How To Get Back On Track

We’ve all heard the phrase “midlife crisis”, but what is it? Experts say another name for midlife crisis is “achievement-aspiration gap”. Leif Smith (PersonalBestConsulting.com) explains achievement

-aspiration gap is the difference between what you’ve actually accomplished and what you originally set out to do.

Whether it’s a midlife crisis or a crisis occurring at any point in your life, anytime you make excuses for the gap… its likely that the gap will get wider. Smith says one way to get yourself on track is to ask yourself this question: Am I actively pursuing that which makes me happy?

What a great question. In fact I have found its great questions that really help clean the cob webs… to Stay On Track.

Check out this quote: “It is paradoxical but profoundly true that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself, but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.” -Arnold Toybee

Is what I am doing/pursuing in line with my “real goals”? (financially, spiritually, family,

physically, mentally, community and social areas of the balancing act)

So I don’t beat myself up… I am reminded that “It’s Progress… not perfection” that counts. A quick way to having a look at where I have come from and where I want to go… is by asking myself “What are 2 things I am doing right and 2 things I need to work on in my life?

-Am I being a good/great parent?

-Am I being a good/great husband?

-Am I being responsible with finances?

-Am I a giving person with time/money?

-Am I looking after my body with what I eat & my exercise program?

-Am I happy with my spiritual life, with reading and prayer time?

-Am I a good friend?

-Do I live a balanced life…?

-Am I focusing on my own life or am I looking over my shoulder to see what others have and what others are doing?

-What is my real purpose in doing what I do

-Have I taken a “Time Out” recently to re-evaluate my real purpose in life… in doing what I do

If you have ever been de-railed… sometime all it takes is a few great questions to get you back “On Track”