How did you make today count?

As you are reading this, the hands of the clock are ticking away. Regardless of what you are doing with your time, it is still time that is passing by you. Time that you will never get back. Often people have to trade their time for money at a J.O.B. Trading your 40 hours a week and sometimes even more then that, helping someone else build their dreams. 40 hours away from your family, 40 hours taken from your life, 40 hours that could be spent working on your own desires and dreams...yet here we are, day in and day out, on the hamster wheel of life working at our J.O.B. (Just Over Broke)!

I worked a J.O.B. too, in my early 20s. I had a boss who was a nightmare. She treated me like a slave. Told me when I could go to the bathroom, have lunch, go home and even who I was permitted to be friends with in the office. Yes, I was a young accommodating women back then, far from who I am today, but it made me realize that I don't ever want to be treated like that again. I also knew that the best boss I could ever have that would be ok with the lifestyle that I really wanted was ME! And so my entrepreneurship journey began. 

I have spent the last 20 years of my life, going to the bathroom when I need to, having lunch when I feel hungry,  meeting friends for coffee or getting an afternoon massage with my husband, when ever I feel like it. I have had vacation days, sick days, school trip days. I have been present for every day of my children's lives and I have never had to get a sick note from my doctor to do it. I have managed every second of every day myself over the last 20 years and for this is what I am truly grateful for. You will never get this time back. How are you spending these seconds, minutes, hours, days? Do you feel something inside of you telling you that you are not living the life you deserve?  Listen to that little voice! Because at the end of our lives when we look back, we don't see our bank account. We see the events we have missed, the people we didn't spend time with, the goals we didn't achieve, the opportunities we didn't take and the potential we never reached!  Don't waste one more second of this life, wishing and praying for another one. You have the same amount of time in a day we all do. What are you doing with yours?

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