This Is Your Path

This has truly been my path to walk alone.  I have been self-motivating and self-creating my new reality.  There are those who will walk part of it with me, but no one can walk it for me.  Even those people on the same path as me are not going to the same destination I am.  Because of this I must always be aware of the pitfalls.

The "Me Initiative" is a little like the empty highway I found myself on a few days ago.  If you have ever been to Baltimore you know that that does not happen very often.  There were plenty of cars speeding towards me on the other side, but not a light to be seen on my side....at first.  By the time I took my exit, there were several tail lights a bit in front of me and headlights behind me, but they never did catch up to me and I never caught up to them.

That is the way my path has been.  There are people coming towards me who look at my success and say I do not need to go any further.  They mean well, but they are basing the thought on what they perceive is my goal and not what my actual goal is.  I can't worry about what they think.  Only I know what is best for me and what my end goal truly is.  There are people in front of me who are further along on the path.  It is tempting to try to catch up to them, but for now this is where my exit is.  I would be setting myself up for failure if I try to catch up to them.  I have developed a carefully constructed plan to meet my goal and rushing to catch up with someone else will not get me there.  There are people behind me who have not started on the path or are not as far along as me.  I can not slow down to let them catch up.  I can offer them support and advice as to what has been working for me, but they have their own path to follow.

Sometimes my path is lonely.  I would love to find a battle buddy who would run with me at 3am or who doesn't mind my crazy fitness regime.  And maybe at some point I will find that person, but it will still be my path to walk alone.  Their goals will be different then mine and while we may be on parallel paths we each have to motivate ourselves in the end and stay true to the path that we are on.

Where is your path leading you?

Have you found a battle buddy to share the path with?