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Do you know where you’re going?
Imagine yourself in your car.
You’re driving down a long, barren road with flat empty fields on both sides.
You’ve been driving for many hours.
You’ve no idea where you’re headed.
You don’t know if you’ll ever reach your destination, because you never decided where you’re going.
You’re just driving with no plan.
No map.
Initially, you’re enjoying the feeling: windows open, wind in your hair, and the freedom of the open road.
Eventually, you begin to get frustrated, stressed and anxious by the uncertainty of not knowing where you are going.
Clearly, just getting busy (putting yourself in your car) and moving in any direction (driving forward) isn’t enough. It will take you somewhere, anywhere other than where you currently are, but is that what you really want?
Life – both personally and professionally – is the same.
You have to set a destination to reach it. If you don’t, you will eventually run out of gas along the side of the road.
And when you run out of gas, will that destination be a better place to be — or a place you want to be?
If you aren’t setting a destination, how will you be able to chart the path that will get you there, measure your progress, or know when you’ve arrived?
