WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
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INSPIRATION FOR TODAY:
"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going."
~ Earl Nightingale
WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
It's been suggested here that you need to regularly analyze your goals and your dreams, so that you can stay on course or make needed adjustments to succeed and achieve your idea of happiness. Whether your work makes you happy or simply helps you to achieve happiness, it's the feeling that you are making progress that keeps you going. Staying focused on becoming successful helps you to achieve that success.
Unfortunately, there can be an awful lot of distractions along the way. Unforeseen circumstances can often delay us on our life's journey. Family responsibilities end up demanding more time than we had planned, financial bumps can use more resources than we had hoped, or perhaps our changing health redirects our energies in ways we could not have foreseen. While these circumstances are beyond our control, the manner in which we react to them is not.
James Allen plainly tells us that "having conceived of his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a straight pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right or to the left, but straight." Maybe "forward" is a better word, since driving "straight" on a curved path will bring obvious negative consequences! But we can't just put on blinders - maybe we can't help but take a quick glance around us when the unexpected lurks just off the path. But it's important not to linger too long and stray from the mapped plan. It's too easy to get distracted on the way to our dreams, to take a "detour" when we see a bump in the road.
If you've taken a side-road on the way to your Nirvana, refill your tank, take another look at the map, and begin navigating your way back towards your goals. Try to use whatever you've picked up during your detour and incorporate that into your dream. Leave everything else behind. Constantly remind yourself of Charles Swindoll's advice: "The past is over...forget it. The future holds hope...reach for it."
