In This Episode

Is it too late to follow a dream?

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* Ikigai* How to find and do work that you love* Secret to a long and happy life

Show Credits

Main show hosted, produced, mixed, edited & music by Mark.

BlogScript

The path before you is bountiful. It’s exotic and ever changing. As you travel this path and its winding roads, in your hands is a walking stick. Fashioned from a branch at the fork in the road. You use this stick. This broken branch. You use it to lift boulders, dig trenches, and to keep you upright in times of need.

Then there is a moment, a moment in which you find you need more. You notice the stick. This branch, that you had longed believe to be another limb, can be reinforced. It can be stronger. Then you wonder… how long have I had this? How long has this held me up?

As you gaze upon this branch, you look up to find yourself back at the fork in the road. Back at the tree from which the branch fell. The new path looks curious but before you continue, you rest. You drink the shade the tree provides and steady yourself for the paths ahead.

You ask yourself—Is it too late to pursue a path that is so different from that I have traveled?

Is it too late to pursue a dream?

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Dreams

Are we too old for them?

If you are like me, then you may have found yourself mired in the thoughts and opinions of others to choose something…practical.

And you bend.

Years of pressure enforces its will upon you and you go down a path that is still exciting, but not the one you love.

Some of us are lucky and they continue down their path of interests. Honing their skills. Steadily improving.

Others find their lost passion but are stuck in discerning if it’s too late.

The unfortunate few, never find it.

And thus, I belong to the group that wondered if its too late to follow a dream.

And you might wonder, how do you find this elusive dream?

It may come slowly. It may be something that has always been with you but you’ve abandoned it to pursue another path. For me, it was writing and design. That was the thing I enjoyed but left to follow tech. Although, I enjoy tech, it was never a passion. Still, the thing I relied on for many tech related projects, when given the chance, was writing and design. As I didn’t pursue either to study the technical foundation, I was still “OK” at them, if you ask me.

It wouldn’t be until nearly two decades later that I recognize what I liked most about my work. What I liked most about the projects I worked on. They all came to writing, and design.

I then wondered if it would be too late to pursue a career using both? To pursue a passion of both?

While I undergo training for the day career to learn and study the technical foundations of Graphic and UX Design as well as ...