How to Be Sure You’re Making the Most of Your One, Precious Life
“Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do. With your one wild and precious life? — Mary Oliver
I bet when Pulitzer prize winning poet Mary Oliver wrote those words she didn’t know they’d become etched into self-help folklore.
Now they’re everywhere — quoted in books, dressed up in memes on social media, splashed about on LinkedIn.
It’s arguably the goal of most of us — to live well, to make the most of the time we’re allotted.
Trouble is, in 2022 it’s a bit of a stretch goal. There’s a lot — sigh — going on everywhere. For many, getting through the days has to come ahead of making the most of them.
So we need to keep it real.
When life’s a little blurry…
Few people leap from bed with their internal fires alight. Most of us have to stifle a slight sense of overwhelm when the alarm shrills. Most of us take time to warm up to the day.
That’s okay; we all have different biorhythms, circumstances and stressors. The only thing that matters is that we do wake up — fully — that our days don’t run together as a blur in…
