What Am I Doing Here?

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Naturalmente non vedevo l'ora di conoscere il Maestro [Noel Coward] - e lo conobbi. Era il suo ultimo pranzo a Londra prima che si trascinasse a morire in Giamaica. La padrona di casa era Anne Fleming, vedova di Ian. Gli altri membri del cast erano Merle Oberon, Lady Diana Cooper, io e lui. Risi fino alle lacrime, e la pernice mi andò di traverso. (...) Mentre andavamo via mi disse: "Se accetta un piccolo consiglio a mo' di commiato, non si lasci mai intralciare da preoccupazioni artistiche". E' un consiglio che ho sempre seguito. " Since then, I’ve spent the past few weeks building a prototype collection of long reads and short takes you can expect here. Breaking some news . Coverage of Lafayette, West Lafayette and Tippecanoe County government action that’s more than meat-and-potatoes. Changes coming for schools . Drama with public officials (hello, Wabash Township) . Context behind decisions on a Purdue campus that’s growing nonstop . A look at cultural landmarks in Greater Lafayette and on campus . A Q&A or two with interesting people and how they shape this town . And just good stories, like the one about a retiring West Lafayette garbageman they call the legendary Big B.

Is it a new career in which you feel excited and energized? A relationship where you feel honored and loved? To be confident and happy with yourself? To live in a particular place or to explore the world?Okay, so you have your list of options and possibilities. Now it’s time to narrow it down and explore those options in a little more depth. Just the sheer fact that you’re asking yourself what you’re doing with your life is a step in the right direction. A mentor of mine always said that 90% of solving a problem is awareness that it exists. You know you need to do something. Mi viene da pensare che due anni dopo per la stessa malattia moriva il mio scrittore italiano preferito dell’ultimo mezzo secolo, Pier Vittorio Tondelli: e anche Tondelli passava gli ultimi mesi di letto e malattia a curare l’edizione a larga diffusione di Biglietti agli amici. Qui si ferma l’analogia, i due libri sono molto diversi, ma il parallelo mi è scattato automatico. Instead, focus on identifying what’s next. At this age, in this stage, facing your current circumstances and ideas of personal development. I’m not saying this won’t be attached to a bigger vision, but that doesn’t mean you have to have the whole plan right now. I love MLK’s quote:

One of the very first things I share with my clients is this: you don’t have to figure out what you want to do with the entire rest of your life! A fantastic way to do this is to envision your life “as if” you were in that new role/situation/relationship. Or maybe you don’t feel unhappy or lost, but you wake up and realize you want something more, new, or different. You may have accomplished many of the things you’d imagined for your life, and now you’re trying to figure out what to do next. She was trying to figure out what she was doing with her life. For her, this meant realizing she had lost her sense of self. While no one would know from the outside, she was feeling overwhelmed, lost, and unsure of herself. She was doing all the “right” things for everyone around her, but she wasn’t doing all the right things for her. If you’re asking “What am I doing with my life?” you’re clearly not happy where you are. You know you want something else. But what is that “something”? This question allows you to explore your potential options.Write everything down. Then, review what you wrote and highlight or circle what stands out or resonates the most. These are what you want to pay attention to as you move forward and think about what you’re doing next with your life.

Werner [Herzog] condensa le sue idee in un'asserzione perentoria: "Camminare è una virtù, il turismo è un peccato mortale". (...) Werner, a quel che mi dicono, era il beniamino della Eisner. E nel 1974, quando seppe che lei era in fin di vita, si mise in marcia, in mezzo al ghiaccio e alla neve, da Monaco a Parigi, convinto che in qualche modo, a forza di camminare, sarebbe riuscito a farla guarire. Quando arrivò a destinazione, Lotte Eisner si era ristabilita; e tirò avanti per altri dieci anni."

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Because I’m stopping to ask myself why do I keep feeling this way, I’m having to examine what’s going on in my life that has me so frustrated. Maybe, like Sabine, when you think you have your answer, ask yourself, “what else?” and see what comes up. I’m feeling that way now. I’m overscheduled, overwhelmed, and in need of a real vacation that I’m not gonna get. These are all real and good questions, but not if they stop you from moving forward towards a more fulfilling life [2] . If you’re feeling hesitant about taking the next step, let me give you a different way to look at it. Lines five and six make this way of looking at his own life all the clearer. He says that living in an “atmosphere of torture” does not excuse the fact that he has “tortured”. The speaker is unable to take comfort in the fact that other people have tortured as well. It doesn’t make any difference. Lines 7-14

My job as a coach and consultant is to support my clients to be happier, more successful and fulfilled. To help them get from where they are to where they want to be, uncovering obstacles along the way. This usually involves working through a process and asking powerful questions so they can discover the answers to their biggest questions – including this one. What’s Wrong With Your Life? What am I doing with my life?” As a life coach and business consultant, I hear this question – or some version of it – all the time. Those asking the question are likely facing one of a couple scenarios. In the first stanza of ‘ What I’m Doing Here’ the speaker begins by making a number of statements about what he knows, doesn’t know, and what he has done. He is comparing the state of the larger world to his own morality. For example, he says that he doesn’t “know if the world has lied”. But, he does know that he has. He goes on to say that he doesn’t “know if the world has conspired against love”. But again, he has.

What do you NOT want? While you don’t want to spend too much time in this space, it’s as important to be aware of what you don’t want as much as what you do!