Happy Father's Day!
The trainer's message board at the gym had this message today:
"If you wake up without a goal, go back to sleep!"Obviously it stuck in my head. I came home and Googled it to make sure I credited the right source. There doesn't seem to be any person attributed to this sage advice.
This whole Father's Day thing has me thinking. My kids all went to a memorial service yesterday for a friend's dad. A younger man, in his early 50's who got sick on Mother's Day . He didn't make it to another Father's Day.
I have a funeral to attend to later on today. Tomorrow I will light a candle for my aunt who passed away a number of years ago.
The reality of life is from the moment we are born, we are dying. Susan thinks that when I say this I am being negative.
Oh contrare!
I can't think of anything more life affirming. Yes, it is a reality that from day one we are all headed to the end.
The opportunity in that is to live each day as if there were no tomorrow. 
Live life to it's fullest.
Don't hold back!
Do not wait for tomorrow. 
There are no guarantees.
I have always heard 
people refer to "the promise of tomorrow".
How about the reality of today?
This is why I choose to load each and every day with as much as I possibly can. There is always an extra phone call to make.
There is always someone else for me to reach out to, to connect with.
I can always do one more good deed.
There is always an opportunity to make the most of today.
Do I fall short? 
Obviously!
That's what is so exciting when I open my eyes each morning and find that I have another day.
What a gift!
What a blessing!
We are not going to see Susan's dad today.
I have this funeral and I have to work, 
If all works out and I wake up tomorrow, we will head down after my bus run and celebrate Father's Day tomorrow.
So here's my thought. I will choose to celebrate every day as Father's Day and Mother's day, and my birthday, and my anniversary, and New years Day and even Yom Kippur,the day of atonement. 
Every day will be a day of remembrance as well as a day of celebration.
It is a fact, we are all dying.
I can choose to sit around and wait for that or I can  Live to Excel (Live2XL) every single time I wake up and find another day.
There is no negativity around that. 
There is nothing more life affirming than living!
Happy Father's Day!
Shavua Tov!