#25. Confessions of a Job Seeker – Feb. 2013
This series is based on a design journal that I kept between 09/12 – 02/13. New? Start here.

I started this adventure with the intention of ‘helping people to live authentic and inspired lives, so they can reach their true potential.’ At the time, however, I didn’t fully understand what I was setting out to do. I now know that the journey is the gift and that to live a vibrant, passionate and heartfelt present is the goal. This may be one of the most rewarding things that life can offer, yet it is also one of the most difficult things to learn how to do. It requires that we accept the present as enough, which also means that we must accept ourselves as enough. This is easier said than done, of course.

I think what it comes down to is choosing to be all in without guarantee of any return. It’s asking how the experience of doing something can be worthwhile on it’s own, regardless of outcome. It’s doing what needs to be done so that you can show up as your best possible self. I ask myself these questions every single day and am still learning what it all means in practice. I hope that in some form my journey can serve others. That together we can learn how to live fully and boldly, while also being present for what is truly an incredible journey – if we allow it to be.

As I write the final post in this series, I am humbled and moved by the events of the past couple of years. I have been tested in ways that I couldn’t ever have imagined and have grown in leaps and bounds because of it. I am beyond grateful to the people who stood by me while I took the risks that I couldn’t not take. Their belief in me has helped me see that our ability to believe in ourselves is directly related to our capacity for love. It has reminded me that the truth is simple. The people we love are all that matter.