It is often said that we can choose our own destiny. That we get to choose our own path and determine the outcome of our lives. I absolutely believe this and I also think that as humans, it is some of the best news we can have about our lives. To know that we are in control. That our goals in life can be set by us and achieved by us.
If you sat down today and wrote an autobiography would you end the story when you got to today? What if you had to finish it? What if you had to determine how the book ended? What would you write about tomorrow? Would it be different than what you will actually do tomorrow? If so, then maybe you need a change. If you were writing your own story and you had to start today and end with you reaching your goals, how would you write tomorrow? How would you write next week, next month, next year? What steps would you have to start taking to reach that goal that you know you are going to end on? How long will it take you? What sacrifices will you have to make?
You probably hear people say all the time to write down a goal and write down the steps you need to take. Have you ever actually stopped and thought about it like a story? What’s the next chapter? When do you start seeing that goal become a reality? Maybe you should do that. Play that story out in your head. Where are you going and what is it going to take you to get there? What’s your next step? If this was a book you were reading and you knew how it started and you knew how it ended what do you think the middle would be like? You already know where you’re at figure out where you want to be and start writing your middle.