What do you want to do with the rest of your life?

09 December 2007

There is only so much time in the day.

We can either enjoy our journey through life, or work at something we hate and try to squeeze everything else into the little free time that is left.

The good news: the solution is in your hands.

The bad news: the solution is in your hands.

No matter what your current situation, you can morph it into your dream existence. The journey will have its cost... most likely this will be Time. Well, that time will pass, whether you make a start or not. Time is a kinda indifferent entity.

If you are sharing our life through this blog, then you know I'm no self-satisfied millionaire pumping out "power of positive thinking" platitudes while sipping champers in my spa. My life was pretty empty, and a waste, until Daniel belted me over the head with Project Palhaco. As I bounce my ideas around here, and try them out in the real world, I hope I open a pathway to help you take responsibility for your own career, wealth, relationship or whatever. It's hard work, sure, to change your life, and it takes courage. But that clock is relentlesly ticking...

Every day of this blog is DAMN HARD WORK. Not the blog itself, that's a lot of fun. Just the day I have to live through to get to the writing, haha. Every night as I crawl - or fall - into bed [unless I stay the night in the community where there aren't any beds... yet!] it's with the smallest dent made in today, and that mountain - the future - still to be moved, tomorrow.

But tomorrow can wait. It will always be there... live NOW. Every day is a gift, every moment to be savored. I have met people who are so ill, in such pain - and they spend their days finding ways to bring a breath of happiness into the lives of those 'less fortunate'!

It took their illness to make me realise how lucky I am to be alive. And isn't it extraordinary to be alive now, and not 200 years ago, or 100 years in the future.

That statement sounds pretty stupid - until you think about it.

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