“What Do You Want To Do With Your Life?”
I have a confession to make. I’m a self-help book junkie.
I love a good self-help book. Most of them are useless to the vast majority of people, but a well-written one always fascinates me regardless of whether the problem it’s addressing is one that I have or not. But when you find one of the tiny percentage of them that’s useful specifically to you, it’s like finding gold in your back yard.
When I read about a free self-help e-book called “What Do You Want To Do With Your Life?” (via LifeHacker), I checked it out. It’s similar to others that I’ve read, but since it’s free, it gives me something to recommend to people that’s a little easier to get than my three favorites.
I haven’t finished it yet, but from what I’ve read so far, it looks like a good place to begin answering the most important practical question you’ll ever find.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I’ve read some interesting self-help books, mostly on the subject of being happy. Our number one problem is really being truly happy, solve that and the rest falls into place.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Read The Keys to Happiness, and Why We Don’t Use Them. It’s a short article, but it summarizes many of the best paths to happiness.
August 17th, 2008 at 12:11 am
I already knew some of that stuff, it’s probably why I’m not a very unhappy person in general. I do wish I made more of my life goals though. I’m still sort of stuck in a rut vocational-wise. I had an opportunity to move to Phoenix Arizona after a sysadmin job though, but I turned it down. I only had the possibility for an interview, and couldn’t really afford the transportation from here (east coast) to there for an entry-level sysadmin job weakly promised in a chat room.
Hopefully something will come up locally, it’s hard when everyone requires either a degree, on-call 7 days a week, or both. Maybe I should go back to school, I do have a strong possibility of qualifying for a 100% grant covering all my tuition at the moment, assuming that they won’t care anymore about what I did in college 15 years ago, but I did so horrible at college last time, speaking of that, that I’m reluctant to try again.
August 17th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Well, if you don’t like your situation now, you need to do something to change it. Just sitting on your tail moaning about it isn’t going to change anything.