30 Mar NAVIGATING YOUR LIFE: IS THERE A FORMULA FOR SUCCESS?
Moss Jackson, PhD
Psychologist and Success Coach
Welcome back to Navigating Your Life, a series of written posts and videos focusing on living an exceptional life of success, accomplishment and satisfaction.
Is there a formula for success? Do you have an internal GPS system that helps to keep you focused and productive? Do you have a North Star that beckons you regardless of your situation and life circumstances to keep forging forward toward your Destiny? Are you even aware of your Destiny?
Or perhaps you are just stumbling through your day, unfocused and reactive to what life throws at you. You survive and fight through each day just hoping to make it back home for a few hours of relief before you start the next day. Or, worse yet, you experience your life as a Victim, someone who has been beaten down by life, feeling helpless and hopeless.
The fact is we all get through life. The starting point is birth and the end point is death. A key question that determines the quality of your life is how you are navigating your life. Are you going through your life as a Navigator, Survivor or Victim? In previous posts I have examined the nature and quality of each of these life styles. Feel free to look through these posts to learn more about them. They can all be found right here at www.navigatingforsuccess.com/blog.
YOUR LIFE FORMULA
Today I want to invite you to look at your life formula. Whether or not you are aware of it, every one of us has a life formula. Some of you have actually thought about and crafted a formula that helps you to create and evaluate your options and to allows you to choose the ones that offer the best opportunity to succeed. Others of you might not have developed a clear formula but are nevertheless directed by a more subtle or unconscious one. No one escapes the power of the Life Formula. You are either the Director of your life or you are being directed by your life. In either case there is a Director, for better or worse.
So what is your Life Formula? Perhaps it is one of the following:
- Get the other guy before he gets you.
- Live and let live.
- Turn the other cheek.
- Win at any cost.
- It is more blessed to give than to receive.
- If life is a bowl game of Cherries, then why am I still in the pits?
- We live and then we die so what’s the point?
- Do what you can and give the Devil its due.
- Life is for the taking.
- Etc, etc
IS THERE A BETTER WAY?
- How can I design a life worth living?
- How can I find the right Life Formula?
- What if I am stuck with the wrong one?
- Can I really change it to make my life better?
I think you can. It really is not that difficult. Start by taking my questionnaire “Are You a Navigator”. In my next post I will give you my Navigating Your Life Formula to look over. If you like it you can examine it more closely by reading my new book “I Didn’t Come To Say Goodbye” on Amazon.
So stay tuned. Your Life Formula is on the way. Just make sure to sign up for the blog series to get it. You have nothing to lose and, better yet, you may still get the exceptional life you deserve.