What is Your Quest?
The average life expectancy in the US is just shy of 79 years. So let’s say 80, and look at your life in four pieces. You’ve got 0-20, which is largely about snugglies, schoolwork and setting forth on your own. Then 20-40 — work and family. 40-60 — work and family are slowing down if you’re lucky, and 60-80, which varies based on a lot of factors.
We all have different circumstances — advantages from birth, talents, IQ’s, mistakes with long reaches, accidents and family. But the one thing we have in common is that we’re alive (unless you’re reading this in heaven. PM me), and that while we don’t know how many days we get to be alive . . . there are too few. Too few days to savor the smell of freshly diapered babies. Too few days to see all the different landscapes of the earth. And too few days in the first three parts of our lives to feel prepared for the last one.
I’m in the third of the four parts. It happens to be the best so far — I love my work, my relationship with My Tom, my other relationships. I came out on the shiny side of some very harsh circumstances — I’m a better person for having gone through them and I like how they refined me. My kids are nearly grown, and while I hate knowing those sweet baby days are over, I’m happy and relieved to see that they are turning out well.
Nevertheless, that last forth looms. Will my knees hold out? Will my finances stretch to the end? Where will I live?
This is universal, so I’m writing to you.
What stage are you in? How are you preparing for the next stage? If you are in the second stage, you might feel like you have a million years before you turn sixty. I’m here to tell you, it’s actually closer to like fifteen minutes. If you’re in the third stage with me, you might be scrambling, trying to prepare.
WHAT IS YOUR PLAN?
If you haven’t got a clear, defined plan for your future, it’s time to develop one. You should have a plan for all of your pursuits — family, money, other goals. But this blog is focused on your business, so let’s spend a couple of blogs doing this.
Your life.
