Keeping the Dream

A while ago, I received a friendly email from someone who invited me to create and submit a list of dreams and goals I’d like to accomplish by age 100, as part of launching a new website geared toward the empowerment and celebration of older people.

I know the importance of setting goals and holding a vision, but life has a way of making one so busy while you’re trying to take care of daily living, that you forget how to take care of your dreams.

But this invitation – and challenge, helped to motivate me to create a space to do just that. So when I finally got a breather, I took a couple days and put together my list…and had a lot of fun doing it. It was eye opening for me, and more emotionally moving than I would have anticipated. It helped me to see what my priorities were and what I truly valued in life.

Well, yesterday I finally submitted my list.The contest is over in a couple of days, but I invite create your own list, anyway. If you choose to submit it, you can go to www.eons.com and use my code number to log in: 72265

You will then receive your own code.

Now, I have to say I don’t care so much about trying to live to 100, as trying to live as fully and genuinely as I can. I can’t pretend I have less to offer than my younger peers, when I know I actually have more to offer than ever before.

I think because of my childhood, there are days when I feel like I was born old, that my heart is just tired of the pain and suffering this dear world goes through, but it’s also true that my heart is very big, filled with dreams it loves as much as anyone can love their children, and like a mother, it wants to see each one of them given the opportunity to live and take wing.

So I will choose to be a faithful steward of my heart, and do whatever I can to honor the dreams it holds, knowing that when you come right down to it, I cannot separate myself from who I am now from who I envision myself to be in the future. They are intertwined.

Have fun creating your list of dreams. Whether or not you choose to submit them, just the act of creating this list of dreams will be a blessing. Some of them may have been waiting just for this moment to be discovered by you.

If you do choose to participate, again, here’s my code number for you to use when you first log in – 72265, at www.eons.com. Once you’re logged in, you’ll receive your own code.

Contest ends July 10, 2006.

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