What Do You Want To Do For The Rest Of Your Life?

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This question sounds simple, yet is so difficult for a lot of you to answer. Am I kidding myself? It is even still very difficult to answer for myself! I have at this very moment not a clue what exactly it is that I want to do for the rest of my life.

I am like 38 years old and have had some jobs here and there. I've moved countries, I have achieved a bunch of stuff. I have studied two different studies, IT and marketing. I have been at WA for over 2 years now and done most of the course material (not all of bootcamp is completed and I barely follow with on all the other content that is being created). I married a beautiful wife, I got a great car, a nice house, 5 kitties and so on.

But...

I haven't (entirely) figured myself out, I don't know half the time who I really am as a person and I haven't got the job that I love or the insane "passive income" with my online business(es). Passive income, by the way, does not exist, but that is for another time.

WA: Create A Business Around Your Passion

Here on WA we learn that we should follow a passion, a hobby or something similar of interest to write about and build our business around. I've done so too.


I started with something that at the time was something very real for me. Learning how to relax. I felt stressed by a lot of stuff, both work life and life itself. I started a site (stressrelieve .net) and felt overburdened by the need to create content for it not very long after. It didn't feel like something that fitted me. It didn't come natural and I was only half-arsed interested in the matter. Yes, the research made me realise how to relax and when I felt relaxed, I didn't feel like putting out the content.

Was it the right niche? Probably not. It didn't quite feel like I could just dream the content up for it.


Up was the next thing, goingrenewable .com a site about well renewable energy, saving the environment, electrical cars, solar panels, wind energy, all the do-it-self stuff, you name it. I figured even quicker here that this wasn't either a thing I am really really burning for. Sure, I got an electric car and yes we had plans to put solar on our roof (we got all that sorted too by now), but I didn't feel to tell the world about it. It wasn't my burning passion, just a sidething that would perhaps prove to be useful or cost-saving or better for own health.


After followed a couple of things. I started a bootcamp site (ownonlineboss .com) and I started following some more video material from WA and from others around the web and figured I should get some "easy" ranking sorted with other domains that were way more specific.

With bakingbreadrecipes .com (I expired the domain recently) I was going to create a lot of valueable recipes and review bread baking machines and that sort of stuff. It never happened however and after 2 years or so I now let the domain expire.

With digitalgamecode .com I hoped to create a website with digital games and gamecards as promo and just write reviews of the games and stuff. The domain still is in my posession, but I haven't done anything with it.

Instantprintcameras .com is a site about the new version of Polaroid camera's that are seeing popularity. Still haven't created a single review on that site. There are some other domains in my possession that are either my wife's projects or have been repurposed by now. Some other domains are still in my registrar listed for later purposes.

I also received a complete licensed concept of a system that is active in NL that I can deploy on the Scandinavian market. After about a year of half-arsed working on it, I have now the past two weeks worked on it full-time and it might bring something for me, but I am not sure if it is my burning passion. It certainly can be my prove of concept or a little of a side-hustle.

I even started building a blog that is currently the blog with the most content. It was my wife, who at the time figured that I was seriously stuck, said that I should start this site. cathabits .net is well, more likely our baby, not exactly my burning passion. We do love cats, we have 5 of our own and had many projects as fosterparents for different cats from the cat protection locally. The blog has a lot of content. I have stopped producing content for it some 5 months back, but might now just pick it up again.

We haven't been entirely standing still with it. We took it to Twitch and started a podcast and are also still active in social media. I've also been busy with repurposing content and fixing up existing content.

What Is Your Passion?

Do I really burn for cats or their well-being? I do care about them yes, especially my own. Do I make it my passion to make everyone knowledgeable about them? Perhaps a bit, but not as a passionate person but as a teacher.

This is the one thing I have figured so far about myself. I love to teach people stuff. STUFF. It doesn't have to be cats, or how to make money online or solar panels or why people should have an electric car, or how they should stress down (or bake bread, buy shit etc).

My most recent take on it is that I need to coach, teach, explain, help others in doing what passion they want to live, what dreams they want to make come true. That is what I will do here at WA as well as on one of my existing domains. I got one existing domain that goes by my own full name. The same full name that I recently changed on this page, but that won't matter.

I also plan to document my journey of understanding and finding myself through blogging, vlogging and social media.

Did you make your passion, your business? Or are you still struggling with finding your number 1 thing you want to do for the rest of YOUR life?

Please elaborate below!

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Thanks for sharing your struggle Steven. I'm still struggling. This post helps and definitely adds juice to my car.

Cheers

Hi Steven, I did not yet make my passion into my website, but hope to do something like that when i get the opportunity, ie more hours in the day or weeks in the year:-) Alan

ahh the time aspect. Yeah I know that one.

Well the only advice I can give you there is: if you find out that you are sitting way too long somewhere, such as in front of the TV, behind the PC or on the mobile phone trying to go through your stream on social media unproductively, there is a chance there is some time for that passion instead of those activities.

Life is short but in the same time it is also long. Don't wait until the end of life to do something with your passion - start today!

