When I was 7, I told anyone who asked that when I grew up I was going to be a journalist. I loved reading and writing, and sometimes I'd flip my mini indoor trampoline on its end and sit behind it and force a babysitter to "watch me on TV" as I read my version of the evening news.

When I was 15, I altered that to "journalist or lawyer" (because my teen years were the ones where I proved, mostly to my poor parents, just how good I was at driving my points home, debating anything and everything, and never backing down from a fight).

When I was 19, I decided to major in Public Relations because it was the closest thing to journalism that my school offered. And even though I was far from sold on either public relations or journalism, I didn't know what else I wanted to do.

And when I was 22, I flirted with the idea of becoming an archaeologist, mostly because I'd majored in art history and loved it and had also watched The Mummy a lot as a kid.

Since then I've played around with the idea of becoming, in no particular order: A staff writer for an online women's magazine, a relationship advice columnist, a marriage and family therapist, a life and career coach, and oh yeah … a private detective (my friends still want me to do this one).

You might think that these things are all really random. But they're not. You might also think that it was hard to choose between them. But to be honest, once I knew how to choose, it wasn't very difficult at all.

Today's blog is a throwback to May of 2017! We're re-sharing because it's the perfect blog to compliment the holiday special we're running on the Passion Profile Short Course. Scroll down for $50 off the course.

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