Have you ever looked back and wondered how you got here? I don’t mean in the biological sense; I mean the choices you’ve made that have brought you to today.
I look back and only see a series of accidents, which makes me wonder whether it was fate or choice. When I decided that music wouldn’t be my career, the only thing I could think of that I loved was writing. However, I saw no pathway for how to turn that passion to a livelihood.
(Maybe I should have spoken with Richard Eisenberg…haha!)
As I approached college, I signed up as a business major (probably because I knew that the sciences were way too complex for me). After speaking with a friend of my father, who was a CPA, he encouraged me to become an accountant.
OK…done.
I had no idea what that was or whether it was something I would be good at or even cared about. But without any other ideas, that was my path.
I could continue my story about all the accidents that led me to financial life planning… but you get the gist. It was as if I was guided, not by clear choices or decisions, but by some unseen hand that prodded me forward.
Here I am in my Chapter X, and I am trying to be more thoughtful about my next steps and the choices I make. But honestly, my guess is the same powers that brought me here is still devilishly at work.
How about you? Do you make conscious, well-thought-out plans or do you let the Universe lead you?
