What Controls You?

What controls you?  What keeps you from reaching your goals?  What makes you tick?  What are your triggers?  What makes you go off a well-woven and carefully chosen path?  What makes you feel like a fool? Are you your own worst enemy?  At the end of the day nothing will happen unless you take a long, hard look inwards and determine for yourself who or what drives you.  Sometimes, you may want to steer your life in a certain direction but fail miserably because you're not in control.  This doesn't necessarily mean that you can't hold a job or, that you can't take care of yourself, of your family.  It means that some way, somehow, you find yourself moving away from doing those things that are important to you, not finding the time to pursue those goals you've established for yourself because something is in the way.  What will it take for you to move past that thing?  Get rid of your excuses, as valid as they may be and once you do, you'll rediscover the way to real possibilities. 

I'm not a psychologist.  My posts are inspired by personal experiences and reflections and can be viewed as excerpts from a journal entry.