Trajectory: the Path We Are On

“A good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth.”_Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The totality of our life is the sum of all our daily choices; the aggregate of our past choices is the reality of the life we have today. 

If our current reality is awesome, then great. If not, we needn’t despair, because if we are alive and healthy, we still have incredible power to set a new sail for a better trajectory toward the kind of future that we may prefer.

Granted, we can’t go back to correct the past but we can start now and create an awesome reality for our future self.  

  

The essence of this article is to rekindle our inner spark and create a stronger awareness of our own innate power over the forces of unfriendly circumstances. 

In order words: to move from a lower ground to higher ground, we need to be keenly aware of the choices that can help or hinder our progress toward our preferred destination. 

Consequently, we need to make better choices, starting right now.

Set a New Sail Today

To be on a good trajectory, we need to set a better sail today. And that starts with reexamining our daily choices to make sure they are serving our best interest in the long run.  

Understand that small steps that we consistently take will create a radical difference in the end. This is essence of compounding power of a new decision.

Furthermore, the principle of compounding applies in many areas of our lives: health, fitness, personal development, productivity, business, and relationships. 

Therefore, making the right choice of action is something we should never take lightly because every single action has consequences on our future.  

In the long-run, cumulative discipline brings huge profits, both mental and monetary. And by the same token, cumulative indiscipline generates huge losses, both mental and monetary.  

The set of our sail makes all the difference both in our trajectory and eventual destination. What we sow is what we reap!

Finally, remember that, in the coming days, weeks and months, there are things we can do to make our lives worse or better. Let’s choose wisely as the American psychologist, Timothy Leary rightly stated: “Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.”