let's talk ... motivation

Courtney Goss
Mar 16, 2017
2 min read

The past couple of weeks have been a bit tough. I've felt lost and off and just really unmotivated in life.

So I finished study a year ago, and I've been working in the career that I thought I was so passionate about and loved and had goals for but now I'm not so sure and I feel so just lost. Like something that I was passionate about I'm kind of apathetic towards now and it's confusing, I feel guilty because I feel like I've wasted time studying something for no reason and I feel lost because I'm not so sure about what I actually do want to do in life.

I have a rough idea, I am passionate about health and fitness and want to do something in that area but I actually don't know what exactly. Do I want to be a personal trainer? Do I want to be a nutritionist or dietitian? Do I want to be a food product developer or individual business owner and create healthy food for people? I have no clue! And through this little rut I'm in, I have figured something out: it's OK to not know what you want to do! People change careers and passions so many times in their lives and figuring out that I don't actually want to pursue something doesn't make me a failure, I'm still tryna figure myself out and what I want to do in life, and you know what, I'm young! I have all the tine in the world to figure out what it is I want to do! I'mm allowed to change my mind, I am a passionate and strong willed person, I can study a million different things until I find something that sticks if I really want to.

The only person that matters in this situation is you, in this case you can be selfish and try and find the glass slipper that fits. And you know what, it's scary, for once in my life I have no idea what career I want, I don't know what I want to achieve in life, I have no idea what my endgame is, but that's life! Shit happens, and I'm just gonna go with the flow and figure things out because that's all I can do really, and that's totally fine. It might be nice and a bit refreshing actually, it might help me live in the moment, I'll be less caught up with my future and worrying about not being at the stage in life that I want to be. At least, theoretically.

We all have all the time in the world to figure ourselves out and find what makes our souls happy, so don't worry about whether or not you're gonna be a chef or a doctor or a teacher, it's OK, you'll figure it out.