Choose a Better Life

If you are like me, you find it easy to get caught up in the daily “To Do” list.  There always seems to be more tasks to accomplish than there is day to accomplish them.  Life is busy and demanding.

But all too often we allow our busy and demanding lives to over take the quality of our lives.  We trade the fun for the urgent, the excitement for the mundane.  And we justify this trade-off by telling ourselves that “there is just too much to do. I’ll take a day off when I get to the bottom of my To Do list.”

The problem is that we never get to the bottom of the list.  No sooner do we cross one item off then we add two more.  We will always have an abundance of tasks to complete, errands to run, and work to do.  It’s when we get bogged down by these things that our quality of life and relationships suffer.

In order to keep that from happening you have to make room in your life for the unexpected, the unusual.  And, you have to seize the opportunity to act on those opportunities.

For example, tomorrow would be a typical day in my household … work for myself and my husband and school for our daughter.  However, we learned that one of my daughter’s favorite movie stars is in a nearby town filming a movie.  We researched and found a tentative schedule for his location shoots.

So, my daughter and I are going to “buck the system” and head over to where we think he may be.  I have no idea if we will actually get to see him or not or if we’ll even be able to park anywhere close to the set, but we are going to give it a try.

I’ve decided that the world will not come to an end if I don’t get through my stack of paperwork or if I don’t make more progress on my book tomorrow.  My “To Do” list will still be waiting for me on Friday and my business will still be in tact.

Regardless of whether or not we actually get to see this actor (or as my husband says of my daughter, “She just wants to breathe his air.”) my daughter and I will have a fun day together hunting him down and enjoying the nearby town.  I’m sure our time will be filled with giggles and laughs as we try not to appear too much like a stalker or a crazed fan.

Choose a Better Life by making room in your life for the unexpected and the unusual.  You never know where those opportunities will lead, but one thing is for sure, you will have fun in the process.