If you’re stuck spinning your wheels and feeling like “I have no idea what to do with my life,” know that you’re not alone. In fact, almost 60% of 25 – 33 year-olds have felt unsure what to do next in their life or career at one point or another. And I was feeling that way at one point myself. But through extensive research, reading, and reflection, I was able to...
Having a clear vision for the life that you want to build can provide an incredibly amount of clarity. Knowing who you want to be and where you want to go makes every decision in your life that much easier because you know the path that you’re pursuing. And it enables you to live with intentionality and purpose, which creates a rich and fulfilling existence. Without a clear vision for the...
I believe journaling to be one of the most helpful methods for organizing our thoughts. And sorting through all that’s happening in our minds can be a more daunting task than you might expect. As humans, we form thoughts at 1,000 – 3,000 words per minute. Nor surprisingly, that ends up being an exceptional amount of noise to process. For me, I’ve found journaling to be...
You’re likely familiar with the term mission statement from the corporate environment. And, frankly, the corporate world hasn’t given mission statements a great reputation. These days, the general perception of a mission statement is that’s it’s jargon used in company kickoffs that doesn’t actually drive behavior. And while that may be true, I actually find the...
As we search for our best fit work, many of us get stuck in the planning and analysis phase. We research a thousand possible career paths online, take personality tests, and all of the awesome stuff that our connections are doing on social media. But there’s nothing that seems like the perfect fit for us. So we continue in the planning, research, and analysis phase, until it becomes...
One of my favorite methods to helping establish a path for your life is writing a future biography. What is a future biography? Basically, it’s a process of reflecting on what you imagine your ideal future to be, and then writing about what that would look like and how it would feel to get there. I find this exercise to be incredibly helpful because as people, we form thoughts at 1,000...
One of the most ubiquitous pieces of career advice these days is to follow your passion. We hear it so often that many of us have just internalized that it’s a good idea to work on what we’re passionate about. But is that really the case? Should you really work on what you’re passionate about? Well, it turns out that it’s hotly debated. And the most common argument...
A common struggle that I hear from people that are trying to find their best fit work is that they don’t know what they really love doing. They are frustrated that they lack passion. And in many cases feel like the things they enjoy aren’t good uses of time, or at least can’t be applied to any sort of work context. Those types of feelings often are expressed from folks that...
Ultimately, we are all want to find meaningful and fulfilling work in our lives. The question is what does that look like for us. And the Japanese concept of Ikigai provides a fantastic framework to helping you discover your own best fit work. Throughout this post, I’m going to introduce the concept of Ikigai, discuss what it means, and then dive into how it can be used to help you find...
