Many of us go through our lives wondering if we are where we are supposed to be at this moment in time. Whether it’s a certain accomplishment you were supposed to achieve at this point in your life. Or maybe it’s a specific dollar amount you were supposed to have in your bank account currently. Or perhaps one, two, or twenty bucket list items you were supposed to cross off your list by now.

We are rarely content with where we are which can lead to missing out on what’s in front of us at this present moment. We miss the opportunity to truly embrace our accomplishments, experiences, and memories. Our focus is so narrowed on the future that the present hardly gets its fair share of your attention. 

Goals are healthy to have. They are a good mechanism to point us in the right direction of where we want to go. When goals become a rigid feedback loop is when they become not so healthy, creating a cycle where you place blame on yourself if you don’t meet your own expectations. You cut yourself down so far that before you know it, you’ve dug a hole with all of your doubts. And the hole gets deeper with each shovelful until you realize how far you’ve got to climb out now. 

We are in a constant race where we know there’s no finish line, yet we keep running as fast as we can while letting the beautiful scenes of life pass us by. Sometimes we have to be reminded it’s not a race against others to see who is the fastest. It’s a race against yourself to savor how much you’ve grown.

There are times you can’t see all of the growth that is happening underneath your surface but you can trust that it’s there. You may not see all our goals manifesting but you can trust that they will unfold in perfect timing when you’re ready to receive and ready to allow. 

We think we need to keep up with everyone else to be happy but when we look around, not many of us are actually enjoying the journey. To most, the reward is greater than the process but in the long run, the process is what can bring us the most joy and satisfaction.

We are so heads down in getting from point a to point b that we sometimes forget to look up to see how far we’ve all come. We forget to look around and smile at all we have around us. We forget to look forward, but not too far in the future, and appreciate the runway ahead of us.

So this is a gentle reminder to yourself, you are exactly where you are supposed to be. You are the person you are supposed to be at this moment in time. You are more than just what you’ve done, but who you’ve become. You are an extension of lives you’ve influenced, you’ve moved, and you’ve inspired in ways that may not be revealed to you but trust your light shines far.

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