The Wake Doesn’t Drive the Boat

Deciding where to go next

Wake by Pexels from Pixabay

A “wake” is water displaced from under a moving boat. In one of the late motivational speaker Wayne Dyer’s talks in his seminar How to Get What You Really, Really, Really, Really Want, he asked: “Is it possible for the wake to drive the boat?” No, he declared. As we age, we develop narratives about how past misfortunes limit our choices. Dyer says these narratives…