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Lessons & Letters
WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
As the new year settles in on our horizon, this is the time when many of us begin a process
of forward thinking, hopeful manifestations, goal setting and rethinking the past year.
Driving the other day, having left my office to literally be on my own for a while for the pure
purpose of gaining some new perspective and to clear my polluted head, the thought that came
crashing into me was Nikki, where are YOU going? Not in the literal sense of where I was driving
too, because there wasn’t a physical destination, only a mental destination. But as loud as the music
was playing through the speakers, the thought of “Where are YOU going,” was just as loud.
So that is my question to all of you this month. I challenge all of you to sit or drive or just be for a moment in time
and really think… where are YOU going? Where are YOU going in 2020? Because wherever you ARE going, you will
certainly find yourself there.
I realized that there are so many ways for me to go, for us to go, in all different areas of our lives. For example, if you
are inside of a relationship that is not working for you or is unhealthy or just stagnant, but you have no plan of action
to change it, then you are choosing to move forward in that bad relationship and where you are going is exactly where
you are right now. If you are sitting inside of a beautiful new feeling, something that makes your skin breath and your
body vibrate, then ask yourself, where are you going to go with this new emotion? Will you go towards it, fearlessly, or
will you stand still in fear of rejection or failure? Whatever you choose will be where you are going. Is there something
more you want from your professional or personal life and are you going in the direction of securing it, or are you
continuing to do the same things everyday with the hope that something changes without your effort having to be
involved? Where are YOU going? Is there a conversation or are there conversations out there that haven’t been had
or that need closure in your life? If so, where are you going to go with them?
Are you going towards health and healing and inner growth and love and change and strong decisions and things that
will make you better or are you going somewhere else? Are you going with God and faith? Are you going to a place
of chaos and drama and loud noise and sleepless nights and unfulfilled days? Are you going towards loving tougher,
working harder, and hitting goals? Are you going anywhere? Are you going backwards? Where are YOU going?
Wherever we choose to go inside of these things will determine where we ultimately end up. Our path in life will
reflect where we chose to go.
There is a saying by Ralph Waldo Emerson that says, “Life is not a destination, it is a journey.” And while I love this
saying and believe in it, I like to take it a little further.
I believe deeper that life’s journey is not about the destination at all, instead, it is about who we become along the way.
Where you choose to go has a hand in creating who you will become along the way. And so, I ask one last time, where
are YOU going? Always Thankful
Nikki White
/turquoiseelephant.com