How To Know You're Truly On The Right Path
The Two Ways To Tell And Two Secrets About The Advice Of "Self-Help Gurus"
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How To Know You're Truly On The Right Path
The Two Ways To Tell And Two Secrets About The Advice Of "Self-Help Gurus"
Most People Struggle Knowing Whether They Are On The Right Path.
Of Course, some people are "Very" Sure they are on the Wrong Path.
That is Easy Enough to Know.
You Wake Up Dreading Your Entire Day.
You Think About Doing Anything Except What You're Doing.
Burnout Becomes the Norm because You Despise Everything You're Doing on the Current Path.
That is when You Know, For Certain, You're on the Wrong Path...
Hopefully, You're Looking for the Right Path if this is You Today.
However, there are Others Who Struggle in a Different Way.
They are On a Path...
It is a Good Path.
They Like the What they are Doing.
It Makes them Happy.
They Could See Themselves Continuing on that Path...
Maybe Forever.
Yet...
There are Other Paths that are Available.
Some of them are Fascinating with Different Types of Potential.
It Would be Different, but Sometimes Different is Good.
Plus...
Even though they Like, or Even Love, their Current Work...
They Still have Doubts...
They Still have Struggles...
They Still have All the Emotions that We, as Humans, Have...
Emotions which You Will Face...
On Any Path that You Choose...
Even When You're Truly on the Right Path.
Which is Made Even More Difficult by Sustained Societal Myths that are Consistently Perpetuated...
Despite what Most of the "Self-Help Gurus" Say...
Telling Others Lies like, "If You Love What You Do, You'll Never Work A Day In Your Life," and "You'll Just Know It When It Is Right"...
Most "Self-Help Gurus", themselves, Frequently Quit Their Paths because they Fail to Truly Know what the "Right Path" is for them.
If I had a Penny for Every "Self-Help Guru" who Talked about the "Right Path" and Quit their Own Path because it was Wrong for Them, I'd Easily have a Million Dollars.
This puts So Many People in this Horrible State of Limbo...
Where they "Could" Go Down Other Paths...
But Are Not Sure if they "Should"...
Because They Might Regret Leaving their Current Path.
It is a Bit of a Conundrum...
Wondering if You're Truly on the Right Path Now...
Or Whether You Should Seek Something Else that is, Perhaps, Truly the Right Path for You.
However...
There are Some Indicators to Help You Know if You're Truly On the Right Path.
Specifically, Two Indicators are Extremely Helpful in Understanding Whether You're on the Right Path.
The First has to Do with Your Time "Outside" of Whatever You're Questioning on the Path.
Even when You're Doing Other Things...
Especially if they are Other Things You Deeply Enjoy Doing...
Do You Still Think About Getting Back To Whatever You're Doing in a Positive Light?
Not in a "Oh, if I Do Not Do XYZ there will be Some Consequence" sort of Way...
Rather, more of a "Oh! When I Get Back, I think I am Going to Do ABC because I Think that is Going to be Helpful" sort of Way.
When We are Truly on the Right Path...
That Path will Consume Much of Our Thoughts...
But in an Extremely Positive Manner.
This is a Natural Part of Peak Performance.
Our Brains begin to Rewire Themselves in a Way that Constantly becomes Captivated and Hooked by the Path We're On.
At a Subconscious Level, Your Brain Does Really "Stop" Thinking About the Path...
And Subconsciously You often Gain New Ideas "For" that Path.
If this Happens...
Especially when You're Doing Other Things You Also Enjoy...
It is a Great Indicator that You're on the Right Path.
What is the Second Way of Knowing You're Truly on the Right Path?
What Do You Do On Your Worst Days?
When the Doubts and Struggles hit You the Worst?
When Fear Comes Scratching at the Door?
When the Pain of Failure Stings at Its Worst?
When You Feel Like You've Been Kicked into the Dirt and Mud?
On Those Days...
Ask Yourself...
Do You Still Want To Do It?
The Reality is that "Those" Days...
Happen on "Every" Path.
They are Unavoidable.
But...
If You Experience These...
Yet Still Want to Stay On The Path?
Especially When You have that Desire to Go Back on the Absolute Worst Days?
When You are Beat Down but Desire to Get Back Up and Continue Forth?
Then You Know that You're Truly On the Right Path.
But there is One More Thing to Consider...
One that the "Self-Help Gurus" Frequently Fail to Discuss or Know...
The "Right" Path...
Can Change Over Time.
Many People Talk about the "Right" Path as if it is some form of Eternal Contract...
But that is Extremely Rare for that Vast Majority of People, and It is Absolutely Normal for You to Be on the Right Path "For Now".
New Careers Come Into Existence.
New Discoveries are Made.
New Opportunities Become Available to Us Over Time.
Sometimes, People Design Entirely New Paths Themselves, which are Unlike Anything the World has Ever Seen.
Those Types of Paths...
Almost Always Unfold Over Time by Following Different "Right" Paths at Different "Right" Times.
Even in My Own Career, I can Tell You that I have Been on Both the "Wrong" Path and the "Right" Path for that Time.
When I was doing Accounting Work, Despite being Incredibly Good at my Job...
It was Absolutely the Wrong Path for Me.
I am Grateful for that Experience, but it was Not Right for Me to Pursue.
But as a Leadership Coach?
That was Absolutely the Right Path for Me...
At the Time that I Began It.
As I Discovered More about the Leadership Development Industry, however, I Knew that the Right Path began to Change.
That is Why I Began to Delve into Psychophysiology.
That is Why I Began to use My Knowledge in Psychophysiology to Design Sageship.
The Right Path began to Change and Alter.
It was Not that Being a Leadership Coach was Ever the "Wrong" Path...
It was that the "Right" Path Deviated into a New Direction that I Could Never have Expected or Anticipated...
Until the Moment that I was at the Crossroads.
Even as I Write This Article, I Find Myself at a New Crossroads within My Path...
One which will Strengthen my Career as a Sageship Coach...
But will Simultaneously Expand My Opportunities to Help Others.
A Path I was Not Truly Aware of Until it was There in Front of Me.
The Truth About the "Right" Path is that it May be a Series of Right "Paths" Along a Grand Journey.
Yes, You May be on the "Right" Path Now...
And Yes, the "Right" Path May Also Change.
Both of these are Possible and Can Be Good.
Even Wonderful.
You Do Not Need to Be on a Singular Path Forever...
And It is Ok if the Right Path Changes Along the Journey.
As Humans, We have the Ability to Adapt, Change, and Grow.
Just as We Can Do These...
So Too Can Our "Right" Path Adapt, Change, and Grow.
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Now, there are Some Other Ways to Tell if You’re on the Right Path which have More to Do with Psychophysiology.
Really, you have to Consider whether these happen “Naturally”.
Most Parts of Our Psychophysiology can Be Trained to be Improved…
But if You’re on the Right Path…
These Tend to Happen More Naturally without Trying.
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