Tweaking the Plan...Go!

"It is in the quiet moments, with no other company but Bella Luna, that we truly learn to listen to our own voice." ~author, Yours Truly

The days are getting hotter; summer is close. We've somehow slipped into mid-May and I feel as if I've barely caught my breath from putting away all the Christmas decorations that now fill my attic. On New Year's Day I declared this year, "Go in the Direction of Your Dreams" and as summer peeks around the corner I'm asking myself if that's what I've been doing. What were my dreams for this year? I get this panicked sense of urgency as I mentally click on them, categorize them, and evaluate just what the heck I've been doing since 1 January! How many of those dreams have I actually realized or am actively working on? I take a breath to calm my racing heart. Then another.

"Okay," I tell myself, taking another deep breath, "we can check off this, this, and this." I become steady as I meticulously align my goals with my path. It's not so bad. Some things have had to be readjusted, while other unexpected things landed in my lap (...and isn't that exactly the way life works?). Some of those dreams I began the year with have had to be discarded as new information came up, but I'm used to that. I'm not afraid to leave things behind that no longer serve my vision and forward progress, even when doing so is painful (and often it is). 2015 hasn't been anything like I expected, but that's okay, too. I have learned how to appreciate the cliche' but utter truth in the phrase, "Life happens while you're making plans." I have a plan and mostly I've stuck to it, but I always keep handy one big-ass eraser!