Life Via a Line

I believe that the world today is driven purely by ego.  We are in a 24/7 society that unfortunately seems to be in a constant state of comparison.  We compare ourselves to others, judge our performances or we are judged (usually harshly), we define our worth by our bank balance and look at success based on our career achievements, and  we are actually our own worst critics as we criticize ourselves for failure. I personally have underachieved by today's standards based of the fact that I left my pharmacy degree.  In my head, I had no choice, I showed signs of poor health that I could no longer hide, mentally I was top of my game - I was a year rep chosen by my peers, 100% attendance and straights A's but I was done. Since then I have worked incredibly hard and I don't punish myself because what is the point? This happened for a reason, I want to believe it is fate, it obviously was not meant to be.   I had to move forward, I was temporarily lost as my l...

Enthusiasm, I believe is often contagious.   When we are enthusiastic about something, we give off a certain energy that shines and it can be infectious.  When we see someone around us who is enthusiastic, it doesn't even matter what they are enthusiastic about; if we are in their presence it is so easy to become caught up in their energy.   Enthusiasm is authentic,  The thing we become so excited about, so enthused by is often so insignificant to others.   I love watching people around me when they are enthusiastic about something, what I find interesting is how, eventually,  you can often see that they feel self-conscious about their own enthusiasm.   In the past, within my golf, I loved getting caught up in others passion and excitement about their game or progress from starting a group of lessons and I loved nothing more than having others caught up in my enthusiasm.  I think when I decided to become lady captain back i...

Everyone has preconceptions of what it means to achieve.  They are all things that we are led to believe we should be working towards like marriage, children, faster car, bigger house purely because achieving these things will apparently make us happy and complete. At 40, I can say that I couldn’t be happier or more proud of our decisions to date. I am happy in my marriage and happy in my daily life, my health is a little unstable but It will sort itself.  We all want different things from this life, I believe there’s so much pressure to follow suit and do what has always been seen as the normal or correct way of doing things. We are all different. Waking up every day feeling excited and happy, settled even is important to me. I am living my best life, we are living our best life and being the best versions of ourselves because of our choices lately.   We do not totally conform to what others may perceive as normal.  We have chased our dreams to a certain degre...