How Self-Talk Could Ignite Self-Transformation

A friend of mine asked me last time we talked, “How could you find things you want? You seem to know the path where you want to go.” It has been some weeks, and honestly, I forgot my answer to her. I probably answered with some regular politically correct answer, “I learn to follow my passion”. Now that I am thinking about her questions, “But how? How did it start”. Certainly, there was a point in my life where I seemed okay from the outside in my late 20s— having a good job as an engineer and financially dependent, but inside I was a mess.