Do you ever stop and think, “How’d I get here?” I think that many of us at times have done this. We find ourselves in a situation that confuses us, it is not in alignment with where we had intended to go, where we intended to be, but, here we are, wondering how’d we get here.

So often our intentions seem to differ from our situations, we had envisioned things to be different then they are, and now we find ourselves debating whether or not we made the right decision. Let me tell you that you should never doubt a decision that you have made. It is the decision that we make that help to form us into the unique individual that we are. Oh, and there is really nothing we can do about a decision that we made in the past, we just have to deal with the reality of the decision and move on. Hopefully, we have taken some time to reflect on the decision that we made, right or wrong, and learn from it. John Maxwell is quoted, “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” Another thought to keep in mind is that “A mistake is not a failure; a mistake is just another way of doing something… something that didn’t work the way we intended it to work.” Some of the best inventions can be traced back to something that could have been considered a mistake, we all are familiar with 3M’s Post-It-Note.

Well, where am I going with this? Every step we take is a step that led us to where we are right now. We may have intended to travel one path, but due to circumstances, we wound up on a different path. Who knows, the paths may converge further along, but notwithstanding, we are on the path we are on and we need to make the best of it. Thing about traveling by car, the windshield is much larger than the rear-view mirror, this is because we need to pay attention more to where we are heading than to worry about where we have been. If we spend all of our time looking back and only a small amount of time looking forward, we may miss some of the most beautiful and wonderful things along the way.

Don’t concern yourself with how you got to where you are, just know that it was the step that were taken that led you here, and don’t worry yourself with why you are here, because you are here, and here is where we can plan and start the next phase of our journey to success.