Today is Columbus Day. We all know the story. Columbus was trying to find an alternate route to India. Instead he got credit for one of the biggest discoveries ever (even if he wasn’t the first one to find it).
Going off into the unknown and getting lost takes you out of the box. The best way to come up with new ideas, and get out of a rut is to take yourself out of your normal context. Get up and walk around. Experience something new. You won’t put things in perspective until you can view what’s happening from a third-party’s point of view.
Forget what’s easy, what’s routine, what’s comfortable. The road to change, the road to success even, doesn’t always go in one direction. It’s twisty, and steep, and you may fall down along the way, but it’s better to have a hard time on the road to success, than to have an easy journey down to road to mediocrity.
Take a risk today, and get lost. You never know if you might find what you were looking for all along.
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How true, how true. Getting lost is the best part of life. When we stay in a rut we lose so much of what is out there to experience. Change is good and it can also be fun. Sometimes, we forget to have fun in what we do each day. It is OK to be child like, and have fun and remember how simple life can be. It is not OK to have childish behavior where you throw a tantrum if you don’t get your own way.
Enjoy what life has to offer, get lost and have fun!!!!
Oh yeah. I totally agree. Getting lost sometimes especially during the toghest times could be so rewarding. It could lead you to a whole new world of discoveries, new risks to take that brings you to a higher level in life, or a total life changing opportunity you’ve been wanting to posess. And guess what, sometimes it’s OK not to be OK. Just forget the world for a moment. Then embark on a new beginning. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!