You're trying to visualize the life you want in the future but you just can't see clearly. Here are several ideas to consider.

In her essay "The Crossroads of Should and Must", Elle Luna tells the story of two life paths — Should and Must, and encourages us to consider Must after getting too used to choosing Should.

Several exercises helped me start to define more clearly what I want my life to look like when I’m free of limiting beliefs and social expectations.

When you sit by the computer each morning, which feeling is most common: Expansion or contraction? Hope or fear? Excitement or dread? Ease or stress?

Hunter Thompson: “… we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES… we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal.”

An idea that resonated as soon as I heard it - but I’m still working to fully internalize - is that there are two parallel philosophies by which to live your life: Trust and fear.

Somewhere between success and failure is the worst place to be. You can just keep going without much reflection. A major failure makes you think, course-correct, but middling success is sustainable.

The pandemic made a lot of people quit their jobs. I did this well before the pandemic and discovered that quitting was so much more about changing my mindset than about changing my career.