Technically it’s still the beginning of 2009 meaning a chance to really resolve how things will be better in your life exists. Changing to a sabbatical mindset doesn’t mean you’ll actually take a break from your work this year. It just means you can start thinking differently. It’s possible, you know.
The story goes that in the 60’s and 70’s Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens and other ordinary folk lived (had fun, made love, smoked dope, hung out, wrote songs, made love, smoked more dope) in the caves above Matala, a sleepy seaside village in Crete. If you happen to be out at sea and kayak toward shore, the message on the rocks in the picture is what you’ll see today. (Sleep in the caves and/or kayak the stunning waters with the silver-haired Rick Sweitzer, founder of NW Passages, who might have more scoop on Dylan and Mitchell.)
Accept that tomorrow never comes. Embrace the flip-side – that NOW could be your last 24 hours (and review questions posted on a Technorati popular lifestyle blog which will be sure to dynamite your thinking about life and well, ….other things)
What might happen if the only thing you did this year was to queue up for your own mortality and check the YOU ARE HERE point on your circle of life? (To round out this theme, Joni’s lyrics in The Circle Game are worth a review.)
The message on the rocks prevails; the caves are still there; and you have choices every day. This posts on Friday afternoon so get ready to wave bye, bye to 01/09/09. You see, life moves fast.
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