What would happen if you lived your life by design rather than by default? What would happen if you took the time to choose what you wanted in life, rather than letting life choose it for you?
I am sure many of you know people who are living their lives on autopilot. They get up in the morning, get ready to go to work, drive to work using the same route, do their daily work tasks, drive home from work using the same route as before, eat dinner, perhaps play with the kids, watch TV, and then go to bed. The next morning it starts all over again. Before you know it, weeks have gone by, months, and then years.
Sometimes a life crisis happens, a severe accident, a life-threatening illness, the death of a loved one, or a mid-life crisis, and these people who have been on autopilot for so many years suddenly wake-up and take a good look at the lives they have been living. They may realize that they have been ‘human doings’ rather than ‘human beings,’ living their lives for everyone and everything other than themselves.
What is ironic about this situation is that whether we like it or not, we are the authors of our own lives. Everything that we have right now is the RESULT of the choices and decisions we have made along the way, even if our choices were made on autopilot or chosen according to some sort of ‘should,’ ‘could,’ or ‘ought to.’ We can too easily get sucked into external expectations and the idea of our own personal and authentic life slips away.
A life crisis is not necessary for making positive changes in your life. Take a good hard look at your life right now and ask yourself:
“If I am not the one in the driver’s seat, then who or what is?”
Living your life in the driver’s seat means that you know what you want and what is most important to you. You live a balanced and fulfilling life filled with purpose and meaning. You have taken the time to create an authentic, vibrant, and happy life, because if you don’t take the time to choose what you want, life will choose it for you.
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