QUESTIONS:
“What
do I want? Where do I want to be?”
I think
these are two questions that everybody has asked themselves at one point or
another. Sometimes, the answer is simple. At other times, it can be
multi-layered and complex. Still, complicated or simple, there’s one thing you
need to know in order to figure out how to end up where you want to be and how
to get to what you want. The first thing you need to know to answer those two,
very important questions is where you are.
You will
continue to either feel lost or, waste time wandering around trying to figure
out things on the fly if you don’t have any realistic idea of where you are,
right now, in this moment in time. Because of social media and self-induced delusions,
we can lie to ourselves and lie to the rest of the world but, to get to where you
want to be…and to get whatever it is that you want…you have to take a LONG look
in the mirror. You have to be brutally honest with yourself about your current
circumstances. How can you know which direction you need to go, what moves you
have to make, if you don’t even know where you are? Whenever you look at a map
on a wall in a building, you’ll see a marker that reads, “YOU ARE HERE,” with
an arrow to show you exactly where you’re standing.
Many
people never achieve their goals or get to the level where they can happily live
their dreams simply because they’ve spent too much of their lives completely
lost. That’s why you have to take a moment…take a breath…take some time and
figure out exactly where you are. Then, and ONLY then will you figure out where
you need to go next to travel on the path that leads where you want to eventually end up.
