So many of us are in a perpetual state of….NOW WHAT?

College students who are rounding the corner on their senior year but have no idea what they really want to do with their lives after graduation—-or parents who are hugging their last kid to leave home as they watch them walk into the dorm with duffel bags full of dreams and soon to be–dirty laundry—or,  people who have spent a life-time “paying their dues” and who are desparate for a sea change—for something that “floats their boat” in a completely new way……………so many of us are living “on the verge”. 

NOW WHAT? can be a perpetually haunting question that never gets an answer.  One that sits there, in the middle of your life, like your cat asleep on your keyboard.  Or, it can become a state of mind that feels like a clean slate…..or an empty suit that leads us to believe that we are operating from “ zero”.  And, that’s where we get stuck—-”zero” is just not true.

So, here’s a suggestion.  It may sound simple.  Or even ridiculous.  But, simple works. 

What if you turned the question around?    What if you asked yourself—-WHAT NOW?

WHAT NOW?   WHAT am I enjoying NOW?  WHAT is working for me NOW?  WHAT people are in my life, right NOW that I value most, that I enjoy most, that I learn the most from, who inspire me?  If you were to list these things; really put these things down on paper—-they would be your best clues to what’s next, to NOW WHAT?

From this list, you will be able to see the elements of these circumstances and these people which ignite you, which appeal to you and which make you feel more alive.  Then  the answer to NOW WHAT would be—–a question.  “How would I get more of what’s on this list?”