The Pathway Ahead
The pathway your life follows can lead you toward or away from fulfillment. Ideally, your pathway will carry you through to those feelings of inner fulfillment. The key is figuring out how you got onto your pathway. And then, if you're not moving in the right direction, figure out how to redirect yourself so that you can become fulfilled. If your pathway is going where you want it to, you've seen by now that it still takes effort to keep things moving in a positive direction. So, if you'd like to stay on your pathway, I'll help you do that. And if not, I'll help you navigate a shift to a more fulfilling pathway.
Throughout the book, you've seen examples of people who have made changes in their life paths. We're led to believe that as we get older, we become more set in our ways. However, people can and do make significant changes in midlife and beyond. Stories abound in the media of elderly people who go back to school. Actually, in 2007 the oldest recipient of a college degree was Nola Ochs, who graduated from Fort Hays State University in Kansas at the age of ninety-five. Hers is an extreme case, but she shows us that it's not impossible to turn your life around if you're dissatisfied with it, regardless of your age.
It is true that some of us carry out the patterns of our early years for decades, but still many others are able to shuck off their past and start fresh. By looking at the life pathways of people who extricate themselves from unhappy circumstances, you can get ideas about how to change your life pathways to maximize your fulfillment now. You'll find that you don't have to be stuck with an unhappy job, family situation, or even personality.
