Breaking Free from the Routine and Into Our Best Life

I've heard Oprah speak this phrase several times, and she even devotes part of her website and "O" Magazine to exploring and Living Your Best Life. It seems that some people are living exactly what they feel they were meant to be doing and make a terrific living at it, while others of us are continually trying to figure out what it is. It seems like it would be the easiest question in the world to answer, "What do I want?"  I think for so many of us, we've consumed our lives with so much of the superficial, the ego, the money, the stuff, and what we think we're supposed be doing, that we become disoriented in a very thick fog of confusion. In all of that we consume ourselves with gaining approval and impressing others and completely forget about what makes ourselves genuinely happy. I know that I've struggled with that same question especially after experiencing loss, and wondering "so what's next, and "what do I want?" Sometimes it seems so difficult to break free from our routine than to embark on something exciting and new. Perhaps there's a bigger purpose behind the meaning of loss that can sometimes be that silver lining in disguise, a reality check, or that integral wake-up call to begin living our best life.