You wouldn’t hop in your car without a destination (or at least a general direction) in mind. Try setting your GPS to “somewhere” and you will find yourself driving in circles around the same old obstacles until you run out of gas.
Yet, this is what we do every day when we have no vision, no purpose, no plan. Our life GPS is set on “someday”. It’s a day that is as elusive as the 8th day of the week.
Mapping your life purpose and goals is like a road trip. You need to know where you are starting from and where you are going. Set your mile markers so you don’t get lost along the way.
You hear that voice- it’s inside your head- and it tells you that you are not good enough, smart enough, or capable enough. That voice seems to focus on every mistake you have made.
Finding your purpose, where you fit, when starting over in a new season of life can be challenging. Remember, seasons are cyclical not a straight line or dead end.
We ALL have blind spots: we just don’t see them. The nature of a blind spot is that you can’t see them though others can.
We feel that we cannot be ourselves because we fear rejection. The desire to fit in can cause us to conform to what we think is expected.
Pablo Picasso says the meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. I believe this is an ongoing process.
On a Saturday afternoon, you decide to finally clean up the stacks of notebooks, journals, and piles of paper on your bookcase. The ones you put there “just for now until I can get to them”.