I want an end to suffering and a sense of direction: listener question

I'm working my way through the course and I'm finding it to be a combination of enlightening and overwhelming-sometimes both at the same time!!

As a result of meditation(which is something that you never refer to, which I found surprising), I'm aware of my thoughts, and I often "catch myself" during the day. 

I sometimes get the sense that I'm watching myself think, but wonder if this is one part of the mind watching another part of the mind, or if that's the witness that you refer to.

I suppose my question is, once I finish the course, where to next? I say this while knowing that I spent a lot of my life being "somewhere else" , or thinking that once I get somewhere I will be happy

I know what I want( an end to suffering(worry & anxiety) and a sense of direction) but from listening to your course/podcasts etc, you seem to suggest letting things be and the universe will sort out the rest.