decide to change what we do and who we are. As long as our motivation for that change is love for others and a desire to do good, rather than anger and vindictiveness, we can accomplish great things, and we can experience dramatic changes in our lives. Many people avoid the experience of taking a self-assessment; perhaps they feel it would be too painful or they worry they will not like what they see or that it might be too late to change. To go through life without taking a look at the map might give us a sense of security: “If I don’t look at the map, I won’t know how lost I really am.” But such an attitude means we will also never end up where we want to end up. The other attitude—“I just can’t get there from here”—is also very likely untrue. We can almost always get there from here; we just have to be willing to pay the price. And the price is almost always making a change inside ourselves. Procrastination is the greatest enemy of success. The idea that we can always do it tomorrow keeps us from ever getting started. Tomorrow never comes! If you want to do it, do it today! Now is the time! Take a look at your map! Do not delay any longer. To wait any longer is wasting your life. Push the button. Flip the switch. Get on track with your life today!
to get back on track, and start out immediately in that direction. And although we can also easily get off track again just as fast, we can stay on track with our lives if we have some method of continual self-assessment. When we assess our lives and determine things are not how we would like them to be, we have a choice: we can blame everyone else, lament our circumstances, and wish everyone else would change; or we can take charge of the only thing that we really have control of—ourselves—and
given ourselves a wake-up call and decided to get pieces of our lives back on track. Those are great moments! Without them we could wander great distances from the road we want to be on without even realizing we are off the pavement. The wonderful thing about these moments of redirection is that no matter how far off track we have gotten, we usually do not have to take time traveling back to our desired road. All we have to do is press the button inside our souls, decide
Sincerely,
@FLVanderSloot
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