Getting Lost in New York

Dirk Knight via Compfight

Have you ever been lost in a big city? New York, London, Birmingham?

It helps when you have a map, right?

But what if the map you have is of a completely different city?

You’re in New York, but your map is of San Francisco.

That’s no help at all. But, what would be worse is, if you think that the map of San Francisco that you are consulting is actually a map of New York.

Now that map is a hindrance to you, and you will never get where you want to go.

Our perception of life can be like that, some days.

You are trying to navigate life, but the map in your head is the wrong one, and you don’t even know it.

What look like problems to you might actually be opportunities. That failure you are kicking yourself over might actually be a success.

The next time you are feeling down and lost, or you are berating yourself over a self perceived failure, try changing the map.

You might well find you’ve been consulting the wrong one all along.