It is quite amazing how many people go through their lives with very little thought as to where they are heading with it. They let life happen to them and not make things happen in their lives.
Most people trudge along with little or no quality of life, with a certain purposelessness. Take a good look at those close to you, and even at yourself, and you’ll see what I mean.
The lyrics of Diana Ross’s Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To) capture this quite well:
Do you know where you’re going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to? Do you know?
Do you get what you’re hoping for?
When you look behind you there’s no open doors
What are you hoping for?
Do you know?
It is important to stop and do a self-appraisal from time to time to determine where you are going to in your life and save yourself from drifting along.
- Where are you going to?
- What is life trying to teach you?
- Are you learning these lessons and using them to shape your future direction?
- What are you hoping to achieve?
- Are you day dreaming or taking positive steps to achieve your goals?
- When you look back, are you progressing steadily along your chosen path?
It is not easy to stop and look at one’s life. It is even more difficult to face up to the reasons why one’s life may have no purpose or is ‘in a mess’. The lack of unbiased, helpful and friendly advice makes this even more difficult. Sometimes we need someone to talk to about our problems. It is good to discuss things with others, using them as sounding boards, and sources of inspiration and encouragement. But at the end of the day you have to solve your problems by yourself by having recourse to your innermost being. You are the only person who knows everything about yourself and this makes you the only person qualified to find the right solution for your problems.
You are the only person to whom your problems matter the most. You have to look at your life and find a direction and purpose for it.