Millions of teenagers and older are struggling with this. Here is Eleanor Roosevelt’s advice:
People still ask me frequently how I planned my career and what over-all objective I had in mind. Actually I never planned a career, and what basic objective I had, for many years, was to grasp every opportunity to live and experience life as deeply, as fully, and as widely as I possibly could. It seemed to me stupid to have the gift of life and not use it to the utmost of one’s ability. . . . I had really only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and self-discipline. . . . If you are interested, things come to you, they seem to gravitate your way without your lifting your hand.
(Quoted from page 269 of The Life of the Creative Spirit, by H. Charles Romesburg. Xlibris, 2001.)
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