{"id":101,"date":"2007-10-03T07:05:44","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T14:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:19:42","slug":"living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2007\/10\/living\/","title":{"rendered":"Living"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a year ago – after getting settled in this house, I made time for a physical.\u00a0 I’d lived in this area for nearly 13 years at the time and have seen the same G.P. – and even though all doctors are busy, I have been fortunate enough to see a man who makes time to listen to me and also share what’s going on with his family.\u00a0 So after relating my 7 month motorhome adventure – his comment was “You are one of the few people who has actually done something they really wanted to do”.\u00a0 <\/em>Thankfully, \u00a0I know another who has, but the point of today’s post is that I often get that kind of reaction to the travelling, my work, my life in general.\u00a0 And it is often said with some wistfulness or with the tag line “I wish I could do something like that”.<\/p>\n

I’d like to say “Hey, wake up and smell the coffee – because you can!”.\u00a0 I’d like to say “live your life with some passion, spend some time and figure out what you’d really like to do and go and do it!”\u00a0 I have no special powers, no pot of money – I do have a good imagination, though!\u00a0 And the truth is, it is the visualization of the “dream”\u00a0that gets me there and I believe it is the way that those who accomplish goals and realize dreams “make” things happen.\u00a0 We see in our mind’s eye how we want our life to be.\u00a0 Visualizing what we want keeps focus, helps weed out the stuff that is not part of the picture and crazy as it might sound – “moves the molecules” so that the vision becomes reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We each have some number of years in this earthly experience.\u00a0 If you have any faith or spirituality or even a\u00a0general belief that this is not all there is – do ya really think we were made to play it safe???<\/p>\n

It is not an original line(s) and I can’t say it’s totally true but really, can you imagine on your deathbed saying…<\/p>\n

“I wish I’d worked more”<\/p>\n

“I wish I’d spent less money”<\/p>\n

“I wish I’d travelled less”<\/p>\n

“I wish I hadn’t loved…”<\/p>\n

I bet not<\/strong>\u00a0!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a year ago – after getting settled in this house, I made time for a physical.\u00a0 I’d lived in this area for nearly 13 years at the time and have seen the same G.P. – and even though all doctors are busy, I have been fortunate enough to see a man who makes time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22494,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/22494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}