Hi guys! Welcome to episode 463 of the wildly successful lifestyle podcast. I’m glad you’re here. I’m glad I’m here with you. It means a lot to get to spend these few minutes with you twice a week working towards being our best selves. It’s in our hands to make that happen but guess what, we’re doing it, because we show up every week for ourselves by working on our mindset. let’s keep it up!
I was traveling home with my big sister and her husband years ago. We had been on a trip to visit family in Chicago. We drove and it was quite a drive and my brother in law drive most of the way. Well when we were a few hours away I offered to drive because my brother in law was very tired so he said ok. Thanks. Now all you have to do is just keep driving straight on this highway. We had at least a couple hours until we got off this highway. So I start driving and he takes a nap. Everyone is napping but me of course I’m driving. My brother in law was really tired because he took quite a nap. And I just did exactly what he said and kept driving straight. He woke up a couple hours later and he’s looking around like where are we? Slowly the realization that I had done exactly what I was told but he didn’t think he’d sleep that long so we had missed our turnoff to head in the right direction towards home. I had no idea, I was probably 17 at the time paying no attention to signs.
Turns out it wasn’t horrible but we had been driving in the wrong direction for about 20 minutes. So we figure that out and turn around and drive the 20 minutes back to our turnoff and now we are back on track with a 40 minute delay. We were trucking along just fine but somewhere we got off course and if we just kept going we would end up somewhere but it wouldn’t be where we wanted to end up. So we were moving. We just weren’t moving in the right direction. Not the whole time anyway. Once we course corrected it was all fine. But we had to course correct. That’s how it is in life sometimes we have to course correct. And usually we know we need to, before we actually do it. Sometimes it’s a gut feeling that something’s off and sometimes something veers you off course only for you to realize you had been heading in the wrong direction and didn’t realize it. The key is to have the gumption to course correct.
Eric sent me a video recently. One of this fine Denzel Washington videos. He’s so good. In this video Denzel was saying that just because you’re moving doesn’t mean you’re heading in the right direction. Just because you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot done, don’t confuse movement with progress.
I talked about Eric and I making big changes to the way we eat and drink. We were heading on a path that wasn’t obviously bad, but it wasn’t excellent either. We were expecting excellence from a less than excellent path. We had an involuntary course correct with his Afib. When you have those involuntary course corrects there’s a lot of different ways it can go. You can play the victim. You can feel sorry for yourself. You can be angry at the world. Or you can take it upon yourself to do a major course correct And that’s what we’ve done. We researched and we changed the things we knew all along we should have been doing or not doing. And now we are back on a course that leads to excellence. Now it’s only been a month and of course we all would like to see immediate results. . We want overnight success but it didn’t take a month to get us here and it’s not going to take a month to get us out. Once you are back on the right track, allow that it’s going to take time to get results you want. Also allow that there will be things you try that don’t work and so you gotta course correct again. But in order to have excellence you have to practice excellence. You’re not going to have extraordinary health without having extraordinary health practices. You’re not going to have an extraordinary life without extraordinary habits and that often involves course correcting. Getting back on track when you’ve gotten off track. Even if you’ve been on what feels like the wrong track for a while, it’s not too late to course correct.
I was doing my morning reading. Currently it’s Wayne Dyer’s book “There’s a spiritual solution to every problem”. And in it he mentioned the Buddhist proverb “If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking”. He doesn’t say sprint. He doesn’t say hurry or you’ll miss something. He says “keep on walking”. Because how true that is. There is no rush because you can’t get it wrong because you’re never gonna to be finished being a human until you die and we all hope that’s not too soon. You get to course correct as often as you want. Sometimes there will be a temporary course correct that forced you off a path you would never have gotten off on your own, that doesn’t mean you have to stay on that new path either, that could have just been a shortcut to the new path you were meant for. I had a hormone course correct years ago that led to me doing this podcast and it feels so right. Again though I knew something was off and I didn’t just wallow in it I did the things I needed to do to course correct and it wasn’t easy. We have these gut feelings that are trying to tell us things, how often are we listening. Things like…
I know I should change this sugar habit or my job is killing me slowly I wish I would change it. Or maybe there’s a nagging feeling that you want to join a church or write a book or take a class or make a phone call or whatever you’re Gut is trying to tell you. It’s easier to course correct on your own terms don’t wait for you know what to hit the fan in order to change something. Have the gumption to change it now.
That’s my challenge to you today is if your gut has been telling you something’s offf in whatever, this is your meaaage to take massive action and make a course correct. Don’t wait for life to force you off a path you know isn’t right, have the gumption to change it on your terms. Course correcting means growth so it’s a good thing, it doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with your life it means you’re doing it right. Share this with 3 people who you’re glad are in your life. I love you guys, I’ll talk to you in a few days!
