I’ll bet that title threw you! Unless you’ve just realized that is what the main screen on your GPS navigation device says!

See, though a GPS has several different functions, its two primary purposes are to calculate and set out a journey for you, or to simply provide you with a moving map of the terrain around you. When you select “where to” to the GPS guides you through a series of steps from where you are right now to where you want to go, and sets out a complete travel plan for you, including your route, the time involved, the turns you’ll take, and it keeps you on the right route by showing that route in a beautiful bright color, Magenta, in my GPS.  On the other hand, if you just select view map, all it does is tell you exactly where you are at any given moment, not where you need to go, or how, or when you’ll get there.

I really see the GPS as an allegory of the two types of lives we can lead. We can lead the unexamined life, the one most people are living, by hitting “view map” and simply observing things around us, without any specific plan to get us somewhere, and no guidance at all. Or, we can hit “where to” and begin that wonderful journey to a new life of fitness, holistic joyful living, and great hope and confidence.

The book, Body for Life, is the “where to” part of your GPS here! And it will answer every question you need to plan, begin and complete your journey in the best way possible. Continuing to live life the way you are now is the “view map” function. You certainly can look in a mirror or take a brisk walk and get an excellent idea of exactly where you are, and exactly what it all looks like around you. And such a look around may convince you that you need to hit the “back” button, and then select “where to.”

Buy the book, and read it carefully. If reading is not your cup of tea, then get the book on CD and listen to it carefully. Take notes. There is no computer to do all this for you, but the book provides all the programming you’ll need and all the inspiration you’ll need to do it yourself!

There are a zillion books out there. But there are only a handful of 12 week complete body transformation programs. And Body for Life is by the far the best and most effective of them all.  Are you ready? Do you see those two buttons? Reach up there and “mash” as we used to say when I lived in Kansas the button that says “where to?” Then type in: “To a new life of leanness, joy, peace and confidence.” Then, get busy reading that book and let’s make this happen!