Are you still looking for that one thing that will make you happy, trying to finally identify the right career path for you? Are you jealous when someone tells you "I've known what I want to be since I was twelve!"?   Do your friends and family say to you, in slightly anxious tones, "I just hope you find whatever it is that makes you happy and do it!"

Renaissance Souls are quite capable of bringing a passionate attention to a variety of interests, often simultaneously. My client Carlie is both a professional clown who entertains children and a Holocaust educator who gives talks on the lessons of Auschwitz. Another, Cindy, spends part of her time showing visitors from France the hidden joys of Boston and the rest of her time on importing antique china from England for sale to American collectors.

If you're a Scanner, you are a very special kind of thinker. Unlike those people who seem to find and be satisfied with one area of interest, you're genetically wired to be interested in many things, and that's exactly what you've been trying to do.

Author, speaker and workshop leader Margaret Lobenstine writes in her book The Renaissance Soul about people - often gifted and talented - “whose number one career choice is ‘Please don’t make me choose!’ and whose underlying passion is to constantly redefine our passions."

Are you unable to figure out what drives you and why you’re so different from people who made their choices early and followed one path? Why can’t you start working on your dreams—and stick to them? How will you ever focus your curious mind on one path when you can’t bear to turn your back on anything? What makes you tick?