Christmas Day 2011

In the past I have found Christmas Day to be quite a letdown. After the morning rush of gifts and breakfast, the remainder of the day looms as blank as a piece of copy paper. But now I have plenty to do. Originally I had planned to volunteer somewhere at a soup kitchen or children's home but could not find anything so I am filling up my day by writing and working on my blog. Added a Christmas dinner to our itineray as the Chef where I work was nice enough to give us a piece of meat big enough for all of us to enjoy. If I really wanted to get productive, I would start on my New Year's resolutions but that will wait. 

My main project for the remainder of the year is to finish something, anything. Procratination bites all of us in the butt but I am particularly susceptible. Make it a point to close out something that you have fought againsts completing all year. It will feel really good to get it off your plate by midnight on December 31st. I have so much to choose from but I must make my final choice today. Will it be that memoir I am working on for a client? That chick flick that has been almost finished for four years? Or that Christmas script I just started?  Just writing it down in this blog is motiviating me to get started because I know that others are watching to see if I have the stamina. We'll see.   

Living a Double Life

As people grow older (and we all do), most resign themselves to working toward retirement and then traveling, spending time with the grandkids and maybe growing a rose garden. Empty years may stretch ahead with meaningless but interesting activities to pass the time until you expire.  But there are an adventurous few that view the second half of their lives as the opportunity to start fresh and live a completely transformed and totally different existence full of promise, excitement and learning. That is what this blog is all about - living your life twice. With advances in medicine and medicine, many live much longer and healthier lives, giving them the opportunities to stretch and grow into a second phase.