Proceed to the route

If you happen to use google maps when driving, you are familiar with the voice that will tell you to proceed to the route when you steer off course from your path to the destination.  This came to mind this morning on my bike ride to school while listening to Mike Dooley on Hay House Radio.  He mentioned that in our lives, we don't need to know the way to get somewhere, we only need to know what we want or where we want to go.  For Mike, his dream was to have the ability to do the work he loves (writing, speaking, coaching) while traveling the world and making a very good amount of money to live on.  Those were his request - his "wants"  from life and he received those things and then some after releasing his "how" to spiritual/universal guidance.  

I am ready for this path, I am releasing my "how" to the universe and I know what I want and I prefer to keep those wants to myself.  In the past, I felt the need to tell any and everyone what I was going to be when I grow up and I am tired of doing that.  I also felt the need in the past to know just "how" I was going to get somewhere and how long it was going to take me.  Now, I don't have any answers for anything, I only know that my goal is to be joyful in the process of going through the day to day and taking better care of my mind, body, and spirit.  I have found out the hard way, when I feel good- I do good and when I feel bad - I do bad.  It is pretty simple, but it took me decades to figure this out for myself.  I just flipped through some old pictures on my external hard drive and previewed some times in my life.  I started to recall the happy times and the not so happy times.  The happy times are when I am physically taking care of myself and my health, as well as when I am having fun or adventures.  This is a pretty simple formula for happiness in my life.  I guess I went of the path when I started to think that I needed to settle down, own a home, have a "relationship" with a man, and those weird things that we are sometimes sold with the hopes of happiness.  I guess most of the time, I felt a little weird for not having or wanting these things so I needed to try them on for size to realize that isn't my style.  I have found out it is ok and actually preferred for each and every person to be different.  This isn't something we are taught in school as kid or teen, but I hope to share this wisdom with and many people as I can in the future so if anyone doesn't feel they fit in - because they want to travel and have adventures and be single, they don't feel like an outcast.   

In life,  I have found it is good to try out every thing you possibly can.  Have as many experiences as possible to understand more about ourselves.  Only when we have tried out all of the things, places, and beliefs can we make the best decisions for ourselves.  If we dismiss this freedom of choice then we are for sure to live at the mercy of other peoples ideas of what life is supposed to look like.  Only I can decide what is best for me and only you can decide what is best for you.  My suggestion based on my own life is to try all the things, make mistakes, learn from every experience and never live with regret of the old phrase "I wish I could have or would have."