I'm going to do that one day!! If I had the money, I'd TOTALLY buy that!! We should have lunch soon!! I'll see you the next time I'm around!! How many times have we been guilty of saying that? I know that I'm guilty of that at least once a week. Great intentions + no actions = STATUS QUO. It's like a safety meeting - nobody moves- nobody gets hurt!!I remind myself everyday what it is that I want to accomplish with my life and I'm NOW finally starting to take action and, even though they're baby steps, I'm stepping off of the procrastination bus!!I'm not sure if you're familiar with a great gal Kriss Carr,she's a fellow cancer survivor who has an incurable cancer and made a documentary and wrote a book called Crazy Sexy Cancer. She has a great quote on the homepage of her website and it says - Why, when we are challenged to survive, do we give ourselves permission to truly live? Isn't that so true? How many times have you talked to a survivor of an illness,serious accident,crazy addiction etc., have you heard them say - "dude, you gotta take the time to stop and smell the roses" or "slow down and enjoy the view". I'm 100% guilty of that as well. When I was going through my treatments for leukemia and was SO BLESSED to be at the golf course and actually GOLFING- I shot like 60 in nine holes and I said "I don't care, it's a beautiful day, the sun is shining and look how beautiful this course is with it's nature filled back drop. B.S. - I shot 60 - are you kidding me!! Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful to be alive and to be able to continue on with my great passion for the game of golf, my point is WHY do we have to have something terrible like cancer to make us re-adjust our sails? Life is too short and it was a serious wake up call for me back in August 2003 when I was kicked in the nuts and told " YOU HAVE CANCER" - I was only 34 years old for pete sake!! We get so wrapped up in all of lifes other B.S. that we forget to keep living and do the things we're passionate about. You receive daily reminders about why we should start chasing after our aspirations and yet we keep jumping back on that big fat procrastination bus with the destination heading to NOWHERES LAND!!! My biggest wake up call came in the form of a cancer diagnosis and STILL needed other reminders to get me the hell off of that bus. The final kick in the ass came today, and this wasn't just a kick, it was a full pledge flying kung fu Mo Fo kick square in the middle of my ass and I'm totally off of that bus full of like hasbians!! A very good friend of mine and my older brother's BEST FRIEND, passed away today at the age of 47, 47, are you fricking kidding me!! Leaving behind his wife and son & daughter in law.His name is Marcel Cancade and we affectionately called him Cito. He died from complications during heart surgery and has left a huge hole in all of our hearts - GOD BLESS YOU CITO!!! WHY,WHY and WHY do we have to have something so incredibly shitty like this to happen to keep giving us remimders - screw reminders, wake up calls, as to why we need to stop thinking about it, and like Nike says - JUST DO IT!! I have, for the first time, graciously accepted the position of CEO of this great company called MYSELF and I won't stop until I have reached the upper echelons of my life and the sky is the limit as per how far that will take me!!
We all have passions and desires that are ALWAYS burning inside of us, don't wait for the perfect moment or the proper time, because we don't truly know how much time we have!! Live your life to the fullest today, and go to bed rested so you have energy to do the same thing again tomorrow!!
Until tomorrow,
Darren
