If You Know Where You’re Going, You Can Build Any Life You Want

‘The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.’ -Epictetus

Here’s the unfortunate reality of the world: most people don’t take the time to stop and think about or create the life they really want. Instead, they just get stuck in the life they’re already living.

It feels like what they know is all they can ever have. That their past and upbringing is the ultimate determiner of their future.

However, Tony Robbins has brilliantly said,

“It is your decisions, not your conditions, that determine your destiny.”

Indeed, if you decide who you want to become, you can often create any life you want. As the remainder of this article will explain. Here we go.

Define Your Ideal Future

British author James Allen once said, “Your circumstances reveal you to yourself.” In other words, your current situation is simply a product of what you believe you deserve.

As an example, Darren Hardy, author of The Compound Effect, once told the story of how he ended up with his dream wife.