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I don’t know what I want to do with my life: A step-by-step guide to understanding your “Self.”

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If you feel out of life and the world because you just can’t fit in, find your place, or settle down, welcome to my blog because I feel your pain; I have been there and found the way out, so I can share my road to the exit from that soul-sucking feeling, so stay with me. My story is that I couldn’t figure out what to do with my life: I was paralyzed and stuck in the same inaction or motion loop, a crazy confusing space for over a decade.

I remember when I went to the psychologist exhausted after eight years of feeling embarrassed about myself and my place in life, and he greeted me and asked me: Can you tell me who you are and what you do in life?

I started sadly laughing in tears because had I known the answers, I wouldn’t have been there; I was there to figure out who I am and what I want to do with my life finally. I was desperate to find any guidelines on how to live my life, and it took me many years to understand that:

The instruction of life

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There is no instruction or manual on living your lifewhich is the most perfect and imperfect thing about life. So, every single person has to figure this out for himself.

For some people, it is super easy to know who they are and what they want; for example, they decide at the age of six that they want to be a sportsman or a painter, or a video game designer, and that’s it, they take some courses, attend workshops, grow up in their environment, giving life to their goals and turning out to be excellent professionals with early success. 

Well done, but this article is not for them; this is for the second group of people, the late bloomers, who can’t figure out what they want for their life, sometimes for half a lifetime or even more. Or you enjoyed doing a thing, had success, and now you wish to change your course and direction and don’t know where to go. 

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How to finally focus on your “SELF”, who missed you so much!  

Every heart needs its own love the most. 

Cassandra Clare

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How to focus on yourself?

If this is a question you just asked, congratulations, you are exactly where you need to be. Welcome back! Thank yourself for bringing you to this all-destructive and all-constructive question because this is the start of your real relationship with your “Inner Self,” who desperately needs your love, focus, and attention.

Before reading the actual and practical essential tips for self-focusing, let’s build your inner state and the right mindset on moving on.  Please, first answer these questions sincerely:

Are you afraid of self-focused life? 

Is there a resistance voice right there named Selfishness alert? I can feel the voice: most people think they are egocentric if they focus on themselves. Please forget that limiting and untrue idea and replace it with this: “If you want to give your attention and focus to your loved ones, you must give it to yourself first.” Please, remember that you can’t pour from an empty cup. Your cup has to be full; you have to fill your life to give your overflowing energy and love. Avoid draining yourself to losing connection with your “Self.”

If you redirect your focus, are you afraid of being unloved or loved less? 

This recent study shows that we have a fundamental human need for social acceptance as a survival mechanism. The rejection activates the brain parts responsible for physical pain. However, even though it may be painful, never let that fear misguide you. You do not have to burn yourself out to be accepted.

You deserve the space and the fulfillment of your own needs.

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