It’s Your Life
Posted on May 3, 2012
During a recent visit with a childhood friend we spent an evening reminiscing over our high school yearbooks. It was interesting to read what fellow classmates listed as their life’s ambitions and I wondered how many actually achieved their dreams?
Are you living the life you always dreamed you would? In the song It’s Your Life, Francesca Battistelli, asks “Are you who you always said you would be?” How would you answer that question? Did you dream of climbing Mt. Everest, becoming a world class athlete or a published author? Was your goal to play the piano, or learn a new language? Or maybe your dream was to marry your childhood sweetheart and raise a family. How many of your dreams and ambitions have you fulfilled?
John Goddard, a world-famous adventurer and world-class motivational speaker is most known for his amazing “Life List” of accomplishments. (This list is very inspiring but the average person will never have a list of goals this lofty.) Check it out here: http://www.johngoddard.info/life_list.htm
If you haven’t achieved any of your dreams, why haven’t you? In another verse from “It’s Your Life” Francesca sings “always waiting on someone else to fix you”—is that you? Are you waiting for someone else to fulfill your dreams? Are you a “victim” of your childhood upbringing, or are you pursuing your dreams with passion? Maybe you grew up in a family that never encouraged you to pursue your dreams, conveying the message that the most you could achieve was to graduate from high school. Maybe they never encouraged you to go to college or take a chance.
You don’t have to be a victim: you can change the path you’re on. English novelist George Eliot said “It is never too late to be what you might have been”—one of my favorite quotes. As long as you’re alive, it’s not too late. It’s your life; who do you want to be?