> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.gilespcroft.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Seeing the path - URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/seeing-the-path/ - Published: 2024-12-07T07:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-16T22:27:19.000Z - Description: A selection of career path-related quotes to drum some common-sense into you! 👨🏻‍🏫 - Author: Giles P Croft - Tags: Careers, Life change, IMPLICATIONS Out walking & talking and it was dank as you like. Quiet and still. (I feel compelled to use the word “ethereal”.) A visible mist connected all objects together (how apt). Anyway, we could seldom see the path. And I know this hill like the back of my hand, but we were engrossed in conversation and my attention was 100% on that and there came a point when I turned to my client and 'fessed up: > *“I have no idea where we are right now, by the way. I don't know where this leads. Shall we continue?”* --- It brought to mind a litany of quotes about our path through life, towards some destination or other that we feel pulled towards. Here’s a selection for you: ❝ > **“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”** \~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ❝ > **“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”** \~ Barack Obama ❝ > **“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.”** \~ Rosalia de Castro ❝ > **“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”** \~ Abraham Lincoln ❝ > **“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”** \~ Martin Luther King Jr. --- How many times do you have to hear so many different people say the same thing, before you start taking it seriously? ⚠️ ****You don't need to see the path.** So many of us stop ourselves in our tracks because we “can't see the way” or “can't see how.” ➤ Of course you can't see the way – it's not been created yet! ➤ Of course you can't see how – you've not discovered that yet! Moment to moment, you do one small thing that advances your cause. That's it. That's all it takes. Introduce a variable. Reassess. Introduce a variable. Reassess. And watch what happens. One more quote and I've saved the best 'til last. Joseph Campbell, one of my heroes, who has informed my career-change work maybe more than any other: ❝ > **“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or a path, it is someone else's path - you are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realise your potential.”** \~ Joseph Campbell Enjoy the journey. 💟 Giles SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY REMINDERS newsletter [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2025/12/DR_Lockup-Black-1.png)](#/portal/signup) Want to start **your* days with helpful, insightful content like this? The Daily Reminder is a quick, lighthearted email that arrives in your inbox, to help keep you grounded in reality, so that you get to **‘Think less, and live more.’* **“They feel like a moment of stillness in a world of madness.” \~* Neil, UK **“One of those small things with big impact. Honestly, just sign up!”* \~ Paula, UK [GET YOURS NOW ](#/portal/signup) ### Related [Not knowingIf you don’t know what to do, there’s only one thing that’s going to help 👀![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/icon/DR_Lockup-Black-3-5fb9486a-91c2-4b64-8538-fba0264b6c88.png)The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/thumbnail/photo-1629441057197-280c511f5ff7-717eaf1e-14f9-4efc-8021-78e162a21bb9.jpg)](https://www.gilespcroft.com/not-knowing/)