My path

I was out walking today, amidst the beautiful autumn colours and in woods filled with birdsong and red & white toadstools straight out of a movie set.  I never cease to be amazed by how easy it is to miss your path.  We navigated very accurately for 98% of the route but twice we managed to not see a path we need to take.  You take the what seems like the obvious and right path and as you walk along you start to realise that you are not getting the right feedback, not seeing the right signs.  Do you back-track and hope to spot what you have missed or do you carry on and adjust your bearing to try and reconnect with your route?  It is always tough to make that call.

For me, Life is like this too.  You think that you know where you are headed and then slowly you become aware that things aren’t ‘on track’.  Sometimes these little diversions can be very fruitful, and I often feel that the Universe steers us into these places; other times we are just plain lost, the trouble is that we can’t always tell the difference!

I help people construct plans and recognise their importance, but they only take us so far and there is definitely a value in reacting to what we find before us and capitalising on it.  I think knowing when we are ‘on track’ is one of the biggest challenges.  How do you know?

“There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same”   Chinese Proverbs

“Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge”   Audre Lorde

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