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In the movie “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko drops an incredible line, parabolizing about being able to spot another Wall Street guy. The line is “a fisherman can always see another fisherman from afar.” Replace fisherman with any profession you’ve ever worked and it holds true. I worked retail for quite a while, and I can spot someone else who has worked retail, …mostly from the will to live being absent from their eyes.

Over the last three years, I’ve done a lot of introspection, trying to find out about myself. I’d spent twenty years having the identity of someone’s boyfriend, fiancee, and husband. Once that was gone, what identity was left? That inner-reflection has benefited me in spades; I know who I am, as a person, as a professional, and as a creative. When you take responsibility for someone else’s existence out of the equation, it is much easier to analyze the aspects of yourself, and have a much better idea of who you are. That information will tell you multitudes about how to get where you are going.