What is "the right direction"

Are you heading in the right direction in your life? With all the trillions of different possibilities life has to offer, how can you tell?

Well, a good indicator is this simple test. When you get up in the morning, whatever time morning is for you, what is it like?

When you first wake up, are you cursing and swearing at the alarm clock, filled with aches and pains from the day before, still tired and not wanting to get up?Are you filled with dread for the day that you know is ahead of you?

Or, do you wake up, well rested and refreshed ready for the new day and what it has in store for you? Perhaps you are not ecstatic to find that the time to arise and face those new challenges is at hand but at the very least not grumpy and resisting them.

If the first example is kind of what your mornings are like, then something is wrong somewhere. You may be in the wrong line of work, the wrong relationship or simply suffering the consequences of having made a series of poor choices somewhere along the way.

I don't know you well enough to tell you exactly what it is that needs to change in order for you to get the train that is your life back on the tracks leading to happiness and success. And even if I did, I wouldn't tell you. The voyage of empowerment and self-improvement just does not work that way.
I have tried many times to just give people the answers they seek. What ends up happening is they end up not not believing I know what I am talking about, so they do not use the answer I provide. Or they attempt to implement what I say but do not really understand what it is that I say and end up making things worse than if they had not asked for my input in the first place.

What I have learned from this is that the best way to assist another person is to show them the way to find the answers for themselves. To get your life back on track you need to figure out what it is that your life would look like if it was working the way you wanted it to and then take steps to make those things happen.

Whatever job it is that you do should be something that you enjoy well enough that you would still be willing to do it even if you were not being paid to do it. Whatever relationship you are in you should be in because you want to be there, not because you are expected to be or feel obligated to be there.
Not quite sure what it is that needs to change in your life? Close your eyes and imagine that it is two years in the future. Everything in your life is exactly the way you want it to be. Your alarm clock is just about to go off. You wake up refreshed, feeling awesome and turn the alarm off just before it activates. You bounce out of bed ready to handle your day.

What time is it? Where are you? Who are you with? What does where you are look like? You head off to take a shower. After your shower you get dressed. What clothing do you put on? Are you off to the office? If so where do you work? If not what does the rest of your day look like? Hold that whole image of your life working exactly the way you want it to two years in the future. Really live in that moment. Take in that future and own it. Then look back from there to what you have today.
What is different between your future life and your current one? What changes had to be made to make that future life possible?

The answers to these questions will tell you what steps to start making today to get where you want to be in the future.