Many times, in search of a way to meet our ends, instead we find frustration and failure. We look for ways to modify this. We always hear others say, “You have to be focused on your goal.” Then we visualize a goal and at that time the most likely way to the goal from where we are. We then plan a means to begin that path and start along the way.

Initially, most times, we find ourselves to be somewhere entirely different from the goal we set in the beginning. We are at a loss to understand how we got to be here instead of there.

The issue, when we look at it from a Quantum Mechanics perspective, is that because we are dealing with probabilities of events, it is the events that we have to choose from. In other words, it is not the path to the event that determines the event, it is the choice of the probability of a particular event that allows the event to be experienced.

It is an inversion of what seems to be common sense. The truth, though is that the common sense derives from beliefs that arise from the extension of Newtonian Physics. By Newtonian Physics we mean concepts such as ‘for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction’. These ingrained concepts lead us to the idea of material cause and effect. Before this, our concepts allowed us to believe in spirits and other non-material determinants of effects. Modern Physics leads us back to concepts of non-material determinant effects.

This allows us to conceive the idea, that it is the choice to observe a particular event-probability that enables us to experience the event. It is the initiation of the choice that determines the path of sequences that leads to the event and not the other way around. This is the actual reason why planning the path more frequently than not takes us away from the event.