5 Tips to Help You Figure Out What to Do With Your Life Define what ‘meaningful’ means to you One framework I’ve found useful is thinking about it in four categories: legacy, mastery, freedom and alignment. “Having a financial buffer will make it more likely that when you find something meaningful, you’ll be able to act on it,” wrote Amy Gallo in the Harvard Business Review. Collect experiences and be generous If you take one thing away from this, I hope it’s that your career and life are long, but not linear. I had been quietly sharing this presentation with all the women I know, but at the behest of a friend and colleague, I’m sharing it publicly in hopes that it’ll be useful for you — if you, too, have been thinking about what to do with your life. To figure out what I wanted to do, I did what I know best: I read everything, found the most useful tips and frameworks and started putting a plan into action. This week I’ve invited my friend and co-worker Millie Tran of our Global team to share some of her wisdom about figuring out her answer to that question we all grapple with at some point: What am I going to do with my life?
