A man was traveling and stopped at an intersection. He asked an elderly man, "Where does this road take me?" The elderly person asked, "Where do you want to go?" The man replied, "I'm not too sure". The elderly man said, "Then take any road. What difference does it make? Because when you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
Scenario 2:
You have all the eleven football players, enthusiastically charged up and ready to play the game, and then someone took the goal post away. What would happen to the game? There is nothing left. How do you keep score? How do you know you have arrived and how do you know who will win?
My Message:
Both these scenarios come down to one single message… "Enthusiasm without direction is like wildfire that leads to frustration". Would you ever sit in a train or a plane without knowing it's destination? The obvious answer is no. The same goes with our day to day lives... some of us go through life without having any specific direction. You probably have the correct skill-set honed, and the right philosophy with good core values, but where are you heading? If you don’t have the right direction planned out, you’ll simply wander aimlessly. It's sad to see people who have lived a large part of their careers only to discover it is not what they really wanted. Life is too short to be wandering without a definite purpose. Today is the time to define your goals and to examine the path you are taking. Make sure you are not one of those people who say "If only I could start over again." Life is fleeting by and there is no time to drift in the wind. Set your anchor and take control of your destiny.
May you have an awesome week.
Darren Zwiers
The Quote:
How can you get very far,
If you don’t know Who You Are?
How can you do what you ought,
If you don’t know What You’ve got?
And if you don’t know Which To Do
Of all the things in front of you,
Then what you’ll have when you are through
Is just a mess without a clue
Of all the best that can come true
If you know What and Which and Who.
- Winnie The Pooh
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