WHERE NEXT?

How's your sense of direction today? Do you have a clear idea of where you're going? And why? Not where you think you ought to go, but where you're actually headed?

Have a look at the two core ingredients of Direction: Instinct and Information. It's highly likely that you're missing something in one or both of those areas.

Instinct inspires you: information supplies you with knowledge and character, and gives rise to action. Those two in conjunction give you impetus and direction.

If you are, as I have been, bogged down in the lethargy of depression, I found the solution was to choose a simple task that I could do right away, get up and do it. Anything complex will daunt you. Maybe just “getting up to your feet” is the first choice you need to make. Just do that much. Whatever you choose, do it awarefully.

Then take a moment to experience the satisfaction of completing something. Don't skip this step. Take nothing you accomplish for granted. Acknowledge yourself. Then choose your next action, and appreciate that. By the end of a few minutes, two miracles will have happened: 1) you will have accomplished something worth your while; and 2) you will have experienced, first-hand, the Ruthless Rule of Reality that you are the creator of your next moment: without you, it doesn't happen.

Repeating this exercise as often as you think of it creates a new habit – a habit of getting things accomplished. Does wonders for your self-esteem!

Tonight, just before you go to bed, write down the five most important things you need to accomplish now. Not only will you start tomorrow ready to go, but subconsciously, you’ll also be working on those five projects while you sleep. Then in the morning, knock those tasks out, starting from the least pleasant to the easiest.

Don’t let your time get snuffed out by what appears to be an innocent time-killer! Time wasted is time you can't put back.

[Got a Lot of Living to Do – Alvin Lee – 3:07]