Where Are YOU Going With Your Life?
Don’t know?
If that is the answer take some time and find out now. I spent too many years of my life floating aimlessly, alway believing that everything would be alright - it was, just alright.
I was never one for goals and when I heard people talking about them it turned me off - too much of that American shit was my thinking. Consequently I did not achieve much, I did okay in whatever life gave me next, but I did not sit and think about what I wanted life to give me.
I have learned a couple of things since moving away from the aimless life.
- make lists of what you want
- imagine, take time to actually see the results in your mind
- be the project manager for your own life
- don’t like goals - then what about plans?
- don’t wallow - life will give you what you want
- days, months, and years can disappear without much happening
- be proud of yourself and your achievements
- encourage yourself
- be kind to yourself, and keep going after the rest
It is just too easy to sit back and watch others doing what they want while thinking that life is not available to you.
Before i lived in Vienna I could not imagine living there. I went there for a short holiday and I thought “I would like to live here for a while.” I went home and started planning for it. I could not do it on my own and needed the help of other people - so i asked them. there were some tough moments when I wondered if I would pull this off - but it became so much a part of me that eventually there was no surprise once I was there. Much to my surprise this led me onto other avenues - other great things. I feel blessed.
This helped me break out a negative mindset and move on to challenge other philosophy’s I had stuck in my head. I can do so much more than I can ever imagine - try it.
I am not one for quoting the Bible, however “ask and you shall receive.” Some things just are.
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Comment from Toussaint Celestin
Time: June 4, 2008, 1:05 am
What thoughtful and poignant advice. I’ve found that another way to look at the whole issue is to realize it’s OK to bloom at different times and that many of us only reach our prime in the 1/2nd half. But our pursuits are more than material - or at least we hope they will be and that we’re not forced to just subsist any which way we can.
Somehow one has to believe some of the “bill of goods’ all westerners are given - that deep down belief tat we’re entitled to having what we want out of life. And not thte other way around -which is what most of humanity was forced to work with.
I don’t feel successful at all. I get by. I live a good life that I think can always be better. But I find the best times are when I don’t take it so seriously … and hwne I’m grateful for whatever I have - I mean - Still kevech just about everyday - but before it would pain me to my soul and now I just do it more out of habit. I’m a perpetual complainer but in a good way.
Oh well, I’ve certainly digressed into giberish so I’ll get back to flipping thropugh TiVo.
Happy writings.
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