The "What?"

Since I can remember, I had always preoccupied myself with two questions. One was a generic one: "What is the meaning of life?" The other was a more personal one: "What is my mission in life?"

I gave up on figuring out the first question (or came up with too many different and very often conflicting answers), but I never stopped thinking about the second one.

Upon completing the high school I had to decide what would be my undergraduate studies. My natural choice was psychology as I was always intrigued by how we humans make decisions, what drives us, what makes us happy, why we live in paradoxical ways, why are relationships so easy yet so complicated, how to make the most of our one and precious life.

In spite of my natural tendency towards investigating the human nature, I decided to study Economics and added the psychology piece to my hobbies. Economics and business opened up a new path for me and I quickly integrated into the whole business environment. I traveled a lot with work, met many inspiring and interesting people and even though I enjoyed every project I worked on and the people I was working with, I felt that one piece of the puzzle was missing.

Many times I would start a conversation with friends and colleagues about our true passions and how to make a living out of it. I enjoyed so much listening to other people's passions, dreams, business ideas and life long plans. But when it was my turn, I suddenly blocked and could never verbalize what my passion is. And then once, when I was talking to my career coach in the second year of the business school, it suddenly dawned on me. I told my coach: I would love to be the person on the other side of the table! I want to do what you are doing! I love to listen to other people and help them make their dreams come true!

Finally, I got the clarity on "What to do". But the process on "How to get there" was and still is very vague and uncertain. To be frank, I still have doubts that this could one day turn into a career.

Luckily, life works in a funny but simple way - once you have the alignment of clarity and commitment, things start coming together. Very soon I met the right people and got the right information, which, I believe, set me on the right path. It will be a long and hard, but fun and fulfilling journey and I'm happy to share every happy and less happy experience with you.

As Abraham Lincoln once said: "And in the end, it's not how many years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

That's exactly what I wish to you: A Life "Full of Life".