Recalculating…

I read a great passage this week about living your life in a way similar to your GPS prompts. When you make a wrong turn, go past the street, stop for a break or just choose a different road the GPS simply recalculates. There is no prerecorded message about the mistake or questions as to why the set route was adjusted or criticism of your ability to follow directions.  Just a quick change in plan, an alternate route, a different turn.  The idea was that we sometimes spend so much time berating ourselves when we lose our way or make a mistake.  Sometimes we get a little hesitant and fearful not wanting to repeat a mistake or get further embroiled in something that is somewhere we did not intend to go.  The GPS would teach us that without judgement or analysis a different route, goal, expectation or journey can be plotted.  Without being overly judgmental or emotional, we can simply look at what options are now before us to reach the destination and line up those.  To simply recalculate also means that we admit that we made the wrong turn or different route and that it is not working or no longer getting us to where we want to be. We need to get clear on the destination, refine the goal, see clearly where we want to be headed and map it out. There are a lot of streets and routes, and countless options that can get us to our destination.