Challenge...

I have been reading a book by Og Mandino for the last few months (it is a slow, one chapter at a time kind of read) called "University Of Success". He has compiled writings from some of the most influential and key speakers/authors of the past from Dale Carnegie to Benjamin Franklin to Napoleon Hill etc.

I read a chapter this morning that has got my soul stirred once again to live a life of satisfaction and meaning. The author was Dr. Wayne W. Dyer and in the quote that killed me was this:

"Look hard at you life. Are you doing what you'd choose to be doing if you had six months to live? If not, you'd better begin doing it because, relatively speaking, that's all you have. Given the eternity of time, thirty years or six months makes no difference. Your total lifetime is a mere speck. Delaying anything simply makes no sense."

Once again, I am left with this feeling that perhaps living a life that is not fulfilling really doesn't make sense. I know that this flies in the face of what most of us have been taught to believe (i.e life is pain, nobody is truly happy, fulfillment is merely a dream, etc.)

I guess the challenge that I am issuing is this: evaluate your life. See if there just might be something that you could be doing with it that would bring ultimate pleasure and fulfillment and maybe, just maybe you should go after it despite the naysayers. Despite the risk of failure and the potential pain that disrupting your current life may bring. Perhaps we should not simply settle for what we have and what we are but instead we should be going all out after the lives of our dreams now, today.

I find myself, so often, saying "when we retire", or "when the girls get older", or "once we have more money", maybe I should stop saying those things, stop allowing myself to put off life and starting trying to figure out how to live today?

I don't know, just a thought from a man that is so awfully tired of the same old same old of life and dreaming that perhaps life could be full of fulfillment, love, adventure, happiness and true success.