If you feel like you're not enjoying your life, it is typically because you're lacking these qualities in your life, control, autonomy, and creativity. Having control gives you the ability to know that you can change your situation. Autonomy is the ability to make decisions without having to answer to someone else. Creativity is the ability to come up with new solutions. There won’t be a perfect solution that gives you all three 100% of the time but you can design your life to be pretty satisfied with the balance.

In order to get all three of these things, you just need to be so good they can’t ignore you. Once you reach this level with your life, then you will have more power to dictate your life. Instead of hoping things come your way, things will come to you and you’ll be able to pick and choose what projects you want to work on. It takes time to build up to this level but the outcome is very desirable.

Journal Prompts

1. What would having control, autonomy, and creativity mean to your life?
2. How can you become so good they can’t ignore you in your niche?