Your day-to-day life can become a predictable stage…

It’s hard to imagine that your life can turn into the same play, repeated over and over again. You always know how the story is going to end… and it doesn’t matter that you labored to change the actors and the scenery. What doesn’t seem to change is the emotional landscape, which exists behind the ever changing actors and scenery. The emotional landscape which is the real story of your life.

You feel as if your life has come to a place where you are just going through the motions. You’re not fully present, your life feels likes it’s on autopilot. This leads you to feel disconnected from the world around you. You begin to feel that something more important keeps eluding you. Your life is full of activity but empty of fulfillment. You feel each day that goes by is another day wasted.

Wasted by pointless distraction.

You feel that you’ve lost your connection to the world because you feel less fulfillment. All of your energy is used up just maintaining status quo. The passion that once provided the drive to create the lifestyle you now live, has been dissipated in the process of “getting here”.

What you now experience as a disconnection from the world is actually the disconnection from your inner self. It’s only from living your life from the “inside”, through the ongoing discovery of your true self, that you will find the focus, drive and sense of purpose which gives meaning to your life. Without meaning, life feels empty. Without passion, you are just going through the motions and feel like you’re only putting in time.

Coming into the realization that you are missing something is a powerful indication that you may be ready to make a decision.

In music we call this decision the “crossroads”. It’s the point you reach in life where you stop being only an entertainer or performer and decide to become an Artist. You begin to understand that what you have is an opportunity to explore greater creative possibilities, than just pleasing your audience.

You can begin a process to reinvent who you are and what your destiny is. As you rediscover that which brings meaning and passion back into your life, the energy, excitement, focus and purpose returns to your life.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of individuals who come to the “crossroads” of their life, push down the feelings, ignore the warnings and fall victim to their fears, uncertainties and doubts. They choose to look away from those questions about who they really are and what their life purpose may be. It’s not surprising that they choose the predictable, safe, dead-end path they are already familiar with… and spend their time and remaining energy attempting to distract themselves from facing the reality of their current lives.

No matter what they do, always haunted by the feeling that something is missing and life is passing them by.

They choose to live their lives from the outside in.

Be careful to not miss the true promise of your life. Which is accepting the infinite possibilities of your imagination and embracing the responsibility to choose how you will use it.

-Bob Baran