KEEPING OUR DREAMS ALIVE

It took a long time to make life simpler. You almost can’t do it unless you make a conscious effort. Life is always intruding and, as the late Gilda Radner said, “It’s Always Something”. How right she was.

I wrote last month about the people who are Busy Being Busy. Some of them, of course, have a reason to be; they are called Parents. Others make a virtue out of their disorganization. These I know will still be overloaded were I to speak to them next week, next month or even years from now.

Life really is a matter of priorities. You usually do what you want to do the most first, or certainly as soon as you possibly can. This is especially true with Men who tend to be hard wired into goal oriented pursuits which they perform one after another, usually in the order which interests them.

Women, on the other hand, travel through life, with a ‘Wish List’ of Dream places and things that they want and hope to have ‘Someday’.

If you don’t make Someday come sooner rather than later, you may find it has become impossible to realize your dreams. Your clock may just run out or you could become unable to cope physically or mentally.

Let’s face it, some of us are never going to have enough money to feel that going after our dreams today might not leave us short of money for tomorrow.

However, I ask, How much is enough? Will some people ever feel they have enough? More importantly, when do you plan to do some of the things you dream about doing?

While it is true that there are times where there is too much to do and not enough time to do it; there are many other times where we can spend a little extra time thinking about where we can pare down, eliminate and generally reorganize our time and our lives to, sooner rather than later, have a life we like better.

The extra time we have gained can begin to be used to check off a bit of the Wish List and also to add new items and keep our dreams alive and accessible.