Aim High in Steering

 At a certain point life has no more secrets to reveal. You live as if there is one reality,  and in return it repays you richly. When you reach this stage of freedom, life starts over again.

Deepak Choppra

     When I was 15 years old my brother brought me out one day, to teach me how to drive. I was anxious and it seemed so difficult to keep the car in between the lines on the road. My nervous muscles jerked and twitched and the car obediently followed, back and forth down the road. And the harder I focused, the worse it got. After observing me for a moment he asked me "Are you looking directly in front of the car?" I just nodded yes, not wanting to take my eyes from the road for a moment.
     "When you're driving a car", he chuckled, "you cannot look directly in front of the vehicle to steer. "Aim high in steering" he said, pointing forward  to draw my distracted eyes back to the task at hand. "Aim for the horizon and the car will drive itself there." I immediately relaxed and the car began to flow forward in its natural manner. This is advise helped me then and  I still use it to this day. When people ask me how to set goals, strive to become more, while still accepting that life is a process and being ok where they are today. I tell them "Aim high in steering!"
    Spirit posed the question to me one day, "How do you create while being still?". I had practiced stillness but I didn't really KNOW it as a way of life. I was always doing. I defined myself, and let others define me, by my ability to do. But the doing never got done. I found myself hurrying through one task, thinking about the next task, all day long.  I made the shift to present-moment thinking and my life immediately became more still.  Then I realized that the tasks got done, not as a result of the doing, but as a result of the thought about doing. THOUGHT IS WHAT MAKES THINGS HAPPEN OR NOT HAPPEN.
    Don't worry about the hows of life! The Universe KNOWS and it will drive Itself there! Focus on where you want to go and just show up!  To navigate life we simply have to be present, watch out for pedestrians and brake, don't swerve for squirrels!