When coaching people to discover their calling, profession, or career, we often encounter the beautiful uncertainty of not knowing—and that’s perfectly okay.

It takes time to figure out what work you want to do, and there is no time limit. You have your entire life to discover your path and purpose, and hopefully do work you love, work that matters.

You can have several careers and reinvent yourself over and over again. You have career flexibility as you navigate career uncertainty.

Usually, we put the pressure on ourselves needlessly. We let resistance, societal pressure, and external voices bully us into believing we should know what we want to do, and not knowing indicates something might be wrong with us. We’re a failure—an underachiever.

It’s not true. Be kind to yourself with your self-criticism and the voices that surround you. Encourage yourself without pressure but with gentle motivation and self-empathy. Not knowing might be precisely where you are supposed to be.

One approach to an answer is to start with what you loved as a child and see where that leads you.

What are your first memories of what you wanted to be growing up? Maybe you were eight and passionately saw yourself as an artist, astronaut, teacher, ambassador, or journalist. Remember saying  – “I want to be__________.” It is not impossible pie in the sky. It is your soul speaking to you, sending you clues and messages about who you truly are and what you will become.

These choices, dreams, and early ambitions are the key to the work you are meant to do here on earth, and in coaching, we carefully unearth those buried dreams and reconstruct them with intention and profound respect for you and your possibilities.

It’s a thrilling process with science and emotion, a transformative journey where logic meets soul—where your first dreams become the blueprint for a life that truly matters for you and others.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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