Signs You're Off Your Path in Life

You're off your path in life if:

1. Money is your priority. If you take a job just because you want the money but don't really care about the work involved, you are off your path;

2. You worry about what others think. If you feel embarrassed or uncomfortable doing the job you've chosen, if you worry that others will think your foolish, you are off your path. If you don't believe in the work your doing, then it is not the right work for you;

3. You focus on the end result, not the process. When you sign up for something, get involved with a project, a degree program, a job, and you keep thinking "when I'm finished I'll be making x amount of dollars. I just need to force myself to see it through"....you are probably in the wrong place. If you have to force yourself to do anything, then it's the wrong choice. A person should enjoy the learning and researching aspect of what they are doing and not just be focused on the accolades they might receive when it is all over. You are off the path;

4. You take shortcuts to achieve your objective. If you can't bring yourself to complete all the small goals in the process of reaching the big goal, you are off your path. If you try to find easier and quicker ways to get to the big goal because truthfully you don't care about the process, you just want to get it over with already, you're off your path;

5. You take on more than you can handle. If you have signed yourself up for a full time college program, as well as working full time, you have probably taken on more than you can handle. You basically set yourself up for failure. Exhaustion, stress, and loose thinking with regard to money, time and relationships all in the name of achieving a goal, is not a recipe for success, it is a recipe for disaster. If you are in a position where your daily responsibilities outweigh your free time, then you need to figure out how you can achieve your goal without losing everything in the process. Maybe take classes online instead of in person? If someone else is paying the bills (not very likely, I know), then maybe work out an agreement with them so you can complete your goal. Either way, if you set yourself up to take on more than you can physically and psychologically handle, you are off your path.

Finding your way in this life is not easy, but it is not supposed to be excrutiatingly hard either. If it is a constant struggle filled with setbacks and failures, you can guarantee you are off your path and the universe is trying to tell you so.