Scenario 1:  You follow a path for years and years, constantly striving to move forwards, to grow, and yet nothing seems quite so motivating anymore.  You just keep seeing the same-old, same-old fluff coming around and around.

Scenario 2: You’ve been working hard for what seems to be a really long time and you have achieved many of your goals.  Ahead of you, you can see your life path spread before you, and it is beautiful.  Suddenly, something happens that stops you in your tracks, and you know that you can’t go any further forward in that direction.

Scenario 3: You’ve been working hard, for a long time, to reach a specific goal.  It’s almost in your grasp.  In fact you have been offered to be guided into the next level, but suddenly you become fearful that you can’t do this role that you have been working towards.  You step backwards losing the opportunity, possibly forever.

What do you do?  How do you keep moving forward when the way ahead is no longer clear and well mapped out?  What’s next?

This would be one of the times that it can be a good idea to review where you are and where you want to go with your life.  The choices in front of you may seem hazy and ill-defined.  You may feel as if you are drifting or being sucked into chaos.  You may have hard things to deal with emotionally, mentally, or physically.  How do you turn things around?  And especially, how do you keep from falling apart?

It’s time to sit down and make conscious decisions.  It’s not time to allow yourself to just drift for very long. 

I recently hit such a point in my life.  There’s been a few of them, and I have approached each one differently, and as it often appeared at the time, disastrously.  These are the crossroad points, written into my Sacred Contract for this lifetime; choices that have defined me and given me the opportunity to choose how to move forward – or not. 

This time, I took an imaginary left-hand turn at the door that had closed in front of me, and I strode forward into an unknown future.  At first my focus was only on putting one foot in front of the other, but very soon I started looking down the path in the direction my life is now travelling.  What is in front of me?  Where is it going?  I don’t know yet, but I have faith, trust and respect travelling with me together with all the knowledge and experience I have gained thus far. 

‘Staying focused’ is the staff I carry with me.