A few weeks ago my friend, Bernie, sent me article, written in The Advocate, entitled, The New 60. In it, writer, Robert Levithan, talks about an exercise he recently learned:
"Go three years into the future and describe, in present tense, your life as you want it to be. Really go for it- within the realm of possibility: If I say I am playing short stop for the Yankees, it ain't gonna happen, but if I say I have a book on The New York Times best-seller ...
For years I've had a type of love-hate relationship with my life...most specifically my goals and dreams. I have so many things that I want to do and accomplish, and sometimes I feel like it's either too late to make some of them happen, that I don't have what it takes to make them happen, or that I'm just not in the right place to make them happen. Fortunately for me, feelings aren't an accurate representation of what actually is, nor are they in charge ...
This has been a great week! The past few weeks, really, have been well above average. For the first time in a long time, I feel emphatically content and happy with the life that I am leading and the direction in which I'm heading. I've got my job, my health, my friends and family; and there are little pieces of promise and opportunity fluttering all around me that I'm eagerly collecting and placing in my "to-do" bag of purpose and legacy.
Within all ...
So often, amidst all the talk of living our dreams and achieving our goals, we are led to believe that life is a competition. There are so many of us who seem to be racing towards the same finish line that it becomes hard not to think of besting the other racers on the track and leaving them choking on our dust. At the same time, as we look to surpass the dreamers and "haters" around us, we begin to compare their lives and successes to our own- leading ...
