Five Obvious Signs You're On The Wrong Path ... and How To Course-Correct!

A Response to "Woo", to Woo You Toward Your Best You.

{This post is a quick answer to someone’s very "woo" essay, "You'll End Up Where You Need To Be," which included “five obvious signs the universe sends when you're on the wrong path.” This started out as a response post. Then it turned into … well, this!}

Five Obvious Signs The Universe Sends When You're On The Wrong Path:

1. Your actions move you away from your goals and values.

2. Action seems fraught with danger and uncertainty; inaction brings comfort.

3. You avoid (or abandon) the best among your friends and family.

4. Entertainment, games, food, sex and romance become distractions and an escape, not celebrations and inspirations.

5. You avoid looking in the mirror.

Five Steps to Get Back on The Right Path:

1. Concretize your goals and values.

To externalize them is to make them real, to make them objective. No, not with a phone or computer. Write them down. On paper. With a pen or pencil. Write.

2. Project your worst and your best case scenarios.

Know your outcomes. What will happen if everything goes right? And if everything goes awry, what's the worst that can happen (and how will you bounce back)?

3. Embrace those who wish you well.

Reach out to those who can help you achieve your goals. Be willing to be judged, taught, advised, coached, mentored, inspired. And always be ready to be loved.

4. Choose optional values which are empowering, inspirational, energizing, elevating.

Choose the good.

5. Look in the mirror ... literally, go to the mirror and look ... and see the amazing person you are.

No one else holds your exact value hierarchy ... your tastes, your goals, your preferences, your style, your desires, your judgments, your specific wants and needs.

In your values, if not yet in your achievements, you are literally The Best Person In The World.

Now, be your Best You, and live your Best Life.