In Search of Your Dream: 5 Practical Methods to Find Your Own Business

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

A guest article by Alina Rodina, PR manager and blogger, about how to find your dream and what to do in life to get goosebumps.

Even my cat Zina (who, by the way, daily adheres to this postulate, namely: eats, sleeps and eats again), knows that you need to do what you like in life, and not what you have to do. But, unlike cats, people, thank God, have a much wider range of self-realization. Therefore, many people have a question: in what business to prove themselves? Why do I have a soul, are my hands and wriggle herds of goosebumps? How to find your dream business? And it’s your own, otherwise, it happens, and you don’t understand, whether you want it yourself, or whether this society and modern trends are imposing on you another interest.

What I just didn’t do in search of myself! Yoga, dancing, basketball, modeling agency, three days of karate (not enough for more), swimming, oil painting, writing poetry, theater and acting courses, vocals …

The list could go on and on. But the voice of society says: it is not good to be sprayed! Well, how can we be here?

Having slowed down Google on the query "I want to find my dream", I received a lot of information, tests and techniques. In this article, I have collected five best methods that at one time helped me and, I hope, will help you understand the topic of your destiny. They all complement each other, so it will be much more effective if you go through and take the time to each of them. So let's go.

Method # 1: Make a Wish List

Everything here is extremely simple: we take a notebook and make a list of our desires and wishes (for the near future and global ones). The main trick to be observed is the quantity. There must be at least a hundred desires!

At the beginning of the list, all those dreams that are on the surface usually pop up, but the further, the more difficult. The brain begins to actively search for something else to come up with, and this is where the most interesting thing comes to light. Therefore, we book ourselves 30-40 minutes of free time in advance, when no one will distract, sit down and start writing.

We write whatever comes to mind. What did you dream about as a child? What would you like now? Maybe go somewhere, do something, but there is not enough time for this or there is no opportunity. Maybe start painting or take vocal lessons. Or learn foreign languages. You can make it up not in one go, but put it off and then supplement it over the course of several days.

After the list is ready, go through it with a pencil in hand and select a shortlist of the 10 strongest, most important and important desires. Of course, this is not easy. But you have to compare and choose what is more interesting and meaningful for you. Have you chosen? Very good. Now choose three winners out of 10. The most, the most. This method allows you to calculate your true desires, understand yourself and understand what you really want from life. Well, now, having understood what exactly the soul wants, you can begin to act. To begin with, we develop a plan-strategy, think about where to start, think over all possible steps - and go ahead! Towards your dreams, success, happiness!

Method # 2: get your uncle's inheritance

This is my favorite exercise! I am sure it will appeal to those who like to dream. Imagine that an inheritance fell on you from a billionaire relative who suddenly appeared out of nowhere and suddenly suddenly deceased. So, a couple of million dollars. Now we begin to write a free essay on a given topic, in which it is imperative to reflect on the following questions:

1. What will you do now, what will you do with your millions?
2. What previous occupations will you give up now?
3. What will you not give up for anything, even if you have millions?

It is better to write an essay using the freewriting method: we turn on the timer for 20 minutes and, without stopping, we begin to pour out the stream of our consciousness onto the paper.

Pay special attention to the second point, since it is he who shows what at the moment you are forced to do. For example, will you leave your current job (school) if you no longer need to work for a salary? Or maybe you will leave your husband / wife, because you were forced to live with this person due to certain circumstances? This does not mean that you need to tear everything at once, but it is necessary to pay attention and think.

After you finish your treatise, summarize by writing down all desires in a column, and then carefully look at what you can realize from what you have written without uncle's inheritance. Personally, it turned out that for many of my desires, only the desire itself is needed.:)

For example, in order to become a writer, to write books and articles in magazines, you do not need capital at all. And in order to travel (this item is always present for everyone), fabulous money is also not needed. I recently met a guy from Finland who, at the age of 32, has already been around the world twice, and at the same time he never flew on tours, but lived with ordinary people whom he found through the Couchsurfing community.

