Have you ever driven somewhere and when you got there realized that you couldn’t remember very much about the drive? It’s happened to me before, and it’s usually a pretty terrifying realization. Think about it: you drove a metal vehicle weighing over a ton around people, buildings, and other vehicles with the potential to crash at any moment and upon arrival, you couldn’t remember much of it?
Of course, one of the reasons you didn’t remember much is because you did things that are second nature. Starting the car, buckling up, checking the mirrors. You probably drove the same route you normally take and because you know it like the back of your hand (and wait, who actually studies the back of their hand?), you don’t really notice the landmarks or even the names of the roads.
If you think about it, you probably couldn’t give very detailed directions to the places you frequent the most even though you know the way to those places better than most people. The reason for this? All those decisions you’ve made that have burned that path into your memory.
Sometimes in life we find ourselves asking, “How did I get here?” and the answer is that the decisions you made led you there. None of us end up anywhere by accident. All of us make decisions every single day that set the direction of our lives. The bad news? You decided yourself into the place you currently are. The better news? You can decide yourself out. Unfortunately, most of us prefer the choice to coast over the choice to correct.
[Tweet “Most of us prefer the choice to coast over the choice to correct.”]But what if you made the brave choice to choose differently? To blaze a new path? To point your life in a different direction? While none of us can know for certain, my guess is that you’d find yourself a week, or a month, or a year from now in a different place. A better place. A place that you would never have drifted into. A place so good that it had to be chosen one small choice at a time.
