From Small To Big

Find your purpose every day, and you may live longer and happier. Take cues from the Japanese concept of Ikigai to harness what you love doing and what you’re good at, so build it up to your bigger dreams. Good luck!

- Lina Esa

Let’s face it, if your life was on Waze, the navigation voice would have “Recalculating” on loop. Most likely, you’ve renavigated a little on your path through your teens and twenties. And that lead to a little status anxiety. Gah.

But we are for the arguments that it’s okay to change the goal posts once in a while to help you traverse the paths that is life. “Falling prey to ‘shoulds’ is a negative way to run your life — you’re always going to fall short,” explained psychologist Jacqui Manning. So take a chill pill if your priorities are shifting.

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