Sometimes It Makes Sense
Scott Miker
Life is chaotic, unpredictable, random, and strange. But it is also systematic, predictable, obvious, and normal. It is the great paradox of life. It can be both at the same time.
This makes it difficult. How can we improve if we don’t know what to expect? What if we plan based on the most likely outcome and it doesn’t work out?
We don’t plan assuming everything will go according to our perfect plan. Life will throw some curve balls in there. But that doesn’t mean we traverse life’s peaks and valleys without any direction.
It would be great if we had a life GPS. Life could be detailed out with the right pace and the exact steps to take at the right time. It would be easy and simple yet take us to happiness and success without strife or stumbles.
Because there isn’t a GPS guide, too many of us give up and start to move along by default. We do what we must do. We do what is required or what we are pushed to do. But we can’t muster the motivation to do more because we don’t know for sure it will pay off.
I like to think of life less like a GPS unit guiding us, or just moving in whatever direction feels right in the moment, and more like someone with control, but not absolute control. Instead of getting pushed by life, we navigate life. Instead of a GPS we use our core values and inner sense of purpose and decency.
It becomes our compass. Long before the days of cell phones and Google Maps, we had to use our own sense of direction. This has since been lost for most, but it is still there if you search for it. If you look hard enough you can regain that sense of special awareness.
The same is true for your purpose in life. It is there if you are willing to seek it out. If you are willing to follow the path but still own your steps, you will discover the meaning behind those steps.
There is some faith involved, sure, but there is always planning and executing on your strategic vision. I encourage you to work towards that with all your efforts to find the part of you that comes alive and says, “Yep, this is it.” Unfortunately, that only arrives after directed action.