What Do You Want To Do With Your Life? Darin’s Story

07 Nov What Do You Want To Do With Your Life? Darin’s Story

I was seven years old, sitting only as tall as the dashboard in my father’s Oldsmobile Cutlass. I asked what he wanted to do with his life. He wanted to sail, to be by the water and to ride a motorcycle again. Even at the time of this early memory, I felt a sense of awareness that these questions belonged to everyone, but more importantly, that we all had the desire to ask — and hear — the response.

My dad and I were very close. I watched as he spent his adulthood not serving his hopes and dreams, but instead serving the alcohol addiction that eventually took his life. Witnessing his struggle impressed upon me the importance of honoring the self. I realized that we design our own lives and we have the power to move addiction and darkness into the light of love and passion.

When my dad passed, influenced by the lessons I learned from his life, I began to honor my own passions. Acting on my curiosities about food and culture, I founded Darin’s Naturals (a small company dedicated to food investigation around the globe) as the culmination of many years of hard work, but also as a new start for all the good work to come thereafter.

Much like anyone else in pursuit of a happy and fulfilling life, I didn’t begin where I am now. I was not born with an easy or straightforward life. I did not grow up living by the ocean or traveling or hunting for superfoods. When I was younger I had a different dream, to be a football player, and when I was injured in college I had to find another way to experience a meaningful and fulfilling life. I knew that reaching the type of unshakeable happiness I wanted would be hard work, and so I never stopped working. Through discipline and practice, I have seen my understanding of the world become bigger, more complex, and more interesting. I have also purposefully surrounded myself with people who choose to show up and engage their creativity and their craving for life in everything they do.

In my experience, trying something new and getting “good” at it will always be possible if you have both the desire and the work ethic. This has been my truth and now it is my passion to help others awaken their own dreams and begin living a SuperLife!

I’m interested, comment in the facebook comment section below and tell me.. What do you want to do with YOUR life?

Love How You Live~

Darin Olien