For just a moment imagine getting into your car and driving off with no idea of where you are going? No map? No destination?
You have no clear idea on where you are going or what it will be like when you get there.
You drive all day until you become too tired to keep going, yet still hoping to get somewhere?
You finally stop, turn around exhausted, head for home with plans to keep going again all day tomorrow.
Day after day you head out with the hope you will eventually arrive where you want to be.
The fact is you will never ever stop striving and driving because you have no destination.
Sounds crazy doesn’t it.
Yet every time we head off into our day and into our week without a plan, we are on that drive that never ends.
Without taking the time, before our week begins, to get clear on where we want to be by the weeks end, how will we know what to do? What to celebrate? When to stop?
We are at the mercy of other peoples requests and urgencies.
Unless we decide on what is important for us to achieve, we will continue to do, do, do, and never know if what we are doing is getting us any closer to what we want and how we want to feel.
End this crazy cycle today.
Get clear on where you want to be, what you want to get done and how you want to feel.
Plan your week now before it begins and schedule your priorities each day.
Now turn the key in the ignition, steer your life towards fabulous and prepare to celebrate when you arrive.
What a great way to get people thinking about what’s important. And it’s so true — we seem to always be in a hurry to get … where? No idea.
I discovered a great book a few years ago that opened my eyes to the fact that I was driving without a destination. The first “Finding Your North Star” was written by Martha Beck and it’s awesome. The second is called “Wishcraft” and it was written over 30 years ago by Barbara Sher. But still totally relevant and eye-opening.
Suzanne, thanks for the book recommendations they both sound like something I would enjoy. Certainly part of my slowing down is gettign clear o where I want to be before I head out.
This is exactly how I feel about my blog right now! I know I need a rebrand and I even have a gut feel for the direction but the little details I am struggling with! But if I don’t start working on it, I will end up someplace that I didn’t plan on being.
Michelle, so so true. unless you decide where you wnat to go with your blog the current will take you someplace else. Once you decide on the destination the little details will begin to emerge. Good Luck, this is exciting stuff
This is the first summer since 2002 that I am not fully consumed by Summer Swim Club. That was all consuming – the practices, swim meets and politics. Life really was just a case of go go go. No planning other than making sure I had enough buns and veggies for the snacks and lunches at meets. Now that I’m out of it and am actually focussing on goals for myself I am noticing a HUGE difference. Huge.
Insightful post today Karen!
No Summer Swim Club, wowzas. This will be a different Summer for you.