Life is short.

How often do you find yourself drawn to the memes on facebook and instagram that have the beautiful pictures of sunsets and beaches and that message? How often do you repost these memes and remind yourself that, yes, life is short, and, yes, I must remember this.

This is important. Life is short. There is lots of beauty that we miss in the busyness of our daily lives.

And then you walk away from the computer, or if you are like me, you click one of the other eleven tabs that you have open, and forget all about the beautiful picture with the very important message.

Until two days later, you see another one. And you think, “This one. This is the one I will remember and I will carry the message with me. And it will impact how I go about my day and how I treat the people I come in contact with.”

And then it doesn’t. Because you have moved on to the next shiny thing or that “important” message that is demanding your attention.

What happens when you get to a place where you decide it is time to stop? Where you decide that, truly, life is short, and you don’t want to waste any more time, because, really, who knows how much time they have?

And you throw it all up in the air. All of it – you buy a house at the beach, you put the house in the city where you have lived for 35 years on the market, and you give notice at the job you have loved and discover that there is an entire community who appreciates all that you do.

Change is hard and exciting and scary. But this is important, really important. Because life is short and you don’t want to waste anymore time.