It’s been a long time since I’ve given a ‘life update’, and I’m excited to share it with you now.

Guys, I’ve found direction. I’m so happy.

For the past 4 years now (wow) I’ve been dilly dallying along the river of life, going with the flow, searching for some kind of meaning. I’ve always known what I was good at, and kept an organized list of things I wanted to be when I ‘grew up’.

But I never felt like I was on the right track.

I always felt like something was missing. I had all of these ideas of the kind of person I wanted to be, and the types of things I wanted to accomplish, but no action would ever come of it. My desire to do something ‘great’ with my life wasn’t strong enough to get me moving, the fire wasn’t hot enough. I began to think I would be directionless and drifting for the rest of my life, until I got married, had kids, and stopped pursuing anything but loving and taking care of them. Which is priority in itself.

But I’m happy to say I’ve finally found direction, and I finally feel like I am moving. (Cue Finally Moving song and pop the champagne.)

Something lit a fire under my ass, and it was bloggers. They got me to keep my head on straight. They helped me realize it’s not a race. This has been the one thing preventing me from moving forward with anything–the fact that I thought I’d never have enough time to do everything I wanted, and that I’d never be able to catch up to all of the other people had already accomplished things, or were in the middle of accomplishing things.

I slowed down. I slowed way down.

In my meditations I reminded myself that every single person was given 24 hours in a day, and that I was the one responsible for what happened in that 24 hours. I reminded myself that it was not a race. That it wasn’t about who got the most popular blog the fastest, it was about one small thing you did each day to help you get to where you needed to be. (And to please be okay with this.)

So a couple of weeks ago, I decided to make a list. Or three separate lists rather. (There’s a fabulous blog post about being a listaholic that I read the other day, please do yourself a favor and read it here.)

Now, I have multiple projects going on, and this was always another inhibiting thing, so I made three separate lists for three separate projects that I’m working on. I distinctly heard Marie Forleo’s voice in my head: “It’s okay to be working on multiple things as long as you’re good at managing your time.”

I pictured these three projects as three separate college classes and decided that each night I would have ‘homework’ to do for each of them. No excuses. I was going to work on at least one thing in each ‘subject’ before I went to bed each night during the week. Yes the day was long, working out and eating well were also priorities, and if I wasn’t able to sit down to work until 10pm then I just wasn’t able to sit down to work until 10pm and that was it. I would get shit done. This was my time,  and my life. My responsibility.

So after all that blah, blah, blah, here are my three projects:

1. Side business with a good friend (more on that later)

2. Freelance writing (I’ve been hustling!)

3. Being a better blogger

Aside from the first thing, I’ve been blabbing about those last two things for some time now. But I’m seriously taking action now. I’m taking a freelance writing class on how to find freelance clients, and I’ve already applied to a couple of gigs. Each time I think, there’s no way I have enough writing experience for this but you know what? I do it anyway. I do it anyway because at the end of life, there is no one standing there lighting you on fire for trying to write for clients when you have no previous experience writing in their niche. There is zero fault in making yourself sound AMAZING to get ahead in this life, as long as you believe you can deliver. And when it comes to writing, I swear to you I will deliver.

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The side business thing I can’t talk about just yet, but let’s just say I have a business partner who is also a deliciously good friend. She’s also the most accomplished friend I have (even though she’d never admit it), so I know this is no bullshit. I’m excited to push myself to my limits and break out of my comfort zone to make this business a reality. And it always helps when you have the right person to do it with.

And I’m always and forever trying to become a better blogger. It is the best labor of love. I can’t get enough of learning new things when it comes to blogging. I hope I’m never professional enough to have mastered everything.

So that’s the life update, that’s where I’ve been, and that’s where I’m headed. I already made a list of 3 other blog posts I want to write based on the stuff I just wrote about, so if you’re on a similar path, please don’t hesitate to stay tuned.

Have you found direction recently too? Or are you still somewhat drifting? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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Monique Muro

Monique is an exceedingly happy human from LA. She runs the blog A Novel Quest, and writes. A lot.

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