Many times, life has presented me with 2 paths.  One path, I already know.  It is well worn.  But what about the other path?  Here's my story.

In this episode, I talk about:

* Understanding why I always chose the same path

* Why I started choosing a new path

* What makes me happy

Transcript:

Good morning everyone. Welcome to the Path to 1 million. This is going to be episode 171. Yesterday I am clicking around on YouTube because I could barely lift my arms from doing all these burpees all the time. I'm clicking around on YouTube and there's a video on the Tim Ferris channel. And if you don't know who Tim Ferriss is, he's got the number one rated podcast on iTunes and he interviews like the best world class performers thought leaders in in the world. So I'm watching this seven minute segment where he's interviewing Dr. Maté and they're talking about, they're talking about being able to heal yourself. And Dr. Maté said something that I thought was really interesting in the interview. He said, "We don't react to what has happened. We react to our perception of what happened." And that really spoke volumes to me because there's been so many times in the life where, you know, I have been faced with the decision or a choice, like do I go down Path A or do I go down Path B?

And a lot of the times the my habits, my perceptions will often dictate which path that I will walk down. And there's no such thing as a, you know, the right path or the wrong path or anything else like that because, you know, I'm just not wired to, you know, do something that's like illegal or something. But whenever it's come to a choice in life that I've had to make going down pathway or path B, I've been noticing these patterns and I want to talk to you a little bit about some of these things that I've noticed. So, you know, one of the big, one of the big things that I've realized is that the, my ability to travel and for the longest time when I was in my twenties I had this vision in my head that, you know, I would love to go to Europe.

I would love to go to Paris. I've always wanted to see Paris, but I was always waiting for that special someone to be there and go with me. Right? So, you know, as I'm waiting for the special someone to show up and I'm like, you know, I date somebody for like maybe a month or six weeks or something and it would just fall apart. And it just kept going, kept going, kept going. There was one day where once again I'm faced with this decision, right? It comes up in front of me again and I have this decision and path a is I, you know, I continued to wait for somebody special or path B is that I just go, you know, throw caution to the wind and go by myself. I mean people, people travel all the time by themselves. I actually met people who prefer to travel by themselves rather than travel with someone.

And so I remember I made it to that point where I was like, you know what? I know that I've already done path a and I've done path a quite a number of times. I didn't get exactly where I wanted to go, so now I'm just going to go try path B. So, you know, I bought a plane ticket, I packed my bags and I went and I traveled there by myself. Now what's interesting is that, you know, the, the more than I travel, the more that I experienced, the more that I love it. But when I do think back of all the times that I've traveled and all the adventures that I've had, I, it seems to me that all the adventures that I really love and the adventures that I've written about and I've shared about on Facebook and I've made it into my travel log and that continued to really stick with me are the ones where I actually had somebody with me on that journey.

So it's nice to know that I'm no longer restrained in the fact that, you know, if I want to travel somewhere by myself,