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Originally Posted by MattUK  Recently my friend told me i have no path or no direction in life, although im qualified as a personal trainer, he says i should go back into education so i can get a degree so i can get a "skilled job" and earn a decent income and fulfill my life instead of sitting at home and failing over and over with affiliate marketting etc. |
Having no clear goals certainly is a problem, and from what you've posted that seems to be one of your major problems right now. Getting a college degree so you can get a job where somebody else will be telling you what your goals are is hardly a solution to this. It might work if you're at a low level of consciousness, but if you were then you wouldn't be asking for help here in the first place.
What's very likely to happen to you is what happened to me. I went to college, got a degree, got a job. Just like everyone around me said I should. And then I quickly realized that I don't want to be working for someone else. So basically I spent four years getting a degree and then another year (half of which I was looking for a job, it was a really bad job market after the dot com crash) realizing that I don't even want to have a job. I spent all that time and energy just to get a job, and then I started thinking "now what?". I felt like I flew into a brick wall.
Do you want to waste all that time just to later find out that it's not what you really want? Especially since you already know that it's not what you want. Knowing what you don't want is a good first step though because it means you can now focus on figuring out what you do want. It sounds like you haven't come up with a good way to offer value in exchange for money while working for yourself or running a business.
You say you're a qualified personal trainer, right? If you're passionate about this line of work, why not start your own business based on this? Or simply work for yourself as a personal trainer? One time when I was looking for a gym to join, I found a personal trainer (in the yellow pages) who had set up a mini-gym and worked one on one with clients, who came to his mini-gym. It was really just some rented space in the basement of an office building, and had a whole bunch of gym equipment. With this setup you can serve wealthy clients, who'd be able to pay you a very good hourly rate.
These articles might help you as well:
Living Your Values, Part I Living Your Values, Part II The Power of Clarity