Our Life Journey....

What matters most in our life? Are we on target? Are we on track regarding what matters most?

The truth is, we're all off track most of the time, all of us - every individual, family, organization or international flight to Rome. Just realizing this is a significant step. But, for many of us, the feeling of being off track brings with it discouragement and despair. It needn't and shouldn't be so depressing. Knowing we're off track is really an invitation to realign ourselves with true north (principles) and recommit ourselves to our destination.

Remember, our journey as an individual, team or organization is like the flight of an airplane. Before the planes take off, the pilots file a flight plan. They know exactly where they're going. But during the course of the flight, wind, rain, turbulence, air traffic, human error and other factors act upon the plane. They move that plane slightly in different directions so that most of the time it is not even on the prescribed flight path. But barring anything too major, the plane will still arrive at its destination.

Now how does that happen? During the flight, the pilots receive constant feedback. They receive information from instruments that read the environment, control towers, other airplanes - even sometimes from the stars. And based on that feedback, they make adjustments so that time and time again, they return to the original plan.

Our life journey is just the same as the flight of an airplane. We are the pilot and we determine the flight plane (our dreams or life's target) and we know exactly where we want to go. Along the journey, we may facing some difficulties, obstacles which may discourage, demotivate or disturbing our main priority as targeted earlier. No matter how, remember that modeling, pathfinding, aligning and empowering ourselves along our life journey sure will bring us back on track to our life's target :)

(Source: The 8th Habit From Effectiveness to Greatness)