Finding New Direction (podcast $)

Having a plan presumes you know your direction.

“How does it feel to be on your own with no direction home.”
— Bob Dylan, from Like a Rolling Stone

Most of us presume that a new direction results from abandoning the old plan and adopting a new one. That kind of redirection is rarely new, it’s usually a different version of the old. A new direction leads to a different place. That’s something we tend to hold for emergencies.

If you can’t get through the forest, you might try the swamp, but that’s not a new direction because it leads to the same place. A new direction might lead to the old goal, but it might be more useful if it took you to a new goal. You might revise your whole notion of direction.

We can break this process down into parts, starting with two parts at the highest level and breaking subsequent parts down further. Two parts to finding new direction are reconsidering your goals and reconsidering your ideas of progress.

Goals and Ideas

Have a Large Goal

Follow a Wide Path

Ideas

Changing Goals

Changing Ideas