I'm with Jerry on the "Letting the Lord guide me" but it takes so much personal committment and letting go of ones own will. I also make plans for my life, hoping they are in Gods will but if I am wrong in my thinking, a barrier will present itself and I have to re-direct myself. If however I am in His will, doors just seem to open for me. I pray about most things and usually get an answer...even if it's not quite what I want to hear in my sense of spirit.
We all have choices, through the freewill we have been given...how good a job we make of those choices is down to us.....I still mess up frequently but know that where I fail, through my failure God will prevail and succeed. I want to become what He wants me to be and am trying hard...It's the way I choose. Best wishes.