1, #112 - This is all you get.

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How often are you forced to truly prioritize?

My friend April was diagnosed with Stage-4 cancer earlier this year and has been generous enough to share how it’s affected her thinking. What struck me is a shift in focus—from what she’ll do, to how she’ll do it:

Quite simply, goals no longer make sense. A goal is an “end point,” but I’m not interested in endpoints. I’m interested in process. In priorities.

Which is why I know I’ve been scheduling like a chump for years. I used to schedule my work stuff and hope to squeeze a workout in. Or hope I could get away from my laptop long enough to get in the sun and take a walk.

Now I realize that everything has to fit around my health. If buying and prepping food, working out, and walking my dog takes most of the day, then everything else will have to shift.

I recently read this line in a book:

My near death experience took me by my shoulders and shook me out of the daze of ordinary life. It shouted “this is all you get, so why aren’t you living like it?”

I don’t believe in “living like there is no tomorrow.” It’s a silly quest. (Do you realize how intense every day would be if you really did this?), but getting cancer was like having someone come and deep clean my mind, removing the cobwebs and years of stored junk thoughts.

Ask yourself: Are you living how you want to live?

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Insight (sincerely) inspired by April MacLean. Read her whole post, here: This is all you get.