Thank you for reading this, Anna — I appreciate you taking the time to write. I read your response a few times and would only offer this advice from a period of my life when I felt there were no other paths at that time.

What if, instead of thinking about other paths, you focused on something new to learn? Perhaps there’s a topic you would like to learn more about or start by reading a book about that topic? Or perhaps a skill. Or an art. Perhaps an instrument?

In my own experiences, I never found the first step to be a new path — instead, just something new to learn. Just enough to want to learn just a little bit more the next day.

Thank you, Anna. With gratitude, -Joe