What to Do if You Don’t Know What to Do
A Guide to Finding Your Purpose, Redefining Your Goals, and Creating a Better Life
by Evan Jones

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Are You Following Someone Else’s Dream? Or Is It Finally Time to Start Building Your Own? In a world where anxiety, burnout, and uncertainty define the transition from school to adulthood, it’s no wonder so many young people feel lost. With the pressure to ‘succeed’ building before we’ve even defined what success truly means to us, the path forward can feel like walking a tightrope without a safety net. This book is a conversation starter, a mindset shifter, and a quiet rebellion against the narrow definitions of success that has been handed down to us from generations past. It doesn’t pretend to have all the answers—but it will help you ask better questions. Drawing on his personal experience as a Canadian high school teacher with years of national and international teaching experience, Jones outlines how our current education system—designed to guide students from one structured task to the next—fails to prepare us for the unpredictable reality of adult life. Combining personal reflection with research-informed insight, What to Do if You Don’t Know What to Do is an exploration into why so many people feel lost in the modern-day workplace—and offers a perspective shifting framework for reclaiming a stronger sense of self and direction. Drawn from personal experience, deep reflection, and timeless wisdom, this guide is for the daydreamers, the late bloomers, and the eternally restless. Whether you read cover-to-cover or one section at a time, this is a practical guide for anyone seeking to move forward with intention. Read it in bites. Reflect deeply. Come back often. You’re not behind—you’re just getting started.

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Evan Jones is a high school English teacher and writer. He was inspired to create this book from a profound desire to help students who were struggling with finding their path in life and making that transition easier for those who have already passed through his doors. Before becoming a teacher, Evan earned a Master of Arts in history from Carleton University in 2015. He has traveled extensively, studying Buddhist practices of awareness and meditation at Wat Samai Kongka, a Buddhist temple and monastery in Koh Pha-Ngan, Thailand. He now teaches full-time and often offers mindfulness courses designed to help young teachers build resilience in the post-COVID teaching world. Evan lives in Moncton, New Brunswick, with his cat, Richard. You can follow and connect with the author on Instagram at ejones4900.

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