Where do you want to go?

It’s a tricky question because I’m not asking about an actual destination, but I’m thinking about a focus in life.

I’ve known people who dwelled on the negative in life. Everything was going to be bad.

Having grown up in an alcoholic and dysfunctional family, our natural tendency might be to worry, be anxious, and catasrophize a situation. We see the worst and prepare for it because that’s what we experienced in childhood.

But we’re adults now, and we have a choice.

Where do you want to go?

Do you want to live a life of happiness and joy, or do you always want to be looking for the problem that’s going to bring you down?

Our mindset and how we view life helps to create the opportunities we have in life.

If we do not push ourselves to grow and step outside of our comfort zone, then we are limiting our options.

Let’s think about that for a moment.

As the first person in my family to go to college, I didn’t know how to apply, where I’d get the money, and I nearly decided not to go at the last minute. I was short $1500 for the school that had accepted me and I decided to switch to another school. I couldn’t get advice from my family because they had never been there and at 17-years-old I didn’t have a lot of worldly knowledge myself.

But I took a risk in a direction that I trusted would be of benefit for me.

I’m happy to say that my risk turned into an opportunity.

Each day we have to make a choice of staying in our safe comfort zone or to take small risks to course correct and point us in the direction we want to go.

The big challenge is not knowing what direction to go.

Do your best, listen to yourself, write out the pros and cons, and head in a direction.

If it’s wrong, you’ll find that out and can change direction soon enough.

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