Life Has A Windshield

You know you spend much more time while you are behind the steering wheel in your own car looking through that windshield and much less time looking at the rear view mirror. That is not to say that you shouldn't take time to glance into the rear view mirror to check for danger so you can negotiate the road ahead safer and with more efficiency. But there is no way that you are going to concentrate on your review mirror as the primary view of things unless you want to crash and burn and take others with you.

Now compare that to our lives when most people have a tendency to focus their lives on what's in the rear view mirror. Do you look behind you and see failures, challenges and all the negative things that are preoccupying your thoughts and limiting your forward progress. Or are you like an experienced driver who checks it periodically for safety purposes but is totally focused on the road ahead.

If you are comfortable in the fact that you are focused on the windshield and good to go great. But, don't hang up on me yet. Let's consider further the windshield and our analogy to our car.

We do much more than just look through our car's windshield. In the same way, we should do much more to the windshield of our life, than just look through it with glazed eyes. What happens on your car when your vision gets blurred by rain, or snow or mud? You clean up your view and wipe away those distractions and dangers to your forward movement. In the same way, you should wipe away those distractions such as negative and self-defeating thoughts and make sure you vision is clear and unobstructed.

Sometimes, you notice that the road of life throws up a big rock that seems to have a bulls-eye right in front of you. Whack! You get a huge problem that occurs and takes you away from that clear and concise view or trip that you are taking through life. In addition, that rock usually leaves a chip in your windshield that stays there as a permanent distraction. Sometimes it is even dangerous enough that it becomes a safety factor and extremely limiting to your driving. Those chips in our life windshield will inevitably do the same thing and distract us and distort our vision. Now there are those of us who will go through life thinking that it's not that big a deal and just let it sit there so it's always there as a reminder to us of that rock, or life problem, that we have or had to deal with. What happens if you neglect taking care of it? You know as well as I that that chip will gradually just keep creeping and crawling as it expands and one day, due to some outside factor, it will ruin the windshield and require an entire new one with associated cost and inconvenience.

Wouldn't it be much easier to take care of that chip as soon as it appears on life's windshield just like we do when it's on our car. If you address the chip in the windshield with some resin it will cover it and protect your vision and safety going forward. The same exists with our challenges in life. I suggest that you address those life chips with a dose of positive thinking, planning and education. You don't have to figure out the repair yourself but can find the experts who will offer some resin of their own to help you patch those life chips.

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