The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience – Eleanor Roosevelt

Ok, let me see a show of hands for those of you who generate a checklist of to-dos or tasks because even more than that happy feeling of being organized is that joyful sense of accomplishment in check-marking what you completed.  

I like my lists.   Historically, I have also been one to generate a list that exceeded the time available in a day.   (Did I just see you re-raise your hand?)  Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t intentional, or at least not consciously intentional.   I didn’t have an inner voice shouting come on, that list is too short.  You aren’t exceeding twenty-four hours yet.    But I did have a noisy voice within that was overriding my soul’s desire to feel the experiences of the day.   That noisy voice was wanting me to do all day. 

I am going to give you this challenge.   I share it on behalf of two visitors that stopped outside my window yesterday reminding me I have time as their symbolism of longevity graced my day at that exact moment I was feeling myself begin to dance with “not enough time” as my thoughts went through the checklist of things on my Monday list.    

When you wake up to start your Thursday (or whatever day you wish to pick), think of three things you most want to achieve in your day.    What three things matter most?   Listen to your body react and respond when you think of what those three things are.    Is your body tensing up because you are hearing someone else’s voice or expectations, but it isn’t necessarily what is most meaningful to you?   Or does your body feel an exhilaration, an excitement, when you think of one of the three things?     

Now, I understand that in a given day there are many more than three things to accomplish.   And I also understand that there are some things we need to do that are not necessarily our greatest joys to do.   And yet, on the other hand, with only 86,400 moments in each day, and in that given day we will only get done what we can in that 86,400 moments, how do you want to fill that time?   And in filling it, what will leave you with the best feelings from the experiences?    Because it is in how we feel the experiences of the day that leave us with the memories of how we spent those moments.  Not the check marks we placed next to the number of “done”s.