Consider your life a Work of Art. 

Take time, lots of it, yes, weeks, perhaps even months, to think deeply about your life and to write about it.

Great art deserves careful consideration and meticulous planning. Such contemplations will not require, in the meantime, you to stop functioning. Humans are vastly capable and can think and plan and ponder their unique works of art while engaged in day-to-day life as it is.

“Am I going where I want to go and doing the things I really want to do with the people who are most important to me?” is the backdrop question.     

Articulating goals, even if they are unsure, generic, will bring you an added confidence as you pursue your ArtLife.

Identify which people are really important to you. 

Evaluate what activities are really important to you. 

Assess your direction. 

Some people will tell you that this is a selfish way to live and, sadly, some will indeed plan selfish lives and reap the disappointment such planning will bring. 

A life seen as art, planned as art, results in fulfilled, generous and thoughtful people.

Haphazard living, pointless, random existing, dependent on others for a sense of meaning and purpose, is a selfish life if I ever saw one.