Creating the life we want

What's life without a little meandering eh?! I’ve always wanted to do multiple things and have made lots of fun detours on the career path... From setting out to be a designer to coaching for medicine, studying engineering instead, quitting an MBA course, editing science books, writing ad campaigns. For the last few years, I’ve been working in a marketing role for a startup, which has been immensely rewarding! Throughout this journey, my love for drawing elephants has remained consistent :D

Every week I get emails from folks who want to restart an old hobby, switch careers, try something new… and most of the time it’s fear that’s the biggest barrier. Lack of time, difficult circumstances, financial restrictions, tough situations, no access to opportunities—of course there are lots of obstacles. But I think the “what if” uncertainty is perhaps one that’s much scarier in our heads than it actually is. Our lives can only be dictated by what we surrender to!

We create the life we want… and it’s a continuous process of experimenting, eliminating, tweaking, questioning, lamenting about the lack of answers, but holding on to our dreams in one way or the other. We keep talking about how to fit the things we love doing into our lives, but maybe we can arrange our lives around the things we love doing ;)