Stop and Evaluate where you are going

One of the biggest favours you can do yourself in life is to STOP and take the time to evaluate. 

Look at where you are, where you have been and where you are headed.

If you remain on the current course with no adjustments, are you happy with where it is taking you?

Too often, people blindly push forward without taking the time to evaluate their course. This is like driving on the road aimlessly, hoping that 'somehow' you will reach your destination.

Life is far too short to push forward blindly, not taking the time to purposefully look at yourself and your course. If you do not evaluate, you will soon find life passes you by and you have 'lived without really having lived' and have not enjoyed many of the things you would like to have experienced.

I encourage you to take the time to ponder you life and to ask yourself questions like the following:

Why am I where I am?

Am I where I wanted to be?

If not - why not? What got me where I am?

What is needed to get me where I want to be?

These are not just questions to ask lightly, nor are they to be answered quickly without proper thought.

Running fast, heading no where?

There is a big difference in life between putting in lots of effort and actually making progress.

Many people put in lots of effort, but when they take the time to look back and evaluate they have to honestly conclude that they have been very much like a hamster running on his wheel - running fast but going no where!

Life can often feel like a never ending circle - going round and round, soon becoming familiar with the scenes you are going through, feeling like, 'I have seen this before'. This circle experience in life is more common they we would like to admit, and seems to often become an unbreakable cycle that no matter what you do, life seems to keep cycling around.

Often relationships are like that. People leave one relationship only to find the next one follows a similar cycle

Jobs can seem the same. We push forward feeling like we are 'progressing onwards and upwards' only to realise we are running around in the same old circle again

 The good news is that the cycle IS breakable. You do not have to move in endless circles that never seem to progress, but you need to be willing to take an honest look at some things about yourself and also to make some changes.

The question is: 
Are you willing to take an honest look at yourself and do what is necessary to change the cycle?

I cannot tell you 'what you must do' becasue for everyone it is different. People's circumstances are different, but it starts with taking an honest look, instead of just 'steaming forward' hoping things will change.

I hope this short article provokes your thinking