You Don't It All Figured Out, and That's OK!
Nov 29, 2023I was reading an article about a rise in social anxiety and part of the problem was the feeling that everything has to be monetized and we have to have our lives all figured out…
And yet, here I am about to reach the half century mark and realizing I do not have it figured out and probably never will…
When I was starting my career I thought I had a plan, a step by step career trajectory that brought me fulfillment and lots of money and an early retirement…
But things didn’t go as planned…
Things I thought I wanted to do changed…
Things I thought were important weren’t…
Things that I didn’t expect to matter, did and brought me more fulfillment than the prestige I thought was the answer…
In this day of rise and grind culture it’s easy to get caught up in the false narrative that everyone else has their shit together except you…
Once you realize that you don’t have to have it all figured out, that journey is the real ride, not the destination, you can begin to relax a little, take the pressure off of chasing unrealistic expectations and start creating the life you were meant to.
PS…this in no way excuses you from choosing to do hard things, that is where the real growth occurs but you don’t have to bang your head against a wall just because that’s hard too!
