Try This With Me: The Where Your Eyes Go Challenge

Earlier this week, I shared the title of my book: Where Your Eyes Go: How to Build a Life You Love From Whatever You’ve Been Dealt.

The idea behind it is simple. Skiers, riders, and drivers all learn it early: you go where you look. Stare at the tree, and you’ll hit the tree. Look at the open path, and your body finds its way there. Life works the same way.

Reading about it is one thing. Living it is another. So this week, I’d love for you to try it with me.

The Where Your Eyes Go Challenge

Seven days, a few minutes a day. Grab a notebook or the notes app on your phone.

1. Day 1: Notice. Where do your eyes keep landing? Write down the “trees” you keep staring at: the worries, the old stories, the what-ifs.
2. Day 2: Choose. Pick one open path. What do you want more of in your life right now?
3. Day 3: Name it. Write it as one sentence that starts with “I am…” and put it somewhere you’ll see it every day.
4. Day 4: Take one small step. Do one thing, however small, that moves you toward that path.
5. Day 5: Catch and redirect. Each time you notice your eyes drifting back to a tree, gently turn them back to your path. No judgment, just a redirect.
6. Day 6: Say it out loud. Tell one person you trust where you’re turning your eyes.
7. Day 7: Look back. What shifted this week, even a little? What surprised you?

There’s no wrong way to do this. If you miss a day, just pick up where you left off.

Tell me how it goes

Drop a comment below with the open path you’re choosing. It can be one word or a whole paragraph. Saying it where someone else can see it makes it real.

Then come back at the end of the week and share what you noticed. With your okay, I may share a few of your stories in a future update.

Help me shape the book

This book is for you, so I’d love your input while I’m still writing it. In the comments, answer one (or all) of these:

• What’s one thing you’re hoping a book like this could help you with?
• What kinds of stories inspire you most: the funny ones, the hard ones, or the comeback ones?
• Is there a question you’ve always wished someone would ask you?

I read every comment, and your answers will help shape the You Are the Change sections at the end of each chapter.

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Here’s to the open path,

Aubrey