Method # 3: monitor your browser history

I saw this option in the blog of a psychologist, writer and mind-hacker Ivan Pirog. He argues that it is possible to become a born professional only in the field that interests us deeply and of which we ourselves are a consumer. Therefore, the search for what you love to start with the question:

Information on what topic am I endlessly interested in? What topic is my interest in?

To do this, open the browser history, correctly filter sites for the last few months and compile a rating of the most popular topics that you consume willingly and regularly. We write out all our observations in a notebook. If you come across a site whose topic is already on your list, then add a plus sign opposite it. We put pluses every time we come across a site of the same subject. Next, we write out in a separate column the most interesting topics that have gained the most pluses. For each, you need to check the bodily response, which is that you repeat the phrase "Make money on (topic name)" and observe your feelings, how your body reacts to this phrase, for example:

• Make money in foreign languages.
• Make money on cosmetics and makeup.
• Make money with funny pictures.
• Make money on the topic of self-development.

Feeling good means yes, and unpleasant sensations or no response at all means no. Measure all of your topics with how you feel on a scale from 0 to 10. Once you've identified the top topics, think about what exactly you could do in that area and how to make money from it.

Method # 4: re-create yourself

The main postulate that runs like a red thread through all the texts of an amazing girl, whose articles I read every time avidly, Olesya Novikova (author of projects "" and ""):

It is impossible to find oneself, one can only create oneself!

The same goes for your business and your path.

At one time I was very touched by her thought that there is no need to sit, wait and wonder what your destiny is. You need to move, become the best in your current field right now. If you are a secretary, then become the number one secretary in the whole world. Let your boss go nuts. What will it give? First, you will quickly go up; secondly, which is much more important, you will be able to touch the very path that everyone is looking for through your own conscious contribution and subsequent return.

And then a new observation deck will open in front of you, from which the view will be larger and wider than from the one on which you are now. And you can see and understand what you want to do at stage number two, already having a baggage of knowledge and experience of conscious doing.

Stage number two comes at a time when you clearly want to do your own thing. To be a creator in the full sense of the word and create your own reality in the form of deed in which you see it.

True satisfaction is brought by the creative process of creating your own business, whatever it may be, from cross-stitching to opening a factory for the production of cans, if your heart is in this and you have the ability. And the fruits of this activity, that is, the results (in the form of money, including) are a wonderful dessert, but by no means the only food that should fill us.

And finally.

Method # 5: write

Some time ago, I began to look for answers to the questions posed to myself in writing. For example, a situation happens, but I do not know how to resolve it, what to choose or how to act. Then I take a notebook, a pen and start writing whatever I think about it.

First, I formulate my problem or question, and then I begin to argue directly on paper how you can act, why it happened and how to live on. These writing practices helped me realize that all the answers are within us. And the most interesting thing is that even if I ask my friends or family for advice, I’m actually looking for confirmation, the correct wording of the very answer that I already have inside.

Writing helps you find this answer in your head on your own, slow down and speculate about what you really like, what you dream about, what you are proud of, what you are ashamed of, and so on. You don't even have to wait for a special occasion, but make it a rule to sit down every morning after soapy procedures and devote 15–20 minutes to writing practice. Not sure what to write about? Google Help: Find interesting questions on the Internet and work them out.

• Who would you invite to dinner if you could choose any person in the world?
• Would you like to be famous? In what field?
• Before you make a phone call, do you ever practice what you are going to say? Why?
• What is your ideal day?
• When was the last time you sang alone with yourself? And for someone else?
• If you could live to 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you choose?

When, after a while, you re-read your notes, the pieces of the puzzle begin to form by themselves. It will be much easier for you to understand who you are, what you want and which way to go further.

That, in fact, is all.:)

Live to the fullest and become the best version of yourself!

As for me, thanks to these techniques, I realized that my numerous interests are not a minus at all, but a way of developing myself (albeit not in depth, but in breadth). And all the insights and conclusions that arise in the course of my life, I share in my blog "". By the way, a blog is a great tool for structuring your knowledge and experience. But more on that in the next article.