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1. If You Don’t Know Where You Are Going

2. Trust and Flow with Life

3. A Sense of Direction and Purpose

No doubt you’ve heard the old notion of goal-setting: “If you don't know where you're going you'll probably end up somewhere else.” Anna Miller-Tiedeman, PhD. ruefully addresses this adage with “however, even if you do know where you're going, most likely, you'll still end up somewhere else.” Haven’t we all experienced the truth of this?

With the New Year upon us many people pressure themselves to set goals and make New Year’s Resolutions or, having had too many “failed” past attempts ignore these New Year traditions. There is a path between these two extremes that is less stressful and beneficial to our well-being. This is the path of aspiring to be our best in each moment; of having clear, positive intentions and of seeing everything as our lifework.

Goals and resolutions we white-knuckle and self-will to accomplish cause us stress. When we do not meet these goals and deadlines our self-esteem and well-being can suffer. Instead we can begin this New Year afresh with heart-felt positive intentions rather than hard-driven goals. We can aspire to do and be much in this New Year AND take steps to do so as we are nudged, inspired and called.

In this approach to life we trust and flow with Life, God, and the Universe. Certainly, there is room in this philosophy for goals and planning if that is your style. However, if our plans do not work out can we trust life and view this change in our plans as part of our lifework… as part of the Divine Design?

I have clearly seen when I push and hurry myself to get something done (or find an answer) the work often becomes hard, forced and much goes awry. Stymied then, I have learned to let go knowing I can live with whatever outcome. Wondrously, later - maybe a day or two or more - a little urge, a wee inspiration bubbles up within me and I effortlessly go do the very thing which had me stymied.

So if you don’t know where you are going that is OK. Perhaps this New Year we might be better served aspiring to be ok with uncertainty and not knowing; following our hunches and inspirations; and trusting our path is unfolding before us even though we cannot see the end destination.

Of course, this does not mean simply sitting on the couch waiting for manna from heaven to direct us. We also must be actively seeking and asking. “Seek and ye shall find. Ask and ye shall receive.”

One of the best ways to get a sense of our direction, unique purpose or potential is to deeply value and apply our strengths. Most people become blank when I ask them what their greatest strengths and talents are. As Abraham Maslow writes we have a “kind of resistance, a denying of our best side, of our talents, of our finest impulses, of our highest potentialities, of our creativeness.”

Robert Cooper, PhD., and Ayman Sawaf proclaim in “Executive EQ” that to find our purpose in life “requires, first and foremost, coming to know our talents and aligning them in service of our calling in life.” Their research suggests we ask ourselves, “What specifically, are my greatest strengths and talents? In truth, every one of us can do one or two things better than any other ten thousand people.”

Let us ponder this question and this truth; and also, ask those who are near and dear to us – “What do I do better than any other ten thousand people?” Herein is the seed we need to own, value, and cherish our greatest talents and to grow the work we love. What a wondrous New Year’s gift to ourselves.

So my friends, may you truly come to own and value your precious, God-given talents this New Year.

Blessings of peace, health and love to you and your loved ones.

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