Don’t worry about crafting a master plan

- [Man] Okay, so we got the, "I'm lost. "What am I doing? "Where am I going with my life?" That obsession you say one of the very first steps is to just accept. It's okay to start before you have the whole master plan, step by step, laid out, so what are some of the other first steps that folks should take when they're wresting with this one? - [Woman] Yeah, I think when you are just kind of obsessed with that question, there's a lot of people out there that are going to tell you to find your passion or figure out your purpose, which honestly, and I don't want to offend anyone, I kind of think it's BS, because we're all really smart people, right? If we knew the answer to that, we'd be doing it already. And so it really is more of getting us into action, to a place that we're going to be able to really level-up the answer to some of those, like, really big questions. And at a macro view, kind of figuring out where is my life going really is about dropping the obsession with the big picture and stepping into the unknown. You know, I am a reformed goal junkie and then some. I just used to live my life by a master plan, but there's a number of things that happen when you do that, right? We've all been there, where we've achieved a goal then feel completely empty about it, whether we've done that at work, or whether we've done that in our own lives. We've set this bar for ourselves, and we get there, and it's like, "Well, this doesn't really feel like anything." Or we don't have the ability to even conceptualize the master plan. The feeling of loss comes from both of those, and just at a really, at a macro view, when we can tap into our own power and be willing to step into the unknown, we're going to create the path as we go. That is what starts to open up the, like, "Oh, I actually do know where this is going." But you're not going to think your way to that answer.