But let me suggest an additional way you might think about the trip you're about to embark on, one in which you allow yourself to meander a bit and maybe even get a little lost once in a while.
Maybe the unlikeliest of all is the one he's embarking on Saturday at Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, where he'll lead 44 instrumentalists, augmented by a 55-voice children's choir, in the premiere of his "Symphonic Suite for Healing".
If you love people but your former job as an accountant did not put you front and center with the public, maybe this is the time to think about embarking on a career in sales, hospitality or retail.
"Parents often think, oh, we're going to be embarking on this sophisticated wealth transfer strategy so maybe we should talk to them about investments and assets," she said.
Perhaps you were busy — oh, I don't know, maybe contemplating the unemployment rate or learning to darn holes in old socks or embarking on a promising new career in the booming field of squirrel hunting.
Maybe something like it can grow out of the listening tour that various Republican power players are embarking on this month.
I know exactly what Perry means about embarking on a book you feel you ought to read – and then realising that, hang on, maybe it's a classic because it's good, not because it's hard.
The novel is maybe a third too long, chiefly because as he wanders around King can hardly see a place, a face or a chair without embarking on a wordy, if not literary, description of it.
He was also embarking on his autobiography.
Are you embarking on a new novel?
Other cities are embarking on similar plans.
