AboutJ. Kyle Howard Expertise We are all multi-dimensional people with various degrees of likes and dislikes. When it comes to finding your purpose, we must take that into account. My intent is to help you to properly and easily define what would bring you the most joy in life, how to live on purpose, and how to live the life you are uniquely qualified to live. I will help you get all that is important to you, be all that you were created to be, and become the uniquely wonderful person living the wonderful life that is meant for you, your purpose in life
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Expert: J. Kyle Howard Date: 2/15/2008 Subject: Directionless
Question
I’m a 26yo female, single and directionless. My biggest problem is that I feel that I can do anything and I can’t stick to anything.
I am from Australia but I live and work in the US. I am in my final year of a psychology degree, but I have always been an artists and in the creative field.
I have always been told how exceptionally talented I am in the arts. I am a portrait artist and I am pretty good and I love it. My last job was as an art director where I had to research and develop how to turn photos into paintings using a digital protocol and than train employees in India how to perform the task.
The reason that I chose psychology as a major was that I couldn’t take studio classes while working at the company as I traveled a lot to India for the job. I also felt that I was at an age where I really should have a collage degree. I could take psychology classes online, otherwise I would have studies fine art or advertising.
I recently quit my job and came to spend some quality time with family in Australia. I want to move to NYC as it’s always been a dream, and I decided to do some further study in fine art there. I was accepted to some art schools but I have not received any scholarship, which makes it very hard to afford. I also just received a rejection letter from a top full-scholarship art school (cooper union), which has made me doubt my artistic ability whatsoever.
Now I don’t know what to do. I need to be in a school so that my visa continues in NY. And I don’t know what I want to study. I am looking at advertising, but this means going backwards and doing 2 years again to a bachelor’s degree. Or I can do a post-grad degree in psychology. Or I can accept one of the fine art school offers if I really believe that is what I want to do.
But the problem is that I don’t know. I’m very entrepreneurial and I have opened cafes with my ex-boyfriend before. I don’t know if I think too highly of myself because basically I feel as if I can do anything but somehow I haven’t really done anything. Any advice will help, and if you ask me where I want to be in 10 years time I’d say happy, married and living on a little island in a beach house and not having to work at all.
Answer Hello Zuz,
My first and most important comment on this is to follow your heart. You already know that art is what you are here to share. The problem, if I have identified it correctly, is maintaining your Visa.
You are living in a land of opportunity. The world cares not what you ask of it. You simply have to ask for what you want. You have a marketable skill that you could use to pay for classes. Have you thought about teaching art while paying your way through school?
Don't allow some school who can't recognize your talent to determine your life. It may have been your first choice but may not have been your best. Trust that you will be put in the best situation for you. Trust and relax into it.
Now as far as your vision of beach living, be sure that every decision, goal, thought,idea, etc must bring you closer to it or don't waste your time pursuing it.
