Your life direction

Have you ever found yourself waking up one morning up full of zest and energy about pursuing your life’s dreams and then realized six months down the track that you aren’t even one step closer to any of your goals? If you find yourself in this rut, then perhaps it’s because you’ve been caught in a trap of a kind which is difficult to get out of. Where are you headed? You don’t know. Where have your dreams gone? On the back burner.

Most of us don’t know our direction in life. We live with so many dreams inside us but somehow we keep finding excuses to delay the pursuit of our goals. We come up with so many excuses: bills to pay, family to take care of, work to finish, etc. Too many excuses and too many delaying tactics. In fact we can be very creative and inventive with our excuses. In the end, when we see that we haven’t accomplished much, we have no one to blame but us. We don’t want to live life this way. But then, who does?

We get off track time and again, as most people do. We get too caught up in life’s little hindrances that we forget to live in the moment, to enjoy the now! The reason for all the confusion may be because our dreams are not as well-defined as they should be. The problem here, therefore, is focus. We must have clarity of thought to know how we can accomplish what we want. We need a step-by-step plan that spells out what we have to do to get to the end. When we experience setbacks, we have to know how to deal with each of them. After all, nothing in life is perfect. There are many things which are way beyond our control, and if we live our life going a step forward and then two steps back, we are really going further away from our dreams. The farther we go, the more impossible it will seem to get what we want.

It’s also important to acknowledge the situation we’re in. We all live in different environments and have different methods of coping with reality. The important thing is to be in touch with the things that happen around us. Knowing how our surroundings affect us will give us clues on what to do with the inevitable limitations we experience. Then we can make a commitment to change the situation we are in and to track our growth on a regular basis.

We can sometimes fall flat on our faces and also commit social faux pas along the way. If this happens, just remember it’s not the end of the world. We get up, keep moving, and come up with an even better plan. We don’t need to be ’superheroes’. What we need is an strong spirit to continue on despite mistakes. We have to be our own biggest supporter, the person who cheers the loudest during game time. Otherwise, who will believe in a person who doubts themself? Let us start chasing our dreams and stop running away from harsh reality.

Filed Under: Personal Development

Tags: Goal Setting • Personal Growth