@Clay: I agree with Annie–keep up the good work!

I haven’t gone to work since. Instead, I took a 10 month “incubation” period where I did a number of system resets. First, I sold over $5000 worth of low value items on Ebay. All of a sudden, even the hint of clutter made me mental. That problem got solved. I ditched 2 toxic relationships and felt lighter the instant I did so. I lost 20 pounds that I didn’t really realize I had gained. I have read countless books and started selling the finished ones on Amazon. My bookshelf is nearly empty! I developed a really awesome personal finance system that works like a charm and…as you mention in this interview…I installed a new operating system

Best of all, I hardly recognize the person I was a year ago. I don’t know where my brain must have been in order to string along so many consecutive days of being paralyzed with short & long term hyperactive goal setting, being “sooooo busy” and “impossible to get ahold of.” What was I thinking?

By the end of the summer, I should have the beginnings of some new plans in place. I will have a new job that allows me to keep very moderate hours in a field that I really find interesting. Best of all, I’ll be called upon to do quite a bit of writing which will help my 2nd venture: blogging. I finally think that I mustered the courage to start a blog and I’m calling it “The Hobbiest.”

During this time off, stringent relatives would endlessly say, “So what DOES your ideal career look like? You’d be a good lawyer!” Rolling my eyes, I thought, in a perfect world, I just want to pursue my hobbies! For a living! So the blog will be my day-to-day account of getting knee deep in every single hobby I love! Piano, travel, ballet, writing, current events, reading, personal finance, cooking, sailing, speaking french…..jack of all, master of none But here’s to designing a life that has room for everything.

Keep up the great work. It’s extra inspiring!