Creating the life you want involves a lot of saying no—sometimes in ways that feel counterintuitive. Here’s how I rejected giving influential people too much power over my life, cut out obligations that I no longer found important, and retooled systems that just weren’t working anymore.
Articles tagged "lifestyle design"
5 Steps to Recreate Your Space Today
Want a space you love, that supports your multipotentialite passions and endeavors? Don’t wait for perfection—some quick and easy changes can bring big improvements right where you are.
Dear Puttylike: How Do I Choose a Course of Study?
Help! I’m an academic who’s been invited to pursue a PhD, but my interests and talents are too wide-ranging and diffuse. I have no idea how to start narrowing down an area of focus for my doctorate.
Show Me About Yourself: Personal Branding for Multipotentialites
For those with a wide range of talents, interests, and career experiences, summarizing who you are as a professional can seem like a daunting (or even impossible) task. It can also boost your self-confidence and transform the way you think about your life.
Does a Multipotentialite Life Have to Mean Chaos?
As people who are balancing many passions and projects, multipotentialites need to organize their lives differently than others. But what happens when a well-loved system of organization starts to bend under pressure?
3 Things I Lacked in My Portfolio Career (and How to Get Them)
Every multipotentialite career model has specific drawbacks and deficits. Here’s are the pitfalls I wish I’d known about when I set out on my portfolio career, and how you can avoid them—or at least accept them with open eyes.
Living The Good Life as a Multipotentialite With ADHD
Multipotentialites living with ADHD can turn it into a superpower—if they know how to use it. And we can all enjoy life more when we zoom out from our persistent challenges to see what strengths we’ve been building along the way.
Ikigai Isn’t What You Think…It’s Much Better
I thought this life-changing concept was about checking all the boxes until you landed on a career that fulfilled every singe one of your needs—leading inevitably to happiness. As it turns out, happiness isn’t the point at all.
What Will I Do with My Brief Multipotentialite Life?
When I reflect on the brevity of my family members’ lives, I also contemplate what this means for my own mortality as a multipotentialite. If I don’t have much time, I need to realign my life with my values now.
