You’re not happy doing what you’ve always done. It has not brought the satisfaction you’d like to feel into your life and you almost fill like you’ve missed life completely. You may, like me, need to continue earning so you can maintain or even improve your lifestyle but to do what I’ve been doing for another 10 – 15 years, I really don’t think so. So we ask ourselves, what now?
What can I do? What’s available to do for someone with my skills, or lack of today skills? Can I acquire new skills? How long will that take? How can I figure out what to do with myself?
If you’re over fifty or like me over sixty and you want more out of life, these are questions you will find yourself asking, so how do you find the answers? Here’s an idea that may help.
A video by Evan Carmichael, the author of Believe, had three points on the video that addresses this very issue. I find these three points the very bases of what I was searching for to help me have clarity on this subject of finding my way, see if the could help you. Here they are;
Explore, Follow the Flow and Pivot.
Explore, look into ideas and see what the possibilities could be. With communication so easy due to the internet, do some research, the possibilities are endless. Be open-minded and see what might inspire you. Can you see a solution or an answer to something that you could provide? Maybe a service or a product, a line of products or simply answers to others question that you could provide?
Follow the Flow; Give things a try, see how it feels. I would add, it will feel a little awkward at first, after all, it’s new to us. Expand how you see it, there may be more than one avenue to explore, multiple approaches and many ways to serve using the same idea.
Pivot; If it just doesn’t feel right, pivot, don’t keep going down a path that’s not made for you.
Find your “what now.”
