With the start of 2012, I’ve been reflecting on the changes I would like to make. Changes in my attitude, in my ways, in my personal life.

So often I get caught up in the busyness of my life, that I miss out. So much living that I’d like to do, and do it right, not later, but NOW!

now:

  • at the present time or moment:
  • without further delay; immediately; at once
  • at this time or juncture in some period under consideration
  • at the time or moment immediately past

As I pondered the changes I’d like to make, changes in my attitude, in the things I do, or don’t do, I began to make a mental list of everything I’d like to stay on top of this year. The list began to get long, and I know what happens when I have long lists. I start off great, work real hard towards knocking things off that list one by one. I do awesome for a while, I feel invigorated!

Then, slowly, but surely, things come up in life, things change, routines have to change, the list becomes unmanageable in the way in which I designed it, and it becomes doomed to failure. Slowly, but surely.

Sound familiar?

As I continued to reflect on this, and this list of changes continued to float around inside my head, I realized one consistent theme in all the changes I’d like to make this year.

I want to do things right, and do it now. I want to live life right, and live it NOW!

I don’t want to keep putting things off, until a better time.

So much of our family’s life is on “hold” because we’re trying to sell our homestead. We’re waiting, and constantly saying things like, “When we sell the house…”

“When we sell the house, we’ll be together as a family again.”
“When we sell the house, our finances won’t be so strained.”
“When we sell the house…
I’ll have time to do more riding, more fun schooling, more crafting, more playing…”
“When we sell the house, we can start ‘living’ again…”

And the list goes on… and on… and on…

We can’t change that we’re trying to sell our house, it is what it is, and obviously we still have a while to wait some more. The economy is not great, acreage properties are not selling quickly in our area, and our hands are tied.

BUT,  there’s absolutely nothing stopping me from doing everything I know in my heart that I should do, everything I WANT to do, the LIVING, the RIGHT THINGS I want to do with my children, right NOW.

Nothing truly stands in my way.

So my new motto for 2012 is:

Live Life Right… NOW!

All the things I know are “right” to do, the things I always want to do, like telling my husband & children that I love them, telling them I am PROUD of them, giving them a hug, doing something special for them for no reason, taking rabbit trails in our daily life because it’s fun, and almost always a learning experience! Rather then waiting to do these things (and then forgetting to do these thigns…), I want to do them right, live life right, and live it now. Not later.

Being kind to a neighbour, opening a door with a smile for a stranger, taking an extra 15 minutes to groom my horse instead of feeding her quickly so I can get back to work. Reading the kids one more story, snuggling an extra 10 minutes before they go to bed, rather then being in a hurry to finish the day.

When I hear that still soft voice whisper to me…
“stay a little while, enjoy these moments just a little longer…”
I will remind myself, “Live life right, Live it NOW!”