The Present....The Greatest Gift You've Ever Received

Have you ever read a great book and not wanted to finish it? You know when you stall at reading the last three pages so that you hold off on finding out who the murdered was, or who the orphan's Mother was, or who the character behind all those bandages was? We've all done it. We hold the suspense so that we don't get to the end and shut the book. Inevitably we HAVE to read the last few pages, finish the book and start a new one.

We hold on to those last few pages, as if this was the last book we'd ever read. How silly? Of course we're going to read another book. Maybe one that is more exciting, more suspenseful, or one that becomes your new favorite. You may have to read a lot of books in between the one you didn't want to finish and your new found favorite book. I am confident that you will find another, and another and another to satisfy your addiction to the suspense, mystery and excitement of your last favorite book.

Ok, lets be honest, I'm of course using a "BOOK" as a metaphor for anything else in your life that you need to let go of. What are we so afraid of. Something new is always around the corner and if you don't let go of what or who you're holding on to, you never give yourself the chance or the opportunity to be open to anything else.

Take a risk, finish the last three pages of the greatest book you ever read (or at least that's what you think when you're reading it and procrastinating about reading the ending). Quit that dead end job that is making you miserable. Stop procrastinating about something you know you should have done months ago. Start that new project, hobby or passion. Investigate a new opportunity.

Life is short (I know I say this in every blog but it's so scary and so true). Stop wasting time. Stop postponing, or making excuses. Try to learn one new thing every day. Do something you were afraid of or haven't tried before. Take a risk. Conquer a fear. Sky dive, bungee jump, go back to school, or start a business. Volunteer at an old age home or a homeless shelter or a soup kitchen. Appreciate who and what you are. If you're not happy with who or what you are, then do something about it. Improve your life by opening yourself up to new possibilities. Just do one thing, it doesn't even matter what it is, just something different.

Be like Nike and "Just do it"!

Live by one of my favorite quotes that I constantly ask a close friend to recite to me even though after all the times she's said it to me, I know it by heart......

"The Past is History, The Future is a Mystery, Today is a Gift, that's why we call it the Present"

It always makes me smile...........

Need I say more??

:)