That Roadmap From DREAMs To GOALs To PLANs To ACTION

Many claim that the toughest travel is a 'SOLO TRAVEL' trekking the most remote places like Nepal alongside its very steep mountains.  Setting aside all the simile and metaphors, to me, the toughest travel is that journey traversing the roadmap we plotted [hoping one has plotted his life roadmap] WHICH all kickstarts with our DREAMS translated to GOALS, concretized to PLANs and transformed into concrete ACTIONS that would and should yield the RESULTS and OUTCOMEs we expected.  Indeed, that ROADMAP is long winding, circuituous and at times twisting many miles-long road.  BUT that is a given.  The wild cards in our equation in life are the variables that start off with our DREAMS.  Sadly, many of us end up stalled for quite a considerable time with our DREAMS, day-in day-out📗📙📘

Verily true, the archtype of life is our journey and our ROADMAP would help us chart our life-long trip throughout all the changes and transition that will happen many times [at unique and different circumstances].  Obviously, that ROADMAP will help us visualize our life itself, from WHERE one is coming from and to WHERE he wants to end up as his destination.  Learning HOW to navigate throughout those changes and transitions will help us gain control of our life's circumstances, even for those unexpected ones that will spring out, catching us offguarded over and over again.  If there is one thing that is NOT so obvious, our life journeys are both inner and outer.  The events of our outer journey, those cumulative transitions of a lifetime, will be somewhat similar for all of us WHO share the human experience.  On the other hand, our personal inner journey is a much more 'private affair'.  And our life ROADMAP is a reliable context every step of our way💥💥💥

NOT akin to that typical Carnival Cruise itinerary WHICH is very short-term, from point to point, the nature of our life revolves around CHANGE and all of us, like it OR NOT, will go through tons and tons of CHANGES, and going through those multiple life transitions will be, many times, akin to tought nuts to crack BUT they are more comparable to bridges WHEREIN even if we are suffering from Gephyrophibia [that's FEAR of BRIDGES], if we gotta cross the bridge, then we got to cross it😡😡😡

Beyond all the normal CHANGES we would anticipate, there will be CHANGES and transitions we least expect OR ones WHICH we are NEVER prepared to face and handle OR those we are aware and conscious BUT WHICH we DON'T want to see happening at all.  Sounds familiar?  YES, LIKE WHEN I migrated 'incognito' to Singapore, those years WHERE it was big news for someone to be migrating there.  BUT the questions staring right in my face then was HOW to cope with encounters and transitions that will be either that difficult, challenging and maybe overwhelming.  One measure I embraced was to learn to be prepared for WHATEVER comes your way.  And HOW do we do that?  I'll be the first one to admit that experience is the best teacher.  Once something happened to you, it will NO longer be an UNKNOWN variable as it becomes a learning experience [after all the challenges you faced]💚💛💜

Our takeaway:  Through the years, I always SET my own expectations.  Before I would embark on a new endeavor, I would map my trip as best as I can.  And for things beyond my control, I always had to reinforce my awareness + consciousness that times there will be humps and roadblocks WHERE I need to detour or worse, stretch my patience WHEN stuck.  Yes dude, that ROADMAP from our DREAMs To GOALs To PLANs To ACTION should be at the very core of our proactiveness in life😌😌😌