Live your life

So get this… everybody has dreams right? Right. But at some point in their life, young or old, rich or poor, happy or sad – everyone has, not just dreams, but a dream. A goal. A wish. An idea of how “x” would be if “y” would happen. So what did happen? What thing occurred (or didn’t occur) that caused “y” to never see the light of day. When did the dream die?

Truth is, things happen. People grow up. Dreams fade. It’s just the eventuality of life as we know it. Peter Pan has to eventually leave Never Never Land… and get a job. Otherwise, who’s paying the rent and buying the pancakes? Sorry, I really like pancakes. But you get it. Life happens and a lot of times, those dreams get pushed aside for the things that reality requires, even at the expense of our this-could’ve-been-me’s.

At some point, though, you really have to make a decision. That decision. The one that will determine if you will continue down the same road just because it’s where you’ve seemingly always been. Or step on out there and take that chance. Make that move. Because to be honest, greatness never grows from a comfortable place. Nobody just wakes up and finds a million dollars under their pillow. (And if they do, my number is 555…)

But really… there comes a time when regardless of how you were treated as a child, who hurt you in the past, what did or didn’t come through, where you needed to feel the love but it never came… everybody has to take an honest assessment of where they currently are in live and decide if that’s where they want to be. We all have limitations – some way more so than others. Life is cruel, and unfair, and so many other awful things. But it’s also a gift, and every day you breathe is another day to be just a little bit better than you were the day before. But for the vast majority of us, that greatly and solely depends on us.

So today’s message is to live your life. Live it. Cause no one else can live it for you. And every action has a reaction, a consequence. So please don’t be fooled into thinking I am telling you to go be reckless. I am not. But live with intent. Live with purpose. Live. Be better. Because at the end of if all, we’re each accountable for what we did, and didn’t do with the breath we were given.

What are you doing with yours today? Me and mine have big plans…