Do you feel like you’re lost in life with no sense of direction, no sense of purpose, no great ambition or inspiration? Maybe you feel stuck. Maybe you feel stagnant. Maybe you feel like you’re at a standstill and you don’t know what to do with yourself. You’ve probably watched a dozen other videos and read a dozen other articles, looking for motivation, looking for inspiration, looking for advice on how to move forward in your life. And yet nothing seems to do it for you. Well, I may be able to offer you a different perspective.

I can’t begin to tell you how many times in my own life I’ve felt this way. And it’s not merely a feeling of being lost or stuck or unmotivated. Along with all that comes a feeling of restlessness, as if I should be doing something, but I just don’t know what. Or, I have a sense of what I should be doing, but I just don’t have the motivation, or I just don’t feel inspired in that moment . And that can be really frustrating, and even depressing. And once you get weighed down by those heavy feelings it can be very difficult to get out from under them.

But something that I’ve learned to do is to examine whatever I’m feeling, and to do my best to understand it, and more importantly to understand the cause of these feelings. It’s very easy to feel something and assume that the cause is external. That’s what usually appears to be the case. So, if you’re unhappy, you can look at the circumstances of your life and conclude...