We are coming to the end of the work week.  So how did you do?  Did you make it through with progress towards your beacons?  Do you feel like the week was a success?

When we work for a living, we often times simply “get by.”  However, that is not an excuse to “wait until”  something else happens before we start living our lives.  Fill in your own “wait until.”  It could be “I’m waiting until the kids start high school.  I’m waiting until the kids are out of college.  I’m waiting until I get a new job.  I’m waiting until I retire.”  The list goes on and on.

If you made it through this week and you have not made any progress towards your beacons, it may be time to reevaluate, or to set some beacons.  This is the day to evaluate your week and to decide if you were living the life that you care to live.  If not, what could you have done to make it different?  What is holding you back from the happiness and joy that you seek?

When we play back the “game film” of the prior few days, we can objectively assess our life.  We can look at events that may have occurred and review our behaviors.  We can look to see if this is how we care to live our lives for the foreseeable future.  Is this a week that you would like to use as a “model week” for the rest of your life?

Most likely, you would like to make some changes.  However, if we never objectively assess our life, without emotion, we cannot even know that there are changes we would like to make.  If we do not have the information, we might think there is something we would like to change, but we will not know for sure until we assess ourselves.

Now, think about the upcoming week that will start when you roll out of bed on Monday.  Are you going to be excited and passionate about the upcoming week, or are you simply going to go into “survival mode” to just get through it?   Figure out next week now, while you are at the end of the current week.  It’s much easier to dictate how your life will be when you are in a relaxed state, such as on a vacation or the weekend.

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This is the life that you have chosen, for whatever reason.  Find your passions and follow them.  That will give you the excitement and inspiration to enjoy your work as much as your play!

Written, Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 7:21 – 7:30 AM MDT