Back to Me

A project to get back to your inner child

"You know that feeling where every day you go to work, you do plenty of things, but you don't know exactly where you're heading or whether you're actually satisfied?"

There's a moment many of us know well: you know something's wrong, but you don't know exactly what. You go to work, you do the things, but every day there's an underlying frustration you can't quite name. So you do the most obvious thing — you look for another job. Except you look somewhat at random, based on what the market offers, on what you studied, on the requirements that seem to match you. You're not really choosing. You're reacting.

That was me in 2024. I had no clarity on what I wanted to do, and without that clarity every decision seemed equally good or equally wrong.

So I asked myself a question: is it possible to build a path — a series of questions, activities, reflections — that brings me at least a little closer to an answer? Not the definitive answer, because that doesn't exist and will change over time. But something more solid to lean on.

I built Back to Me thinking only about myself. No model to copy, no guru to follow. Just a simple logic: first look inside yourself, then look at where you want to go, then honestly look at how you're living now, then find the gap, then build small, concrete steps to move in the right direction.

I did it. And a year and a half later, the things I set out for myself back then are what I'm living out now. There's nothing magical about it — I finally had a clear starting point.

The 5 phases

1
Who I am
Adjectives, strengths, what the people who know you think of you. Before looking outward, look within.
2
Who I want to become
What you like, who inspires you, your keywords. The direction before the road.
3
How I live now
Your real week, hour by hour, with the emotions attached. Not how you'd like it to be — how it is.
4
The gap
What's wrong, what you can change, what's up to you. Diverge to understand, converge to choose.
5
The plan
Small, concrete steps toward the direction you've found. Not a revolution — an adjustment.

A story in the making — what I used to tell myself

2017
end of high school

"There are so many things I can do and study, why do I have to pick just one?"

2020
end of bachelor's

"Okay, I graduated well with top grades, now what do I do? I'm not sure I really like what I studied. If I did economics, what can I study for my master's now? Maybe I'll try to get into a good university; if they don't take me, I'll enroll in psychology."

2023
end of master's, during the internship

"Okay, you're lost: you can't find your passions. It's all fine, it happens. But now, where do I start?"

2024
after 1 year of work

"I constantly feel like I'm searching for something that gives me a bit more than what I already have in my life. I know, it sounds like a curse."

Mar–May 2024

I create and go through Back to Me.

2026
after 3 years of work

"I still live with questions and difficulties. Sometimes I'm frustrated because I'd like to do more. But I recognize these are all normal things. What's changed is that now I'm very at peace with what I want to do. I know the energy I'm putting into things is well aligned with what I like. Maybe I'll change jobs, maybe none of my projects will work out. But it doesn't matter, because what I do represents me and I feel good. I'm learning and I'm creating. I don't need anything else right now."

Tomorrow?

Who knows. But that's not the point. Now I have tools.

Back to Me doesn't give you an answer. It helps you find it.

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