A New Path

Even for those of us who enjoy change and new challenges, it can be easy to slip into comfortable routines because they are just that…comfortable. Most of the time life itself provides enough to keep us learning new things that stimulates the mind and keeps it healthy. Sometimes, however, we need to push ourselves beyond our comfort zone to find a new path that is less familiar.

In beginning something new there is usually a feeling of anxiety mixed with excitement. If we wait to begin until we feel prepared, we may never start at all. To accomplish anything of meaning in this life we need to be willing to learn as we go. We start with a plan of course, but it is inevitable that things will veer off-course and force us to take a detour from what we initially imagined. We need to be flexible and stay open to new ideas that may work out much better than we first anticipated.

If we are intent to stay with only our initial plan, we may miss out on innovative ideas and creative sidelines that will enhance our journey/project. It is sort of like the difference between being stubborn and being determined. Stubbornness says, “I’m going to keep doing it this way, even if I’m wrong.” Determination says, “I’m going to keep doing this, even if it’s hard.”

When we become so set in our ways that only one way works, we will keep doing it that way because we are afraid of doing it differently. If we continue in stubbornness, we will continue making the same mistakes over and over again, never learning a new way. If instead we develop a healthy determination, we will keep looking for better ways to do something so the end result will have the best possible outcome.

The key is to keep looking for answers to the problems that arise instead of giving up in helpless dismay. There may be a time of waiting for a solution, but it is an active waiting in trying each key till the one that fits the lock is found. It is during this “unknown” time that many people quit, or fight to make the old way work. Patient determination will reveal the right way.

Often there is one step we know how to take. While we are doing it, the next new path may reveal itself or at the very least, lead us in the right direction. We need to stay alert for the clues that come across our path, giving us glimpses into the big picture…the ultimate goal/purpose in what we are doing.

This new path might surprise even us who think we knew what it should look like. We may come to see things in a whole new way that we would have missed out on if we had stayed in our old ways of thinking. We need to let go of the ways that don’t work anymore, and allow the new to lead us into a better life.

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