What to do with your life

As I ponder the great question of what to do with my life, I've found good guideposts along the way. 

Here's a list of advice from others on how to figure out what to do with your life.

Helpful

How to Do What You Love by Paul Graham.  Seems both pragmatic and insightful from an  accomplished person.

How to Find What You Love To Do Haven't tried his method yet, but it looks like a good start. 
How to Discover Your Life Purpose in 20 Minutes  by Steve Pavlina  haven't tried his method yet, but he seems to have figured out his own purpose
On Genius - Is Your Genius At Work? by Dick Richards I got the book, but what I came up with is too "general" to bring a specific goal.  Then I lent out the book, so I never did the exercises to figure that part out.

Ken Robinson on nurturing creativity in education (~20 min video) Not exactly on topic, but somehow related and reassuring.

[update 7 Aug] How To Do What You Love - advice for those in academia from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Yet the "Library Vacation" seems like could be good advice for me... 

Background
Steve Job's Commencement Speech at Stanford.  A good speech on the importance of doing what you love.
Find my... um... passion What?! A good description of the problem

Bleh

Finding Work That You Love  Somehow, this one seems overly sanitized, and tidy and condensed.  I think it is too impersonal.

Comments

[Hayden Shumsky]

Sorry that you think my series on Finding Work That You Love is overly sanitized and impersonal. I'd appreciate if you could point to something in particular that wasn't working for you. The ideas that I posted in that series come from years of working closely with young adults in their teens and twenties. I've found that the process which I've outlined in the 3 posts called Finding Work that You Love, is the most succcessful process for finding purpose and a meaningful career path. Did you read all 3 posts?