat no longer makes you feel anything?
What do you want out of life?
What do you hope to have experienced in the next few years?
"What do you want?" has got to be one of my all time favorite questions. So powerful, liberating and scary all together.
Hard to answer sometimes though, isn't it. Easy to get stuck in the status quo of daily life and play it safe without questioning.
But what is your passion? What do you crave?
Where do you go that makes you feel alive and how can you get more of that?
What do you do that makes you feel like you were meant to do just that?
How does what you get paid to do fit in that? Is there a place where all that merges?
Who makes you feel like you belong precisely wherever you happen to be?
"What do you want" implies that you get a choice in making "whatever-the-hell-you-are-passionate-about" happen.
It means that you get to pick your future.
And picking your future means that you are then responsible for it's outcome, regardless of what it all turns out to be.
But what if you're wrong? What if you change your mind one day about what you want?
What if the stars line up and don't play along or it just doesn't work out?
What if you wake up one day and where you hang your hat no longer makes you feel anything?
This is precisely the arc I'm on now. I had a passion and followed it until it waned. I stood at the fork in the road for a long time, trying to decide what to do. Being the pragmatic type I started with "what's the worst that could happen" and worked back to "what's the best that could happen." I finally decided that nothing was a significant enough deterrent to not go through with it.
So now I have a new passion I fully embrace, and it's an exciting time. It's scary as hell when I think about leaving a relatively high-paying tech job, but that's only money. Happiness and joy are worth so much more than that.
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You always seem to have this uncanny knack to write entries that seem so appropriate and something similar to what's going around in my head.
After all the decision making I've had over the past 6 months, I'm back at those same very choices again now, but this time is on my terms and conditions. Living life to the max :o)
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This video works in tandem with your graphic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2uFH0NCMY4
It's a speech given by some billionaire guy that is basically saying "Just do it." because that's what makes you standout against people. Check it out.
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Fortunately, or unfortunately, I too am one of those perpetual "stuck at the fork in the road" types, I need to consider... Risk: my personal reputation for potential gain Care: for the person next to you Dream: free superbowl tickets Expect: live life to my absolute fullest
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