Breakthrough.
I've been working for a day on the challenges facing 20somethings.
Got to a stage where i was drawing up crazy charts and graphs. Blueprints. I was really pleased with them until I realised they made no sense to anyone but me.
What is the biggest challenge facing a 20something?
Succeeeding in our jobs? Addiction? Getting on the property ladder? Being great at sex?
No. You have to go beyond these admittedly huge problems. What causes these things to crop up in our lives? The 20something used to live a charmed existence. There was job security, affordable property, a stress free life. What makes the modern 20something into such a complex, compromised, crazy worrier?
I think I've figured it out:
It's convention.
We are all sold this massive convention of life from day one, that we must conform to or die unhappy.
Along the lines of:
University... job... partner... property... increase earning capability... so we can have a family... so we can be happy.
How absurd to think that there is such a structured path, such a rigorous set of rules and customs, into which we can successfully crowbar the youth of today.
So here's the breakthrough:
I've realised if my book is to truly help people in their 20's, it has to dispel all the conventions in their lives - for want of a better phrase, to get them out of the box.
Finding your purpose in life is truly the only standard or practice that should be promoted to the 20something.
Because on the other side of finding your purpose lies everything that all of the above promises.
I need my reader to really feel this - to really benefit from what I write.
Going to spend today working out how...
Writing time: 3 hours
Manifestation: 90%
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