I ran across an inspiring blog post this afternoon when I got home, and I just wanted to draw some attention to it.

The First Day of Your Life by Chris Guillebeau
Here’s something to consider:

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

You’ve heard that before, right? Maybe it’s like Time Is Money – something we nod our heads to before we get back to all the stuff we have to do.

Hearing that today is a new, unique day at the beginning of a new week naturally implies both good news and bad news. In the spirit of realistic optimism, we’ll take the bad news first.

Bad News: You’ll never get rimonabant prices today back. Once it’s gone, that’s it. On to tomorrow.

Good News: Right now, the day (and the whole week) is ahead of you. The choice is up to you: spend your time doing things that are unimportant or uninteresting to you, or spend it on things that move you closer to who and where you want to be.

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When we’re children our days are spent playing and having fun, always being warned by adults that some day we will have to grow up.  We use our imaginations and spend time doing anything that intrigues us.

As we get older, our imaginations seem to wane a bit and we are overcome with responsibilities, the time to have fun and play seems to be over.  The days rush past in a blur of to do lists, meetings and bill paying, we forget to take the time to stop and smell the roses.

As adults, we need to take back our lives and find the time for fun.  Step back and look at how you spend your days and cut out all the things that are unnecessary.  Spend more time with your family, especially the children and the elderly.  Sometimes putting things off leaves you with regrets.  The kids grow up so fast that it seems suddenly you turn around and your baby is a teenager, then an adult.  The elderly, your parents and grandparents won’t always be around.  I regret nothing in life so much as missing a last visit with my grandfather before he died in June.  We knew he was getting bad, but where can i buy prescription drugs without a prescription I kept putting it off saying I would take the kids to see him on Saturday instead, he died Thursday.  I knew how he loved to have the kids visit him, my last visit a month before he died was the one thing he talked about all those weeks spent in the hospital, he told everyone about it. (I was the only grandchild that took the time to take my children in to see him – a man with 18 grand kids, 28 great-grand kids, and even a few great-greats.)

Some things shouldn’t be put on hold, no matter how busy your professional life is.  No one ever died wishing they had spent more time at work!