It’s never too late!

It can be hard sometimes to believe that there’s a way out.

You may have been stuck for so long where you’re at in your life, that you think that’s where you’ll stay for ever.

But it’s never too late to look for what it is you really really want in life!

Now it may be that you want money. It may be that you want love. But if you go hunting for these, bull-headed, crashing through, trying to get these things, it often doesn’t work!

What you need to do is to look for satisfaction, fulfilment, a feeling of belonging. Once you have these in place you can start moulding the other things to fit in with that.

Follow your passion and the money will follow

Once you’ve found out what really drives you, what you really want to achieve, then you can start looking at how to earn money from doing that thing.

Instead of trying to earn money and fit in what you want to do round the edges: that’s backwards! While you may think you can never replace your current income from your passion, think again. Life and history are full of examples of people who pursued crazy ideas - and lived off them.

So approach it from the other direction.

“Find what you want first, THEN you can find how to earn money doing it.”

What about love?

And love - much the same thing. If you’re doing something you really value, you’ll meet other people who value the same thing. You’ll make new friends in an area where you thought you had none. And from one of those friends, well - perhaps love could grow.

But if you go out hunting for love, you’re very likely to be disappointed. As my mother used to say,

“Don’t marry for money, but marry where money is.”

Ha! It’s an old saying, but it’s a true one. And no, I didn’t take her literally regarding the money, but I enjoyed being with likeminded people. If you find yourself in the company of people you enjoy, people who understand, people who have the same ideas as you, then you can find people there who think like you. And like you. And this in time can grow to love.

Whether you are swept off your feet like a character in a romantic novel, or it’s a slow burn and you gradually realise you can’t live without each other, love flourishes in an environment where you feel you belong.