Let’s look at this question.
What are you really asking?
What “SHOULD” I do with my life?
or
What “do I WANT” to do with my life?
These 2 questions are related, but you want to be aware of the fact that there are 2 distinct and related questions.
Most people ask “what should I do with my life” because they want someone to come along and tell them what it is they should be doing with their lives.
They either do not have a clear idea of how they can uniquely contribute, or they are not sure of the fuzzy idea that they hold in their minds. Or, maybe they have an idea, but they are afraid to admit what this idea is, usually because they are afraid that other people will discourage them or outright discount the idea as valid and viable.
Most people ask “what do I want to do with my life” because they have the option to choose.
The world is their playground, and their biggest task is to decide where they want to start contributing. Very few people ask this question. Most people feel that they do not have a choice to ask.
When you ask “what should I do with my life”, you are really asking that eternal question, “why am I here”, and more specifically, “why does it MATTER that I am here at all?”
I hate asking myself this question, because every time I have asked this question, I come up with a different answer, depending on the stage of my life. And I find that no matter how much I work to get to the answer, that answer never feels 100% accurate.
Now that I am much older, and have spent the last 15 years continually asking myself this question, I discovered that I am probably never going to get THE answer, because there is NO ONE answer.
Instead, each answer that I get from asking the same question works like a mosaic tile in the bigger picture of my life. Each tile looks slightly different than the other, yet each tile is equally important to making a whole picture that is the output from my life.
