Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities

Something I talk about in my second book, Start Where You Are, is finding your button. What is the one thing that turns you on so much that the sun can’t come up soon enough in the morning because you want to go do your thing,

The reality is, you find the path by starting to walk the path.

Visit organizations that give you insights into the field you’re interested in. Volunteer to spend time in a place where the choice you’re interested in is being played out. Shadow someone who is doing what you think you might want to do. Then record your reactions to these investigations in your journal.

You accept the unknown. You tell yourself, “You don’t know if you don’t go.” And then you go.

Here’s an easy way to begin your Possibilities Journal by starting where you are. On the first page, write down your name. Write down the date. Write down your location. It can be where you’re sitting, or it can be where you’re living. But locate yourself for yourself. Write down something about what you’re doing. How do you spend your time now? Wh

The old story was populated by such themes as “the golden years,” “life of leisure,” a life without the pressure of time clocks or the demands of work.

Sounding Board

You have inner kill when you’ve stopped growing, when you’ve given up on yourself, or when you find yourself always taking the easy, safe way. Like most conditions, inner kill has a set of recognizable symptoms that let you diagnose it in yourself or someone you know: a tendency to avoid decisions; a tendency to daydream about early retirement; con

“inner kill”—the condition of dying without knowing it.