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What I Want To Do In Life Essay

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Throughout our entire life, if there is one question we have been asked way more than necessary, it would be “What do you want to do with your life?” And this question can be flipped and have words exchanged to form a different question, but essentially they all want to know the same thing.

What do you want to do with your life?

Here’s the problem, most of us have no idea. Our parents, teachers, relatives and anyone older than us have treated us like five year old who do not understand the reality of life. But what they don’t understand is the humongous leap from asking your teacher when you need to use the toilet to making one decision that will determine if you succeed or fail in life. The question that will determine if you have a million …show more content…

And I know the final question to ask myself based on the type of life I want to create for myself: What is the one thing I would want to spend every single day of the rest of my life doing? If you’ve figured out your life goal, with some time and pondering, you’ll figure out what your final question is and that will cut off most of the options from your list.

Something to remember is no matter what you decide to do in life, you will face hardships and there are things you will have to sacrifice along the way. You just have to pick something worth sacrificing everything else for.

So instead of looking at “What do you want to do with your life?” as a 100 mark Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) question - even if we all know it is. Break it down into smaller parts -in this case easier to answer questions: 1) What do I not like? 2) What is my life goal? And 3) What should I do to create the life I want to live?

If you know me, then you know I am one of the most indecisive people there is on planet Earth. I came up with these questions from personal experience as it led to me to figuring it out what it is I want to do with my life. I sincerely hope this will help anyone out there who was like me

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