Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. Tomorrow is Presidents’ Day. And today? Today is your day to decide what truly matters to you.

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“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”

— Jimmy Carter

 

I’ve Been Thinking...

 
 

I’ve Been Thinking...

 

Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. Tomorrow is Presidents’ Day. And today? Today is your day to decide what truly matters to you.

Now, before you tell me that’s wishful thinking, I’d like to ask you to pause for just a moment.

We are already six weeks into the new year, and before you know it, it will be summer. Then we’ll be inundated with midterm election ads. Then Thanksgiving. Then Christmas.

This year will fly by in a flash, and you may never get to living the life you had imagined for yourself. Yes, that one. The life you were gifted with at birth. The life you haven’t had time to focus on because life is noisy, fast, challenging (and lately, unsteady, unpredictable, and even downright scary).

So pull up a chair, as I say to my kids. Let’s get into you...

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