Anna Sabino - Your Creative Career: Turn Your Passion into a Fulfilling and Financially Rewarding Lifestyle

Dont save this book. Dont worry about keeping the pages pristine. This book is your notebook, journal of thoughts, and helpful tool that will bring you closer to answer the What should I do with my life? question. You may be at a different stage of the What should I do with my life? discovery. Maybe you already know, but you just need to make the path clearer. Maybe you know you dont like where you are, but dont know what youd like the change to be. Im hoping to provide you with inspiration. Youll find thought-provoking questions here. Treat each one like a dot. These dots, in addition to your observations and reflections, will one day make up a picture, your dream lifestyle picture.

Many people will try to design your lifestyle picture with you, hand you the puzzle pieces, tell you where they should go. Some may even say Youll never complete this picture. Its 1,000 puzzle pieces. Do you know how long it would take you to finish?

These are the voices you may hear throughout your journey.

Maybe youve determined that youre not ready to call yourself a writer, an actor, or a business owner because you know you dont deserve it and because there are others out there better than you. You add aspiring in front of your dream profession and start wearing this badge because you are not ready to shed your insecurity. You may be losing to those who, regardless of their skills and experience, decided to already wear the badge of what they want to become. They live their dreams.

This is what lifestyle design is all abouttrying a dream like a pair of jeans, because who knows if the dream is really our dream without trying it and living it. Maybe were dreaming the wrong dream and wasting our time and efforts pursuing the wrong path. Those who try living their dream have time to pivot, change direction, and refocus on what really fulfills them. They carefully design their lives regardless of social pressures and other constraints. There is no thinking outside the box for them; they dont have any boxesperiod. They set their own rules, experiment, and end up truly living their dream. They dont think about the long discovery process. They enjoy the steps because they know theyre on the path to greatness. They dont care how the world defines adequacy. They are aware of what their dream is and theyre building it by living it now, regardless if they feel ready. They manifest and wobble on their dream path, asking for guidance. One day when they can finally stand on their own, everyone thinks that they woke up like that.

Others, who are still in their aspiring stage, blame the economy or lack of innate talent, finally deciding that their dream is not actually their dream. This gives them peace of mind and they come to terms with passively coasting in their status quo, living by default. Their current situation is certain, and they dont need to go through the temporary discomfort of trying something new. They change their focus to enjoying their life outside work and count the years until retirement. They realize that there are those whose lives are way worse than theirs, and thinking about that makes them come to terms with what they have, no matter the level of dissatisfaction.

To embrace a confident attitude, we need to stop using excuses. Economic conditions are always going to be challenging, yet there are millions who thrive no matter what. Its widely proven that grit and consistency is far more important than talent. We dont need to be born with anythingwe can become; we can be. Its a matter of announcing it to the world and ourselves.