GPS Your Life, You Have The Freedom to Choose Happiness

Every morning when we get up, we have the opportunity to repeat the pitfalls of yesterday, or to start anew. The current state of our life is not a coincidence; it is the refined result of a lifetime of choices. This moment is the culmination of every decision, every experience, every aspect of our life. However, there is no requirement that tomorrow needs to look anything like today. If we aren’t happy, we can change it. If you aren’t satisfied, you can change it.

If you don’t change your ways, you will end up in exactly the direction you are headed.

Wouldn’t it be great if we had a GPS for our life that gave us play by play directions: turn left, go straight, slow down, turn around, STOP, go 100 miles, etc. Well in fact we do, although the interface is not traditional, it is intuitive. For those of us with a plan or an ideal destination for our life, we map ourselves to it as if we were programming a human GPS. We input our destination and instantly we are mapped the shortest route to get there. We are given directions because certain elements of life are very linear: if you want to be a lawyer, you need to go to law school. If you want to become a doctor, you need to go to medical school, complete your residency, choose a specialty, etc. If you want to become a fireman, police officer, teacher, or any other profession – there is path for that objective. Do you want to learn to speak Spanish, ride a bike, or start a business – it all starts somewhere with action and intention. It can be difficult to rationally segment and itemize our biggest dreams, our fondest desires. However, if don’t program ourselves for success and take action toward our refined objective – we will never get there.

Regardless of whether we are detoured or delayed, which we absolutely will be, we must continue to follow our path and stay clear on our purpose and desired destination. The larger problem tends to be ensuring that the destination itself is consistent with our goals in life, with our life purpose. If at some point we realize that our destination is not consistent with our dreams or our purpose in life, contrary to popular belief – we can change it. Just because we pre-programmed our destination does not mean that it cannot be altered or transformed. We may feel that the current state of our lives is a pre-destined inevitability, but in reality we have the freedom to choose in almost every manner or method imaginable.

Do you want to change your life? Simply re-program your destination and allow your life to re-calculate, or perhaps more aptly re-calibrate itself.

Your current situation in life, your present moment if you will, is the sum total of your entire life to date. If you are unhappy with it, don’t expect it to change overnight unless you are willing to get clear on your objective, take action toward your goal, and if necessary manage the potential fallout. If you are traveling down the highway at 75MPH and you decide to change course, you may need to wait until the next exit, or perhaps continue until you reach the next highway. The key here is to have clarity around your ideal destination, and to follow the right path to get there. Don’t give up! – as they say, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. You cannot win the lottery if you don’t buy a ticket, and you will never get to your destination if you do not first get clear on your intention and take action in the direction of your dreams.