Have you ever had to re-evaluate your life?

Re-evaluate your life – it’s one of those things that needs to take place far more often than it does.

For far too many of us, and yes, I’m one of them!  It takes a major loss for us to sit back and look at our lives.

We seem to be on auto-pilot these days.

It’s all about earning more and more money, which means longer hours, less time with family ….. for what?

When you lose someone close to you, or you have a health scare it really makes you re-evaluate your life.

I know my Gorgeous Guy and I did this when he lost his friend.

It’s a real wake-up call when someone your age dies.

My Gorgeous Guy has always wanted a big boat and I said to him, just do it.

As long as he can afford the repayments, who cares?!

Life is for living, not existing and that’s what far too many of us end up doing.

Just existing.

And then all of a sudden you’re diagnosed with an illness or someone close to you dies.

Then you’re not thinking of retirement and what you’ll do then but what you’re doing right night

It makes you re-evaluate your life doesn’t it?

I want to briefly mention the most inspirational person I have ever met.

Her name is Vicki Ryan.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy but secondary cancer  came back into her bones, lungs etc.

Now, I’m sure that she shed more than her share of tears at the thought of leaving her beautiful children behind.

When you meet her, though she was full of laughter and you always left her company feeling better about yourself.

When Vicki was diagnosed she obviously went through the immediate “Why Me?” emotions.

Instead of dwelling on it she realised that this was an opportunity for her to discover her spiritual side.

And when she re-evaluated her life she decided to develop it further and as she said to m…  This is obviously the journey that she chose for herself in this lifetime and she has discovered so much about herself, including her inner strength, that she doesn’t believe she would have found without this personal fight.

There’s a poem that I have and I will share the first paragraph with you…..

Live your life to the fullest
Get the most from each day and each age of your life,
Then you can look forward with confidence
And back without regrets.

Sit down and re-evaluate your life.  Decide what is actually important, make it about living not existing.

Please, don’t put off anything until “tomorrow” because tomorrow just may not come.

Tell all your loved ones that you DO love them, don’t think that they already know.

Take that holiday that you’ve been meaning to for years but just “haven’t found the time” because that’s one thing we can’t control and that’s time.