Friends of Dave #422: 🏃♂️➡️ get busy living 🌅
We all have a simple choice.
Quick reminder this week, Friends.
Everyday, we have decisions to make on how we spend our allotted time here on this planet.
It can be spent feeling like we are a passenger on a vessel we don’t control.
It can be spent erroneously feeling like we are the captain, in COMPLETE control.
It can be spent obsessing on getting 💩 done.
It can be spent worrying about how things “should” be.
It can be spent fearing uncertainty, or things that don’t exist.
It can be spent being our best selves.
It can be spent with people we don’t like, doing something we don’t really want or need to do.
The amount of paths we can take at any given time can be overwhelming.
But perhaps it is best to look at it in the way most eloquently stated in the classic movie, Shawshank Redemption:
Every single day, faced with everything that is going on in our lives at any given moment in time, we all can choose what we want to do.
Are you going to get busy living?
Or are you going get busy dying?
Friends, the fact is we all have a limited amount of f&cks to give, and a limited time to give them.
How do you want to do it?
It’s a simple choice.
XOXO
Dave
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