Hi Steven, this is a simple yet profound question in life.

Over the years I have similar experiences, finding something I am passionate about, and trying to get into it either by taking a job or making a business out of it. Later finding out I got burned out due to ongoing pressure and not being able to balance work and life etc. Even after joining WA, I sometimes get stuck and lose my momentum.

Recently I've been reading a book named Hack the Entrepreneur by Jon Nastor, in which some of the entrepreneur interviewees mentioned: You DON'T have to turn your passion into a business, you can simply be passionate about business itself and go into any businesses that bring you the life style you want, or the life style that make you feel happy.

I am also following some YouTube channels about self improvement, meditation, and work-life balance. One of the speakers named Dandapani mentioned NOT to pursue happiness, instead pursue a life style in which happiness comes as a byproduct.

That makes a lot of sense to me as I have a more visualized end goal - a life style (vs happiness itself not being able to visualize), and I'm not limiting myself in how I am getting there (I don't have to limit myself in a specific niche that might not be able to give me the life style that I want).

Thank you.

Hugh

This perhaps simple question is still one not all that simple, as nobody here has figured out the answer to it.

I just have been watching the Dandapani you mentioned.
I agree that it is the lifestyle we are after, not really the happiness, although that is perhaps how we describe stuff "wrongly" in our minds and towards others.

I visualize everything and with coaching I visualize everything I struggle with. Currently I am standing inside a park at the biggest roundabout in the world with many many roads branching out. In the middle of the roundabout park is a tower. A proper watchtower that lets me watch over the forest, over the tops of mountains and I can see a long distance of all the directions, all the roads of the crossing.

Unfortunately we still need to find the definition of the word of lifestyle. Whether we call it happiness, lifestyle, purpose, passion or niche.

Teaching and Learning, are things I will do until I die. It comes down to the big question, that is asked, in the Niche Lesson...
"How do you want to help people?"
This question, opened up many possibilities!
Much, better motivator than, "How much money do you want to make?"
Hope you find your. "Rest of your life"!
I'm still, looking, and enjoying the adventure, at 67!
Best!
Barb

Thank you so much Barb,

I've struggled a lot since I wrote this post. I still haven't entirely figured it out yet, but I think I am now more or less like you state here, busy with figuring out
- what I have to offer that I can help people with.
- under which name I want to do this.
as a matter of fact, I will write a post about this now and link it here. (several minutes later lol....) Tomorrow comes even more btw.

Steven

Oh Man! I hear you. I see a repeat pattern going on here. Yes you are stuck as I was. Floundering around trying to find a path that you are not truly passionate about often ends. My take is, it is not what you really want to be doing. Forgive me for being blunt, I think I can help you.

You mentioned you don’t really know who you are. A common malady. I hear you calling out for help to discover who you are. Am I right? If so, I strongly suggest you take the journey to personal discovery. This is what I did and I am still doing. My goal is to truly find true happiness. I am extremely passionate about this. I have a powerful wanting to help others find happiness. It seems we all blunder along, not knowing who we really are and consequently lead mediocre lives. I wasted OVER half my life doing just that. Does this stir you?

My site is my journey, in fact my personal diary, to self discovery and finding happiness. It isn’t comfortable or easy putting my vulnerability in the public arena, however if it helps one person I will be chuffed. My journey has led me to publishing a book on my journey. I am At the beginning of putting the book together. I am just following my path now.

Documenting your personal development discovery journey is, I believe, exactly what you are being called to do. Wonder if you feel passionate about finding out who you really are?

I don’t mean documenting your journey about your skills learned, different job successes you have had and the how to’s I would love to know who you really are and MEET the real you.

If I have hit the nail on the head, (maybe, maybe not) please feel free to visit my site and perhaps get a feel for what I am on about.

If it interests you BE BRAVE, BE COURAGEOUS, TAKE THE FIRST STEP. My life is now meaningful, purposeful and a helleva lot Happier.

Sorry if I have got up on my soapbox. My passion gets carried away sometimes. Wishing you the very best.

Cheers and heartfelt greetings. AJ

hellotohappierdays.com

Steven,

I just retired from working for the second time. While I enjoyed the job most of the time, I was ready to retire. It was not something that a child would say they want to do when they grew up.

I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up, if I ever do. But I know one thing. I want to work at home with my puppies nearby. I have three niches that I am currently working on, so it's all good. I've also got a few ideas that I'm currently simmering on the back burner for the future.

Ellen

You have written a very thoughtful post here.

Even at our ages, we are still re-inventing ourselves as we evolve with learning to work on the internet.

Because we have been around a long time :D it was easy to find things we are passionate about. What we are trying not to do is take on too much all at once because the learning curve is pretty steep.

We did start off with one site that we made too broad, even though we have a lot of knowledge and experience with it, so we are coming back to that and know what to do next time.
Currently, have a WA Bootcamp site and planning our next one.

Documenting your personal journey is a good idea and would be very interesting for others to read.

Best of luck!

Colette and Philip

I love this. Well thought out, and written from passion. Great article!

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