What are your personal metaphors?

Daniel Pink emphasizes the importance of metaphors.

In his book A Whole New Mind—Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, Pink says that metaphors can help you understand the world and also can help you find meaning in your life.

Ask yourself, Pink suggests: What are the metaphors you live by? Do you think of your life as a journey? Or, do you think of your life as a treadmill?