Figuring out who you are is important and essential to figuring out what happiness means to you and where to find it. It’s also essential to figuring out what you want to be.
When you are young, parents, teachers, and friends may push you towards a direction or interest. Your parents may say they want you to be a doctor, lawyer, architect. Your friends may say you should join them and be international business people together, or some other adventure. You might even have your own ideas of what you want to be.
Many people who enter college and university don’t have a clear idea of what they want to be or even what they want to do with their lives. A lot of people float and coast through their schooling and education without ever really considering it for themselves. When they do, it might be their parents who put them on that path, or because they wanted to join a course with their friends.
Then people graduate, get into the work force, and start their careers. For many people, they end up experiencing burn out very quickly, and may drop out of their respective fields of work. For others, they may end up having a nagging feeling they should have done something else, or that they were meant for something else.
It’s not uncommon for people to change what they do. For many, this starts happening in mid-life where they start questioning the meaning and importance of what they are doing, and what it is they really want for themselves.
Despite all that, figuring out what we want to be is not so easy or straightforward. In the first place, we may still be trying to figure out who we want to be, and that requires some effort into understanding who we are. For example, if you’re impatient or quick to anger, maybe you want to be more patient and understanding.
A lot of work and introspection put into the question of “who am I?” is necessary to determine who we want to be. Once we have an idea of that, what we want to be becomes less of a mystery.
To get to this point where we have some notion of who we are, we do have to put some effort into self-care and introspection, on a consistent basis and not just as something you think about before you drift off to sleep. For some, you may be looking to understand yourself better so that you can help others find out who they are and what they want to be.
Join us at College of Allied Educators to learn more about yourself, what motivates you, and how you can find happiness, meaning, and success in work, love, and life.
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