Standing At the Crossroads of Your Life

At some point, everyone comes to the fork in the road. It's the time in your life when you can either stay on the known but unfulfilling path or veer off and follow your passions on an unfamiliar road. Unfortunately far too often, when people are faced with this decision they stick to the "devil that they know," rather than believe that they deserve more and better.

The moment of truth for most of us isn't usually earth shattering ---we don't learn that our husband has been having a torrid affair or that our six figure job is about to be eliminated. Most of us simply creep slowly and mindlessly to our personal crossroads. It starts as a nagging dissatisfaction, the thought that your life isn't where you would like it to be. You wonder why you are not happier with your relationship, your job or all of the accomplishments and things that you have on your tally sheet. It's easy to place these inconvenient thoughts on the back burner as you muddle through your daily routine, that is until something hits you. That something is a message from your inner consciousness, God, The Divine, The Universe, whatever you wish to call it. Spoken through a book, a movie, a newspaper/magazine article or a sermon,it speaks directly to your individual situation. That message either awakens you to what is REALLY possible for your life or it provides you with a tangible option. The problem is that most of us choose to ignore the message.

It's easier to pretend you didn't get the message because it calls for you to do something different without a guarantee of instant success. That is the rub, you know that your current path will net you more comfortable mediocrity, but doing something different, in the name of following our bliss, could be a bust (in the short term). In order to seek out better, you have to be willing to let go of what you have now. When you stand at the crossroads of your life, your choice of a path is determined by your faith. Not necessarily faith in the religious sense, but faith in yourself. You have to believe that if you follow your heart, you will be rewarded emotionally, spiritually and materially. Following your heart doesn't mean going off half-cocked, but it does mean recognizing that you must take a different road and then preparing yourself for the journey.

This morning I read about Michelle Nihei, a Ph.D who left her prestigious faculty position at Johns Hopkins to become a horse trainer and Keith Miller, a former professional football player who now sings with the Metropolitan Opera. There are no similarities between these two people except that they both came to a place where their passions led them to radically different life courses. They left the security of their former lives for the opportunity to pursue their passions. Even if these people are not successful by conventional standards, their lives are probably exponentially richer and happier.

So are you looking at a fork in the road right now? Will you stay put? OR Will you at least implement a plan so that you can step onto the new path? BELIEVE.


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