I recently had a wake up call, one that I have a hard time admitting to because what I am about to share is not a novel idea and really is something we should know for ourselves.

I got a chance recently to engage in conversation with a gentleman who wanted to invest proceeds from a pension payout that he was expecting. By chance I laughingly said to him “time to start enjoying life now”. He looked at me in a way that caused me some discomfort and said “no”. He then went on to say that he enjoyed every day of his life and that is how we must live. Emphasis on “must”.

Extremely disappointed by my short sighted exclamation, I quickly agreed with him while muttering “that was what I meant”.. – yea right!


In life we can be shortsighted and I do believe that most of us will wait on a special moment or significant event before we truly believe that we can enjoy life.

But seriously, is that how it should be?

This week I encourage all of us to consider this; are we going through the motions? Then waiting on vacation or retirement or the kids going off to begin to enjoy  life?  Let us be honest with ourselves. What does it take for us to enjoy ourselves? What are we waiting on?

This week, choose to smile more, laugh more,share jokes. Life is not all about being serious. Throw caution or “waiting” to the wind. Begin to deliberately and intentionally enjoy every aspect of life everyday. It may “shave off ” a few years while reducing our stress level and stabilizing all that need stability 🙂