3. Do You Know What You Want from Your Career and Life?

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

If you read the preface, you know that what inspired me to write this book was the realization through my work with others that a good majority of people are not in their dream job or even close to their idea of having a great career. What happened to them? They lost touch with their internal compasses or consciously decided ...

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