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An Urgent Reminder and a Little Bit of Tough Love —
Here’s how to stop waiting to be happy, love your life right now, and clear room for it to get way, way better
This time of year is tricky. It feels like it should get slower. School is winding down, the days are getting longer, and summer break will be here before we know it. But there’s a bittersweet element too. Summer is sweet, but so so short, and so busy.
It will come and go in an instant, and then there will be a whirlwind in the fall, before the craziness of the holiday season, and then 2019 will be over. OVER. Another summer, another fall, another year, gone, just like that. You don’t need me to tell you that you only get 18 summers with your children, do you? How many do you have left?
It’s in that spirit of urgency that I offer a gentle but forthright reminder to make the most of your life. What do you want for your summer? What do you want for your children’s childhoods? What do you really really want?
Right now, weeks away from the mid-point of 2019, is the perfect time for a little self-reflection.
