The best day of your life is the one in which you decide
your life is your own. No apologies or excuses.
No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.
The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey –
and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.
This is the day your life really begins.
Bob Moawad
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The gift is yours and it’s up to you to pursue it. But that doesn’t mean that you chuck it all and just immediately start following your passion. When you decide your life is your own, you still have to account for your responsibilities such as family and debt, etc. Then you have to figure out your goals. Then you have to have a plan to get to those goals. One step follows the next.
Check out What She Did After A Layoff to find out about her plan and find inspiration from these other Starting Over interviews.
You can also check out Your Best Year Ever: A Five-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals. There’s also my post on Setting Goals. Check them out to help you find your best life.
This makes me want to go all ‘I am woman! Hear me roar!
Go ahead and roar woman! ROAR!
We have all been there. Wanting to chuck it all and run away. But we can’t. We have responsibilities. And being responsible is good. Be responsible to your dreams too. Make a plan and make it happen.
Exactly. Take care of your responsibilities, but that also includes taking care of your dreams.
Carpe diem, and now I want to rewatch Dead Poets Society
And I’ll have to watch it for the first time!
Ooh it’s a good one!
Sometimes I feel as though I dropped here from another planet. I came into the world with a strong sense of self and as a result, a sense that I was in a strange land. This has become clearer to me the longer I live. And now off to see the other posts in this!
Such good advice and probably the key to real maturity. We’re responsible for everything — the good and the bad.
Yes. We are responsible for both.
My husband and I have been charged with setting 5 year financial goals now that we are nearing retirement. It feels daunting but I know it will be a great exercise. Your post reminds me to get moving on this. I often have goals but don’t write them down. Time to start a new plan.
My husband and I write down our goals together. We try to find our common goals first and then those that we want to do individually as well. That way we constantly know the direction we’re going in.
That is a great idea. We have done that before but it has been a while since we have done it formally. I’m going to set up a time this weekend for us to get something down on paper!
We try to revisit it once a year just to make sure we’re still going down the same path. Some minor goals have changed, but the major ones haven’t. Here is a post on how my husband and I go about goal setting. https://www.unfoldandbegin.com/setting-goals-for-2016/