It’s a lesson I learned the hard way on a mountain bike ride several years ago. Staunchly independent, raised with a zero tolerance level for making mistakes, crashing into boulders and onto the ground rendered me completely incompetent, not just as a cyclist, but as a person.

1. “Look where
you want to go,
…not where you
don’t want to go.”

2. “Look where you want to go, not where you don’t want to go.”
It’s a lesson I learned the hard way on a mountain bike ride several
years ago. Staunchly independent, raised with a zero tolerance
level for making mistakes, crashing into boulders and onto the
ground rendered me completely incompetent, not just as a cyclist,
but as a person.
This internal working model told the story
of my life.

3. “Andrea. Look where you want to go, not where you
don’t want to go.” This is something worth taking to
heart, especially being in an online high school in
Arizona. It’s easy to be complacent while staring at a
computer screen and not realize that you need to
focus on where you want to go...instead of just
existing in the present.

4. If brains are continually on the quest for answers
(and they are), I must always focus on where I want
to go with visions and words that bid questions of
growth and achievement.
What answers do you look for as an online high
school student in Arizona? Are the questions you
seek answers for helping you to grow and achieve or
are they just keeping you in the present?

5. Designing our lives is a daily intentional process that
requires mindful attention to thoughts going into and out of
our head at every moment. If we’re not looking where we
want to go, literally!
…with what we read, what we watch,
…who we pay attention to,
…what we intentionally do when working on an online high school class,
…what our mind remembers or what our memories rehearse,
…then we are looking where we don’t want to go.

6. We steer ourselves past obstacles,
and into a life by design,
by looking where we want to go,
not where we don’t want to go.