Hey Soul Searcher! Im talking to you! - When I Grow Up

Hey Soul Searcher! Im talking to you! - When I Grow Up Heart 416 from 1000 Hearts Are you a professional soul searcher? You know the type someone whos gone through many hobbies, jobs, and journals on the quest to find Their Passionate Career.  Tiffany Doten  is right there with ya, and shes here to make sure you know that its not a curse in the least! Read on for some fist-pumping mantras, and bookmark this post to reread when you catch yourself thinking otherwise. Tomorrow, I say a happy goodbye to being what I call a “professional soul searcher” for the last 3 years. Throughout my soul-searching career I’ve learned to fly a plane, been to nursing school, taught group fitness, worked in sales, started my own knitting business, and dabbled in photography just to name just a few. Out of the billions (it feels) of things I tried, none them struck me or made enough dollar dollar bills as being something I wanted to do “when I grow up”. None of those things were truly worth getting out of bed in the morning for me. I can’t begin to explain how FRUSTRATING that lifestyle was to me, bouncing around the world with no purpose other than to FIND a purpose; or how embarrassed I became while approaching my late 20’s with what at the time felt like nothing to say for myself. I felt as though I haven’t followed a single thing through to completion and hated telling people what I do. Oh how a little hindsight changes everything! With that hindsight I’m going to share something with you that I wish someone would have shared with me, or shared with me in a way that would have gotten through my thick (VERY thick) skull: It’s OK to be a soul searcher! It’s OK to be a soul searcher! It’s OK to be a soul searcher! IT’S OK TO BE A SOUL SEARCHER!!!!!! Do you hear what I’m telling to you? It’s really important to know this; it will change the entire way you look at searching for your “grown up” job and the way you feel about yourself. There is NO shame in refusing to live an ordinary life. There is NO shame with refusing to do something you don’t absolutely love with every ounce of you. There is NO shame in refusing to work somewhere just so you can say you have a J-O-B. There IS substance to testing the waters and trying things out. How the heck else is someone supposed to know if they like something they’ve never done before? With that I want to encourage you to embrace your soul-searching journey unlike I did. I want to encourage you to be proud of yourself for not settling for the mundane, crapfest lifestyle that the world wants you to subscribe to. Love yourself enough to know that you deserve the job of your dreams even if you don’t find it until you’re 99 ½ years old. At the end of the day â€" no matter what anyone else thinks â€" you know you’re on the path to giving yourself your wildest dreams; a passion filled, rewarding life. You deserve it! Tiffany Doten â€" knitting junkie, fitness enthusiast, photog, and passionate life liver! Unusual combination, but who’d have it any other way? She currently lives in the hot state of Alabama with her Coastie hubbie and 2 pups while going to school for massage therapy.