Ash ExantusChief Financial Educator, Ash Cash Enterprises · Financial Empowerment Leader | Public Affairs Strategist | Media Executive | Advocate for Economic Equity & Financial Literacy | Champion for Formerly Incarcerated Communities

Treat your life like a GPS system 🚗💨

24 Jan 2022 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker likens life to a GPS navigation system. He explains that, like a GPS, we should set a destination (our goals) and, when we make a wrong turn, the system doesn’t send us back to the starting point; instead, it reroutes from our current location. He argues that many people waste time dwelling on past mistakes, family issues, or past relationships, trying to “fix” what’s already happened. Instead, he urges listeners to focus on the present moment, recognize what they truly desire, and immediately begin moving toward that destination, without attempting to repair the past. The core message is to adopt a forward‑looking, rerouting mindset and take decisive action now.

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GPS system, right? You put a destination in the car and you start driving towards that destination, and let's say you make the wrong turn somewhere. GPS system is never going to tell you, yo, go back to where you started to figure out how to get to the destination. The GPS system is going to do what? It's going to reroute you from where you are at that present moment. And what we keep doing is we keep going to the past, we keep thinking about Our neighbors, our brother, our sister, our neighborhood, why this ain't work out. But from today, you know what you want, you know what you desire in life, so let's just start from right now and let's implement the destination that we want to be. Let's not fix nothing, don't even fix nothing.