Summer is almost over

There seems to be a sadness that it's August and Summer is almost over. Feels like it just got started. We had a late winter and to have school starting in a couple of weeks in boggling where the time goes. I look back and can't believe we've been here almost two years already. On the contrary, I wake up in the morning facing another day at work and it drags on and on. It's a joke between us that the clock stops at 8:00am. We bid out for the latest lunch possible just to make the afternoon go by. I'm not ready for summer to end. Dawson is growing much too fast and this time next year will be in Kindergarten. I already feel unprepared.

My friend Holly took summer pictures for us the other day. I love them! It depicts our summer so well. The fields of Idaho amidst the wheat. It will always capture the time we spent here when Dawson is older and we look back.

As I continue to contemplate our future, I've been doing a lot of reading lately. Shannon loaned me a book called "Execution, the art of getting things done". How appropriate is that. It's an excellent book. I often times find myself wanting to do something, have the initiative and will to do it, but to execute is a totally different story. And not only to execute, but execute well. I'm looking forward to finishing it.

I got a quote today: The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now by Zig Ziglar. This is SO my life. A defining moment when every decision made over the past 3 to 4 years has fit into this very simple phrase. Our family grew up in the moment, I admit. A seeing my parents die at such an early age - they almost did it right. Enjoyed every single minute, then poof - you are gone. 59 is much to young to die and I don't want to die that young, but there is argument to be made for living in the moment. I live by that philosophy, yet was recently called out on NOT living in the moment and looking ahead with anxiety too often. Almost chronically. It made me think and reflect on many things in my life.

The simple matter is this - the same philosophy I educate clients on and have the desire to live by - what legacy do you want to leave? Something to think about as the summer comes to a close and "play" time is suppose to be done.