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“Find yourself, find your wealth!”
Well? Who do you THINK you are? Do you KNOW who you are? What is your place in life? Do you make your own decisions? Are you truly happy with your current path? Is there something else you dream of doing? What would you be doing if you could truly choose your own path in life?
As a child I used to love the water, I loved being with my friends and playing, and I also loved to just sit and read. The water always made me feel cleansed, the water was always cool and refreshing and people knew how to respect one another. My friends were a pretty boisterous bunch! We had so much fun laughing, playing football, teasing one another, and just sharing in that in-the-moment camaraderie. I remember being excited to go to our local library to check out a book, my favourites as a child were The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit series, and various random books that my parents brought back from their travels.
Life now has gotten much more complicated! Yet, through it all, those memories and feelings still pervade my thoughts and give me a sense of who I am. Those memories, in part, answer the question: who do you think you are? They speak to my personality, my predilections and quirks as someone who is seeking to redefine his path.
The first step in getting out of your rut in life is to get to answering the question: who do you think you are? What are you all about? What defines your personality? What are your predilections and quirks? Well, just as I shared, you should take some time to write down a few memories that you had as a child in which you felt in-the-moment, completely free and unencumbered, where you were in a state of flow! What activities were you naturally drawn to? List 3 down and write out a short memory for each.
As the smile is gleaming from your face, tap into that state of flow. This is where you need to be. Within what you’ve written down you will find your dream career and path. You will eventually be able to definitively answer all of the questions in the first paragraph of this article with a resoundingly positive answer.
From my own “who do you think you are” narrative above I’ve discovered what my dream career should consist of! From those 3 memories I can say that my dream career/path should necessarily have the following three parameters:
- Travel and outdoors
- People and relationships
- Knowledge and research
If you haven’t seen it, the title Who Do You Think You Are is also the name of a television series (WDYTYA). As an armchair genealogist this show is really fun to watch. Therefore the title of this article is a double entendre. My ultimate dream career is to travel and work with others as a family history researcher! I would like to be able to start a foundation for family history research which would not only actively collect and compile genealogical information, but also to promote family history research in the United States.
So, who do you think YOU are? “Find yourself, find your wealth!”
I hope this article has benefited you! Thank you for reading this article and being a part of NOW-Power!
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