So the other day I watched Julie and Julia. Basically it's a movie based on two true stories: one of Julia Childs, the author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and the other of Julie Powell, a writer who attempted to cook all of 524 recipes in Julia's book in 365 days and blogged about it. I identified greatly with Julie, for I, too, was looking for a challenge.
What kind of challenge one wonders? Well last year August I quit my job, decided to do a 180 change in career path because I felt like I was stuck. There were plenty opportunities moving forward in my job, and I knew I could build a career out of it, but do I really want to be an economist and do forecasts and write reports for the rest of my life? Do I really care which direction each currency was headed tomorrow, in 3 months, 1 year, 5 years so that traders and decision makers of big important companies could make well informed decisions to their next move in the financial markets? All I knew was that it was taking me weeks to get over a cough, my hair was falling out, I was waking up at 5am in the morning sometimes to get to work before 7am, only to sit next to this horribly annoying colleague of mine which emitted a cloud of dark and negative energy onto me the whole day (I'm not being very fair to the other colleagues though whom I all love very much).
So here I am 7 months later after making a radical change to my life. Seven months ago I decided that I will do what makes me happy, which just launched all these other questions - what does make me happy? How many of us know what makes us happy?
This brings me here... to the Pursuit for the Seven Wonders of My World.... Maybe even more than seven....
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