Where we want to be

# Chapter 258

You have lived more than half of your life – are you where you want to be? - Masterminds

Best question ever, no matter how much you of your life you have lived so far. No one can decide how much of their life that they have lived because we don’t know how long we will live beyond today and that alone is another great reason that this is an awesome question. Of course the question /assumes/ that you are going to live a typical number of years and that you are at a certain place that you can calculate based on that assumption. So then the assumption is just that, an assumption, and that is ok, and that is focusing on the inconsequential part of this equation and we will not waste anymore time today on that.

The real question is, are you where you want to be? Whoa, slow down and think a few minutes before answering that question, or heck, take an hour or two if you are really wanting to unpack that question! Are you where you want to be? The question is not, are you where you thought you would be, but given all the circumstances that no one could have ever predicted two years ago, are you pleased with where you find yourself? I think most people that read these kinds of blogs or books will say no to this question, because we intrinsically believe that it shows some kind of lack or weakness to be content at this moment, that erroneous and insidious idea that we need to be hungry for more all the time, which simply is not true.

Some of us may have to alter the question to read, are you going in the direction that you want to be going? And that is a fine question too, though not as good as the original one. We all need to ask this question of ourselves, maybe even daily.