For Those Who Feel Lost
I had a hard time deciding the last word of the title. Not because it was challenging but because I wanted it to accurately represent what I was trying to say. Landing on “lost” seems a bit cliche but it’s the best representation. The other words I was close to using where the following:
Adrift: This word implies a feeling of being unmoored and floating without a destination.
Uncertain: This emphasizes the lack of clarity about their future goals or path.
Undecided: This focuses on the difficulty they're having making a decision about what to do next.
Unfulfilled: This suggests they feel a lack of purpose or satisfaction with their current direction.
A lot of these words fit but lost seems to encompass all of the above. This feeling is exactly how I have felt in the past. It’s how I’ve felt in the recent past and I imagine it’s a feeling that will revisit me in the future.
It’s an odd feeling when you don’t know exactly where you want to take your life. For as long as I can remember I have always had the dream to influence and impact peoples lives to live a fuller lifestyle. Essentially to embrace the beauty of the struggle and the opportunity through making your life you’re own through conscious action. So, for the most part, I knew what I wanted to do. At that time I lacked the discipline to actually execute but that’s a different story. While my overall dream hasn’t changed the path to achieve it became muddled. I wasn’t sure how I wanted to get there. What was I passionate about? What did I enjoy doing? What made me excited when doing it? Was there anything I lost track of time doing? It became harder and harder to answer these questions the older and more responsibility I got.
If you take the time to answer the questions I rattled off above does anything stand out to you? Maybe that is the thing you should be pursuing? For me I noticed a trend in my behavior. I would always go back to making video. This was after two years of film school that I took. I think I returned to making video 3-4 times. That’s significantly more than any other thing I’ve attempted. With that observation I thought about the type of lifestyle I desired. Not from my current position but as if I had it already. Some of you have heard of these visualization strategies. That’s essentially all I did. I pictured myself living the life I wanted. What was my ideal day? What was an ideal week like? How did the future self make decisions? How did my future self approach problems? How did he treat others? What were his priorities? Answering those quesitons really helped me narrow down the types of jobs that aligned with my desired lifestyle.
I enjoy telling stories and extracting lessons from them for people to use and learn from. I wanted to have a big impact on the world. I wanted to set my own schedule and make more than the national average for income (significantly more). I wanted to be creative and have my voice heard (I believe what I have to say is worth hearing). I wanted to have time with my family. I wanted to be able to help others.
All those wanted is what landed me on being an entrepreneur and more specifically start creating my personal brand through content creation. I am merely documenting my life as I grow through it, sharing lessons, and forging a life that makes me happy while trying to help others.
