You wanted to fix how you felt, but if you did, you believed that you would end up wasting a great deal of time. So you continued on edge, feeling badly instead of satisfied until you lost your success out of fear or doubt that you were in the right place at the right time. We're supposed to enjoy our success right? Emphatically yes! Not only that, we're supposed to enjoy our path to success as well. We're supposed to be enjoying our lives, not lamenting every day that we've taken a wrong turn. But what if we did?

There are two steps to take for redirection. First we diagnose why things are going wrong or why we're not feeling right about things the way they are. Then we stop thinking about time and how we've wasted it. Doing that will only cause us to waste even more time. What one needs to do is understand how success is achieved beyond the hard work and determination to reach our goals in the fastest amount of time possible.

There are times when "time" must be taken out of the equation for attaining our goals. However what we should do quickly is to change the way we think about taking a wrong turn in our careers or goal setting. So you must not look at getting sidetracked as a waste of time, but a valuable lesson in your path to success. Everyone gets redirected that has had success. The greatest scientists and inventors have experienced hundreds of redirections that have all led them to the right path. And without taking what many call, "wrong turns" they may not have ever realized their goals that have helped humanity and the ! world in general.

I've always admired Thomas Edison and I've always looked to him to gain incites for success secrets unknown to many because he was a person who understood that the path to meeting his goals was not always a straight line. He never gave up and never saw failure as error; instead he saw a clearer path to his ultimate goal. To him mistakes were valuable lessons that always lead to the next step, allowing him to press on, while carrying the banner of triumph because he lived his successes one step at a time. We can see that very ideal in his famous quote which encourages us to keep an inner strength and press forward. "Be brave as your fathers before you.

Have faith and go forward." This is what we all need to do in the face of giving up our dreams. I read about Thomas Edison's stalwart determination to live his dreams over and over until I understood that success is not born out of a mere desire to create what we want, it's also a mix of wisdom, knowledge, and experience that all work together to create our dreams beyond a mediocre level. By not rushing to achieve quickly, we'll instead travel the path to our goals by taking little side trips, thereby gaining the development needed to fulfill them at their greatest level and to keep them alive.

Margaret Lukasik Christian Author and Teacher