The road of life is long.

How you travel that road is entirely up to you. Your travels will indicate your rate of joy, happiness, and success, or sadness.

You could choose to reject your travels and see only the litter along the way. The choice is yours. You are in control of your destiny and your happiness.

Here is proof as I know it.

Childhood was hard. My step-father was a tyrant. He physically and mentally abused everyone under the same roof as him. My step-brothers took it personal. They allowed that demon to capture their souls, their life. One step-brother is dead. One step-brother is in prison. One step-brother keeps failing. Might I say he is the most likely to fail forward. I too could have chosen this road travelled and I did not.

One day some years ago the youngest of the step-brothers found me after a twenty-five year separation. I had tried so hard to leave those people and their litter behind. Doing the right thing I invited this bother to my home. He looked around and asked, “How do you have all these things and I have nothing? We lived in the same house, shared the same bedroom, and witnessed hell together.” I didn’t know what to say other than, “I made a choice to go a different path.”

He has held me up on a pedestal as a hero. He shared stories of how my humor and sense of strength in those dark moments as a child inspired him. I had no idea. In my mind I was just a scared little boy who ran as fast as I could away from those moments of dysfunction with my Mom and sister in hand.

I would say I am no hero. And as life has unfolded for me I see the fog in my mind clearing. I am seeing the specific reason I have been put here on earth. I feels very specific.

People in need keep appearing in my life. I need to start taking the hint and engaging to genuinely help others. Deep in my heart that feels like what I am meant to do while travelling my own road of life.

This is how I have come to realize that it is my mission to help others visioneer a life that matters. By helping others I will also be helping myself.

I am inspired to find a way to make this happen for myself and for those I have the opportunity to touch in a positive way throughout this coming year.