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What Would You Do if You Had One Month to Live?

By on May 17, 2013 in Life Juice, Mind Matters

What would you do differently if you only had one month to live? Would you change jobs or leave relationship? Would you apologize or be more caring to others? Would you take a risk you’ve always wanted to take? Everyone’s answer will be different. The book One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life by Kerry & Chris Shook can help you answer those questions and guide you along that journey of changing the way you live your life.

From the book:

“Be brutally honest with yourself. Your time on earth is limited. Shouldn’t you start making the most of it? If you knew you had one month to live, you would look at everything from a different perspective. Many of the things you do now that seem so important would immediately become meaningless. You would have total clarity about what matters most, and you wouldn’t hesitate to be spontaneous and risk your heart. You wouldn’t wait until tomorrow to do what you need to do today. The way you lived that month would be the way you wished you had lived your whole life.

If you knew you had one month to live, your life would be radically transformed. But why do we wait until we’re diagnosed with cancer or we lose a loved one to accept this knowledge and allow it to free us? Don’t we want all that life has to offer? Don’t we want to fulfill the purpose for which we were created? Wouldn’t life be a lot more satisfying if we lived this way?

I’m challenging you to start living your life as though you have one month to live, and I’ve designed this book to help you. There are four universal principles in the one-month-to-live lifestyle: to live passionately, to love completely, to learn humbly, and to leave boldly. I’ve divided this book into four sections or “weeks” accordingly, and I encourage you to live these next thirty days as if they were your last.”

I find this book to be fascinating, thought-provoking and inspiring. Happy reading! What will you do with your one month?

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Enjoy It While You Can…The Secret to a Well-Lived Life

By on May 10, 2013 in Life Juice

 

Have you ever had one of those weeks when everything seems to be going well, maybe it’s only little things, but stress is pretty low and life is good?

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It just occurred to me, that I’m having one of those weeks…son promoted to supervisor, college daughter named to a national list for architecture students, other children well and happy, husband home with no deployment in immediate future, my mother who has kept off significant weight loss walking 5 miles a day and enjoying good health. Yeah, life is good…for the moment.

The unfortunate thing about these days, weeks, periods, is that they don’t last. They can’t last. Life just doesn’t work that way.

…But they do help to balance out the nail-biting, hand wringing, anxious or tearful, what am I going to do weeks.

Life is like a seesaw, some days are good, some days are bad, and some days are just there. The problem is that we don’t often notice the good days until they’re replaced by the bad ones. We only see them in the rearview mirror after the time for celebrating them is past.

I think I’m learning that the key to a good life is the ability to revel in the delight of a run-of-the-mill, pretty darn good day while it’s happening.(Feel free to tweet that)

And though I can’t claim to always whether the bad times with grace, I hope at least I can meet them with determination, and a conviction that they will pass.

I truly believe that when we can master both of these practices then we will have found the secret to a well-lived life.

 

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It’s Not Too Late to Choose

By on May 6, 2013 in Life Juice, Mind Matters

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Think about the choices you make every day…the choices you’ve made in the past…and the choices you need to make now.

We have, especially in America, in the 21st century an almost unheard of wealth of choices ranging from the mundane, what I want to eat for dinner, and which cell phone provider to go with, to the potentially life altering, what work I want to do, where I want to live, and how I vote.

Some days it may not feel like we have choices; often it feels as though life chooses its own path and we are just being dragged along for the ride. But even on those days and in those situations where we feel we have no control over our circumstances, no options, we do.

We can always choose our attitude. We get to decide how to respond, and what action to take, or even to go with the flow and see what happens.

Today, give some thought to the choices you have made and continue to make each day.

Are you content with them all? What would like to change? Choose differently? Start today! It’s not too late.

Life’s too short…Use the blessing of choice wisely.

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Want to Feel Really Old?

By on May 3, 2013 in Life Juice

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Important Questions to Ask: Where? What? Why? Who? When? How?

By on April 24, 2013 in Burning Questions, Life Juice

questionsEvery once in a while, it’s good to take a step back and ask yourself these burning questions… What? Where? Who? Why? When? How?

Is this what I want to be doing with my life?

Are these the people I want to have around me?

What do I really think about this job?

Is this even where I really want to live?

How is my health? Really?

Am I happy? Sometimes it’s easier to ask am I unhappy?

Everything from how do I want to use this blog, to where do I want to go with my career, to am I happy with my spiritual path, to do I need a better exercise program, to why am I holding on to some bad old habits, to is this what I want to be teaching my children, to when is it time to downsize?

Oh so many questions! So much to think about.

It’s odd, but sometimes just taking the time to ask the questions is more important than what the answers are…

So I hope you’ll join me in some periodic introspection and assessment. You’re not afraid of what you’ll find are you?

And while I’m taking a break from our regularly scheduled program, posts may be a bit more random and on a wider variety of topics…which may or may not be more interesting. (That’s a scary thought. Ha!)

I find life endlessly fascinating… I hope you do too.

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