Painting by Belynda Wilson Thomas
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller
If we wonder how we will get everything done, we need to tackle what is most important first. Then, even if everything doesn’t get done, if we get the important things done, it is a good day. If we get all the unimportant things done, but not what was most important, it isn’t such a good day.
Last week, I was getting up at five every day, and by Thursday, I felt like I was coming down with something. A nap in the afternoon, and getting up later on Friday made whatever it was disappear. We need to take care of ourselves because we can’t care for others well if we aren’t in good form.
What if we can have what we want if we know what it is and make it a priority in our lives? Are we setting goals, prioritizing our time, and living the life we want? If we have things we want in life we don’t have yet, what do they look like, and what would it take to get them?
Do we need a life renovation or just a tweak here or there? Is travel one of our goals, where do we want to go, for how long, and what keeps us from booking the ticket? Is there a hobby or interest we would like to bring into our life? Can we start small?
We don’t have control over some of the things we might want in our lives. Other people have to make our dream of becoming a grandparent come true. We aren’t in control of that, but many parts of our lives we do control. By controlling what we can and figuring out what is most important to us we can make the time we have count.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences. Eleanor Roosevelt
It seems eighty years old is the age when people start doing less, so we need to get to the things we want to do, and the places we want to go before that magical age.
A new year is fast approaching, what goals will we set? Is this the year we… When we look over the year ending did we accomplish what we set out to do? Did we make some special memories and tick something off our bucket list? Do we have a bucket list of things we want to do before we die? Have we written down our dreams so they can become goals and then turn them into reality? Do our goals seem too small or too big, too few, or too many?
Wherever we are on our journey it is time to take stock. What do we want next year to be like? What do we want to be, to have, or do? Is there a big, hairy, audacious goal we have yet to reach? If not, what would that goal look like, what would it take to set an audacious goal? How will it feel if we attain that goal? What goal will we set next?
If we attain the biggest goal we can imagine but don’t have another goal to set we will enjoy the victory but be lost without a new goal. Some goals are so big we never fully attain them like building the best marriage, family, and character, and becoming the kindest, most loving, grateful, and generous person. We can never read all the books; there will always be something to read and learn no matter how old we become.
This is our adventure, what will the next chapter bring? Are we riding the roller coaster of life with curiosity and enthusiasm?
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we will find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adventure isn’t about seeking danger or taking risks; it’s about embracing life with a sense of curiosity and enthusiasm. Unknown
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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