Enjoy Life NOW - A Quick Story
What are you working so hard for?
I want you to ask yourself one question as you head into summer and race around to meet deadlines, plan vacations, juggle new schedules, and push yourself to get it all done.
What is it that you actually want right now?
Then evaluate if your actions are getting you closer to that, or are not allowing you to enjoy what you want most. Read this short parable about the fisherman and the businessman to help clarify my point:
The Fisherman and the Businessman
The Vibe: Learn how to enjoy your life NOW.
The Details: This is copied and pasted from online, this is not my original writing:
There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small village.
As he sat, he saw a fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish.
The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”
The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”
“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.
“This is enough to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.
The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?”
The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.”
The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman.
“I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to the city, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches.”
The fisherman continues, “And after that?”
The businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.”
The fisherman asks, “And after that?”
The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”
The fisherman was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I am doing now?”
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To Thrive: Get clear on the answer to this question - What do you REALLY want right now?
Is it to relax with your family? Visit new places? Take some time for you? Exercise? Make a meal? Enjoy a movie? Improve your health?
Are the activities you are filling your day with getting you closer or further from that goal? Sometimes we work so hard to take on activities because we think it will get us what we want eventually. But if we cut out some of those tasks, we could actually enjoy what we have RIGHT NOW.
Thrive this summer by making time for what you actually want now, instead of always working for time to do it "someday".
Cheers to enjoying life NOW,
Sharon
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