Drift To Direction: Taking Control of Your Mind

You Are Going Somewhere

You are always going somewhere.

Even when you are standing still.

Even when you have no plan.

Even when you say, “I don't know what I am doing with my life.”

You are going somewhere.

Your thoughts are taking you somewhere.

Your habits are taking you somewhere.

Your conversations are taking you somewhere.

Your fears are taking you somewhere.

Your repeated excuses are taking you somewhere.

Your attention is taking you somewhere.

And your decisions—or your refusal to make them—are constructing a destination.

The frightening thing is that you can travel for years without ever consciously choosing where you are going.

That is drift.

Drift is not necessarily laziness.

It is not always stupidity.

It is not always failure.

Sometimes drift looks remarkably successful.

A person can have a respectable career, a beautiful home, a busy schedule, social recognition and thousands of followers—and still have no idea who they are becoming.

They are moving.

But movement is not direction.

A ship can travel hundreds of kilometres and still arrive at the wrong destination.

The problem is not that the ship moved.

The problem is that it moved without a reliable course.

Human beings do the same thing.

We wake up.

We go to work.

We answer messages.

We scroll.

We worry.

We consume information.

We earn.

We spend.

We argue.

We sleep.

Then we repeat the cycle.

Years pass.

One birthday becomes another.

One decade quietly becomes another.

And eventually we ask a devastating question:

“Is this really my life?”

That question can break you.

But it can also awaken you.

This book begins with an uncomfortable proposition: