Tell me about yourself.

[resonant]

I'm suddenly struck with the desire to know how other people do the things that matter most to them, how they find and follow their passions.

How do you decide where your heart is? How do you carve out time and energy to pursue it?

Are you on a new road or one you've been following for a long time? What have you learned that could help others? What false starts have you made, what poor judgments? What have you compromised, and what do those compromises look like to you now?

Comments

Re: I had some more thoughts....

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

It's NEVER too late to change your life and do what you want to do.

This is so true, and it's really amazing to me how hard it is to get out of the rut and change your life, especially if it doesn't suck. In my case, back in the mid-1990s I had a well-paying, moderately interesting, undemanding, but not particularly exciting job - as did my husband, although his was much more demanding - in a great place to live, with a really cool house. In 1999 we quit our jobs, sold our house and everything in it, bought a sailboat, and went cruising around the Caribbean for over three years. Taking that leap was psychologically hard, but I've never regretted it.

And now it's a lot easier for me to take leaps, to change my life. Right now my stumbling block is your #1 - I have only vague ideas of what I want to do. Ironically, I have the time and money to pursue my passions - but I'm just wandering around aimlessly. Saying "oh, I want to write!" doesn't help me much while staring at a blank Word screen!

Re: I had some more thoughts....

[myalexandria.livejournal.com]

...wow, do you still have the sailboat? want to invite me out? :)

That sounds *amazing*.

I think it's been very true for me, that once I took one big leap and it turned out to be ok, other potential big leaps just don't fill me with the same anxiety. I'm like, eh, you know what, it'll be fine, whatever happens.