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On realizing your life’s leitmotif
As children of the 21st century, we might feel pressure and urgency to realize our selves: We are supposed to live our dreams, our passions, be authentic, and super successful. All at the same time. And, as kid of the 21stcentury, you might answer: “Why not? I want it all. I want it now.”
So possibly you are also searching. Searching for what you truly want in life, what is essentially yours. I have been hoping to finally get a clear answer about my true purpose for at least the last twenty years.
If you are searching, like I am, then maybe you also tried to find your answers on the all-knowing Internet. I did the 16personalities test. I filled out questionnaires to find my true values. I started surveys to discover my real strengths. I struggled to find my dream job based on my innermost interests. All the answers I found were insightful. The results calmed me down — for a while. But all the results did not reveal the guiding thread I was hoping to find.
Because, and you have probably heard this before, there is nothing to find out there. Maybe, as kitschy as it sounds, it is already in you, in the way you already live.
After even more consciousness development coaching tools, online quizzes, and diary writing, I experimented around. I developed new questions out of a tool I found on the internet (haha)…
