When stepping into new territory, starting a new project, or gracefully exiting a bad situation. There is no one or nothing that can tell you what to do.
When there is no instruction manual, we have the opportunity to make decisions in a way that makes us proud.
All of a sudden, just when you don’t have a map… you start to become clear and really develop your moral compass, and that is better anyway.
You keep doing “the next right thing” and developing your compass, and “what’s next” begins to look after itself.
Just the other day Seth Godin wrote a riff on maps and compasses, and it reminded me how hard it is when you don’t know what’s next.