Reading your post was like going back in a time machine. I had the same reservations ten years ago, (and I sometimes still have those same reservations but in a far less serious life-changing way and it’s usually with a martini in hand) At 24, I left an advertising job, backpacked through Europe on my own, and returned to New York to become an actress. I found a temp job, a cheap apartment, and I just DID IT. And not to mention I graduated from an Ivy League college so my parents weren’t exactly thrilled.

If you want to do something–anything–you can do it. At first it feels a little, actually a lot, uncomfortable, but hey, change always is. That’s why so few people do it. If you want to teach yoga and write, teach yoga and write. Practically speaking, maybe keep the full time job while you get certified. Talk to some yoga teachers. See how they live. Surely some of them are artists too. I’m a writer now, and so I know–if you want to be an artist, there’s no real way around a struggle of some kind. Financial, personal. There’s always a price for anything worth doing. But what you gain is always worth far more than what you (seem) to lose.

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