This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1887, Living a Drifter's Life.

Here's how to get back on track by Sillon George of spiritual living for busypeople.com

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Living a Drifter's Life. Here's how to get back on track by Sillon George of spiritual living

for busypeople.com. Quote, Purpose is the great divider that separates those who are simply living

from those who are truly alive. Alex Rogers, do you ever find yourself asking how in the world did

I end up here? Maybe as a younger person you had certain goals and dreams for your life.

You had everything mapped out and now your life looks very different than the life you planned.

There are many wonderful things that you would never have dreamed but maybe there are

some things about your life that frustrate you. You wonder whether it's even worth it to have goals.

Maybe you no longer know what you want out of life. Maybe you're afraid to ask of life what you

really want because you felt beaten down for so long. You feel you've disappointed yourself,

your family, your teachers, and anyone who expected great things of you. A Drifter's Life.

It's early disappointments like these that cause us to shy away from setting big goals for ourselves

and if you're religious or spiritual doing this can feel pretentious at best and self-centered at

worst. Hence many succumb to drifting through life. We ennobled the idea of drifts by calling it

surrender or selflessness or trust. We convince ourselves that having no goals is actually an enlightened

spiritual path. But growing up near the sea has taught me about the potentially destructive power

of drifting. One day while on a swim I found myself way off my path when a fast moving current

took me out to sea. Luckily I noticed what was happening in time to swim out of the current and head

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