What is your direction? Compass
The compass is a useful tool, many of us never really understood it or only knew what they were and never used them. In today's world the auto maps and guide stuff of our phones or satnav systems mean we might never ever use a compass again.
The compass, helps us find what direction we are going. That is its basic use, a simple device for travellers and explorers many moons ago.
There are so many people out there in the world looking for a direction, wondering what direction they are travelling and just all round searching and searching. In a conversation with a friend quite recently, I found myself speaking about the compass. What my own understanding of what the compass has meant to me all through my life. I learned about the compass and all the degrees on the dial and what they represented and where each direction was, at a very young age. I was a commercial fisherman as a young teen and for many years after that too. This was where I gained my knowledge and understanding of how the compass worked. I had opportunities as a young boy scout to go orienteering and use a compass but my full understanding came as a fisherman.
You who seek direction might very well benefit from understanding the compass too. Amazing isn't it, such a little device can show us our way. In a more simple explanation, the compass points north so you are heading north. That is easy right?
There are 360 degrees in a circle and on the compass there are 360 little markings, each one representing one of the degrees of the circle. If we are point north, this is zero and also 360. So when someone says "in my life I did a complete 360" yup they mean they went from where they were heading all the way around in a big circle to end up right back where they needed to be. Probably could have saved themselves a lot of trouble and just kept on their heading.
Doing a 180 would represent going from North direction to heading south. This would be the complete opposite direction as 180 degrees is the opposite to north and yes, south is the opposite to north. So doing a 180 is changing things or going a whole and other direction.
Understanding these compass points helped me develop an analytical type brain as it was an understanding of when I am facing one direction and knowing what other directions were at my back and to my sides that gave me great insight into understanding what direction I am heading.
If you are like me and have found yourself wondering what or where you are going and why. The knowing of what are to the left and right can help in how we proceed. The compass is a mighty tool to help us see our own direction.
Your search for direction might just end and free you up to enjoy the actual journey.
This is worth a thought or two for sure.
When any issue comes up in our life, we can look at it with blinkers on and we can just keep our head down and plough on heading north let's say. We can look at our issue with one degree vision or tunnel vision or again with blinkers on. We may struggle and become upset that we are lacking direction or our feelings nudge at us a little bit of how we are LOST.
Should we choose to use our compass and take a look from a few different angles or degree points of the compass perhaps we can understand our direction or our issue a little differently or more clearly.
Too complicated for you?
Not really, as it is in taking a different angle of view, a different view point of any issue that raises itself in our life, it is from these different vantage points that we may gain some understanding and we can then proceed with conviction on our journey or if needed alter course.
Does your head have the capability to look at your house from across the street while you are still standing in it? Can you see the vision of yourself from another angle? Having a little compass can help you see what is where and how each degree around it's dial represents another viewpoint. These view points help us understand direction.
In changing our view point we begin to see alternatives and solutions to issues that arise in our life. Understanding our compass let's us see clearly our direction.
With that or these kind of tools in your vault you will drop the question of what is your direction and your life can be filled more with enjoyment rather than searching.
Understanding the compass can bring us to a place of never being lost. Now just imagine that.
The compass, helps us find what direction we are going. That is its basic use, a simple device for travellers and explorers many moons ago.
There are so many people out there in the world looking for a direction, wondering what direction they are travelling and just all round searching and searching. In a conversation with a friend quite recently, I found myself speaking about the compass. What my own understanding of what the compass has meant to me all through my life. I learned about the compass and all the degrees on the dial and what they represented and where each direction was, at a very young age. I was a commercial fisherman as a young teen and for many years after that too. This was where I gained my knowledge and understanding of how the compass worked. I had opportunities as a young boy scout to go orienteering and use a compass but my full understanding came as a fisherman.
You who seek direction might very well benefit from understanding the compass too. Amazing isn't it, such a little device can show us our way. In a more simple explanation, the compass points north so you are heading north. That is easy right?
There are 360 degrees in a circle and on the compass there are 360 little markings, each one representing one of the degrees of the circle. If we are point north, this is zero and also 360. So when someone says "in my life I did a complete 360" yup they mean they went from where they were heading all the way around in a big circle to end up right back where they needed to be. Probably could have saved themselves a lot of trouble and just kept on their heading.
Doing a 180 would represent going from North direction to heading south. This would be the complete opposite direction as 180 degrees is the opposite to north and yes, south is the opposite to north. So doing a 180 is changing things or going a whole and other direction.
Understanding these compass points helped me develop an analytical type brain as it was an understanding of when I am facing one direction and knowing what other directions were at my back and to my sides that gave me great insight into understanding what direction I am heading.
If you are like me and have found yourself wondering what or where you are going and why. The knowing of what are to the left and right can help in how we proceed. The compass is a mighty tool to help us see our own direction.
Your search for direction might just end and free you up to enjoy the actual journey.
This is worth a thought or two for sure.
When any issue comes up in our life, we can look at it with blinkers on and we can just keep our head down and plough on heading north let's say. We can look at our issue with one degree vision or tunnel vision or again with blinkers on. We may struggle and become upset that we are lacking direction or our feelings nudge at us a little bit of how we are LOST.
Should we choose to use our compass and take a look from a few different angles or degree points of the compass perhaps we can understand our direction or our issue a little differently or more clearly.
Too complicated for you?
Not really, as it is in taking a different angle of view, a different view point of any issue that raises itself in our life, it is from these different vantage points that we may gain some understanding and we can then proceed with conviction on our journey or if needed alter course.
Does your head have the capability to look at your house from across the street while you are still standing in it? Can you see the vision of yourself from another angle? Having a little compass can help you see what is where and how each degree around it's dial represents another viewpoint. These view points help us understand direction.
In changing our view point we begin to see alternatives and solutions to issues that arise in our life. Understanding our compass let's us see clearly our direction.
With that or these kind of tools in your vault you will drop the question of what is your direction and your life can be filled more with enjoyment rather than searching.
Understanding the compass can bring us to a place of never being lost. Now just imagine that.
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