Claim your possible future. Then go get it.

​Maybe this will be a heavy question for a Monday morning. If it is, that's likely because you haven't considered this question in a while.

Or ever.

But here goes. What possible future are you claiming this morning?

That's an important answer to have. Because that answer will largely inform what you intend to do today.

When we know where we want to go, chances are higher we'll be doing things on purpose to get there. When we don't know where we want to go, we will largely act in response to the whims of where someone else wants us to go.

Which is often in the direction of a possible future they have claimed, not you.

That's not always a bad thing. But not everyone's possible future is in line with a possible future you would claim. So helping someone else get their future can come at the expense of you sacrificing yours.

Or at the expense of you never claiming a possible future at all.

We can get pretty far into our future before we realize this is not the future I would have claimed. And we realize we got there because we never took the opportunity to claim a future at all.

We jumped on the boat of life. Followed the captains orders. Then one day frantically asked the captain for a map because we had no clue where we were. We went on a ride to nowhere, but suddenly it seemed important to know exactly where nowhere was.

That is not a bad day. Because whether you are a teenager or a middle ager or much older than a middle ager, it is never too late to claim a possible future.

As long as you have a breath, you have the promise of a future.

The question is what future are you going to claim. Write it down. Describe it.

You may discover what you're describing doesn't look like the boat you just got off. It may be an entirely different looking boat.

That's okay. In fact, that's great. Because now you're the captain. You no longer need to ask where am I, because you know. You know because you are on the path you chose to get to the possible future you have claimed.

Maybe that possible future doesn't work out. But discovering impossible by chasing possible is a whole lot more fulfilling than never imagining what is possible to begin with.

Claim your possible future.

Then work for it.