I am guilty of spending a good chunk of many of my lazy, pajama-clad Saturdays wandering aimlessly around the blogosphere. Why? Because if there is one thing I sincerely believe (with all my little heart even), it’s that you can’t see the good in the world, or in the human beings inhabiting it, if all you do is look down your nose at people. And today in my internet travels, I haplessly stumbled upon something that I thought (and think) is quite brilliant. The holy grail of blogging, as it were. Yes, really.
And I’m up for it.
The concept is simple, and it’s simply this: Pick a word,
any word…a word that you want to define your life from this day until until your last day. And, instead of over-complicating my choice, I went with the first word
that popped into my pointy little noggin’:
CHANGE.
Throughout my 33-years on this big blue marble that we call
Earth, in the overall spectrum of the totality that is the universe, I have had
an opportunity to reinvent myself on several occasions. This year is no
exception, but rather, this year is the rule. The theme for this is year is change.
Personal, financial, spiritual…it’s time to change my ways and fill my cup.
For the last four years, I pressed the pause button on my
life. I let someone else control the music I danced too. Now that radio is off
(for good), and I get to choose to change the soundtrack for the rest of my
life.
How?
I’m glad you asked.
This year it’s time to actually do the things I always talk
about doing. It’s time to travel, to see the world; to create an income stream
that will keep me and my girls comfortable for many years to come (and I can
write from anywhere, including sandy beaches where I do nothing buy type and
sip on cocktails with umbrellas in them). It’s time to give more back to my
community, time to finish my books, time to have some fun…but most of all, it’s
time to get busy living, because hiding
in my house and getting closer to the end of my life with each tick tick tick of the clock, is no way to live. It’s
time to be bold, to be daring, to be brave and to just BE ALIVE.
What’s in store for me? I don’t know yet. That chapter is being written everyday. However, what I do know is that I fully intend to fill my
life cup full of adventures, experiences and a chance to soak up every different,
cool, new spontaneous experience I can that doesn’t involve me sitting aimlessly behind my laptop...
And it’s all thanks to one little, tiny word: Change…well, a change in my perspective
that is.
Take a moment to think about what YOUR definitive word might be…and
please share it with me…and why you chose it…I want to know!
And today’s selection from the ‘Soundtrack of Life’ (I know,
I know, there will be an explanation on that soon) is….
