If you want to know where your life is going, stop guessing and start auditing.
Your future is not some distant mystery. It’s right in front of you, playing out quietly in your daily habits, behaviors, and choices. The road you’re on has a clear destination—you just have to look down long enough to see where it leads.
Here’s a life-changing exercise: make two lists. That’s it. Two simple lists that can shift your direction and possibly change your life.
List One: The Reality Check
Write down every habit, behavior, and task you do on a typical day. Don’t sugarcoat it. Don’t justify or explain it. Just be brutally honest. Morning to night.
Here’s an example:
Snooze the alarm three times
Scroll social media for 45 minutes before getting out of bed
Skip breakfast
Complain on the way to work
Procrastinate on key tasks
Drink 3 cups of coffee but barely any water
Skip workout again
Binge Netflix at night
Go to bed too late
Maybe some good things are in there too:
Call a friend to check in
Read 10 pages of a book
Journal for 5 minutes
Take care of a pet
Work diligently for a few focused hours
Good or bad, put them all down.
List Two: The Trajectory Map
Now, look at each of those behaviors and play them out over 1 year, 3 years, 5 years. Where do they lead?
For example:
Snoozing the alarm daily leads to always being rushed, never starting the day with intention.
Procrastinating on tasks leads to missed opportunities and chronic stress.
Skipping workouts leads to low energy, weight gain, and declining health.
Reading 10 pages a day leads to finishing 12+ books a year—more growth, better thinking.
Checking in with friends strengthens relationships and emotional resilience.
This is the trajectory map. You are projecting the compounding effect of your daily choices.
Step Three: Adjust the Road
Now that you’ve seen where your habits lead, do this:
- Remove one negative behavior—just one. Choose the easiest thing to eliminate. Maybe it’s cutting 15 minutes off your social media time. Maybe it’s not eating after 9 PM. Keep it simple. Momentum starts with simplicity.
- Add one positive habit—if you don’t have many, choose one daily action that feels easy but helpful. Drink a glass of water first thing in the morning. Walk for 10 minutes. Write down 3 things you’re grateful for.
The goal is not to overhaul your life overnight. It’s to start moving toward a different outcome—one small shift at a time.
The Power of the Audit
This exercise isn’t a one-time thing. It’s something to revisit monthly, quarterly, or whenever life feels off track.
Why?
Because your day is the blueprint of your life. The smallest tasks you repeat daily are the building blocks of your destiny.
If you don’t like the direction things are going, don’t wait for life to correct it. You correct it—by auditing, adjusting, and aligning.
Your future is already written—in your habits. Change your habits, and you change the ending.
Make the two lists.
See the trajectory.
Make the shift.
The road ahead is yours to build.
