The Stranger Within
As I dive deeper into creating my curriculum and thinking about how to add value to others, I have been thinking a lot about how to help people realize that no one else can give them a solution to how to lead their life.
They must find it.
My curriculum is meant to be a tool to guide people into the art of self-discovery. A tool to help them explore topics that may or may not interest them. This exploration will help them identify the pathways in which they will find their purpose.
Self-help books can be useful in teaching practical tools that have worked for the authors or, in some cases, much larger audiences, but what they don’t share are the adaptations that others have made to the processes outlined.
I intend, instead, to help you explore various pathways that can help you in finding yourself - giving you questions and challenges along the way. I want to help streamline the exploration of oneself so they can have more guidance and insight on their journey.
The entirety of the curriculum will only resonate with you if you are a curious mind. The point is not for you to enjoy everything but to lean into what you enjoy and away from what you don’t - understanding that you may have to do some of what you don’t enjoy along the way.
Ultimately, I can lay out exactly what I have done and exactly what many significantly more successful people have done in their lifetimes and you can try to mirror us but it is unlikely that you will achieve what you want doing that.
You have to be true to yourself.
You will fail many times over in finding yourself. It will be and should be an ongoing journey that we must accept the pursuit of.
Life’s purpose is not a destination. We define it to give us direction. To let us fail forward. Along that path, the purpose may shift. We may fail backward, not knowing which direction we are going in until the failure happens but these experiences are what enable us to find ourselves along the way.
And then we change. You may feel you have a great understanding of present you, but future you is a stranger you have yet to meet. They may feel oddly familiar but they will still be a stranger to you. Just as past you likely is today.
My curriculum is to stir within people the desire to take action, accept failure, and to keep moving forward with intention.
