CROSSROADS AND CHOICES - Guideposts to Help You Experience a Meaningful Life Journey

By Sensei Paul David

Choosing the right path at the crossroads...

In the face of life's challenging crossroads, we need to carefully choose a path to traverse to find our voice and our

• Language: English
• Publisher: senseipublishing.com
• Release date: May 5, 2024
• ISBN: 9781778488351

Sensei Paul David

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FOREWORD

We all reach crossroads as we go through our lives.

When we reach those crossroads, are we mature and wise enough to choose the path that will take us to our dreams? Are we strong enough to start over if we realize that we have taken the wrong path?

For each crossroad we encounter, we are compelled to make sense of our human frailties and sufferings, and society's demands and judgments. We are challenged to hurdle every obstacle we will encounter, so we will still come out victorious, even if we take a long, circuitous path to reach our goals. 

We need to make difficult, sometimes painful, decisions in our lives. To do that, we need to attain balance. We need to care for our physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual life. 

Fixing one of those five aspects of life is a challenge in itself; how much more so in balancing all of them, so they complement each other? 

We all have a vision of who we want to become. Although some people would probably talk about their childhood dreams (e.g., becoming a police officer, doctor, or mother), most of us have images of what kind of a person we'd like to become as we age. 

A friend expressed who her future self will be in this manner:

I'd like to be a nurturing teacher who truly cares for students and believes that every student can learn. By being that kind of teacher, I can contribute to the betterment of these students' lives. That's how I'd like to be known.

A very noble vision, one would think. But how can that friend be a nurturing teacher when her own family does not nurture her? How can she teach students when some parents refuse to send their children to school, thinking it's a waste of time? And how can she be that person when she is wading through tons of problems that have damaged her self-esteem? How can she make choices if all she sees at her crossroad are rough, rocky paths where she is likely to stumble?

Is there hope for that person? Definitely!

This book suggests eight guideposts that will help you become the future you, despite the struggles you face. These suggestions tell you that what you become is a result of the choices that you make. Choose which of these guideposts resonate with you and apply them in your life as you see fit. 

It contains a few anecdotes of how real people applied a certain guidepost, with the hope that you can find a similarity to your situation and become inspired by how these people overcame their challenges.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

Introduction

Chapter 1:  Take Responsibility For Your Actions.

Chapter 2:  Put Your House in Order Before You Compare It With Another’s

Chapter 3:  Speak the Truth

Chapter 4: Communicate Clearly

Chapter 5:  Keep on Learning

Chapter 6:  Embrace Freedom

Chapter 7:  Explore – Enrich Your Journey

Chapter 8:  Have a Meaningful Life

Conclusion

Introduction

So what is the secret? The answer comes down to a simple choice. We can all choose