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A New Era February 25, 2007 There is no time like the present. Information is available at our fingertips right in our own home, giving us the potential to learn anything whenever we so choose. People are accomplishing great things all around us without any idea prior to their success how or under what means they will be able to achieve what they set out to do. This is the time to really live. To live is to take your life and use it to do great things, or things that are great in your eyes. Sometimes these dreams are smaller and other times they reach into the sky to reach that single star previously left unvisited. It is your choice what your life will amount to. Will you give yourself a destiny? Take the initiative because if you don't, then no one else will. Today many of us are way past the survival stage, yet most of us are only just getting by. Day by day we go through the same routine accomplishing the same results. Though there is no problem with this safe approach to life, is it really in any way rewarding? Wouldn't it be much better to set out to do something great and fail, then to live a boring and safe life? The purpose of life is to live, not to simply dwell on this Earth. Everything we participate in has importance and urgency. Some things must be attended to, such as poor health, while others are simply not always as urgent, such as exercising. Other things have importance in our lives such as our family. The goal here is to find what is important in your life, what you would like to accomplish or do, and make it a priority whether its completion is urgent or not. You must find what is important but not always urgent, and set out to do it. Because so many of our day to day activities seem so pressing, what is actually important to us is many times overlooked. It is essential that you find where your priorities are. How important will these things be tomorrow, next week, or a year from now? Give time to the things you find most important. However, lets face it. Many of us don't currently have our dream job, and our current job may not seem important to us. Though you should work to find something that has more meaning to you, this is not always an option. Because of this you must focus on not simply what you do, but how you do it. Even if you cannot do the things you would love to do, you can still do your current duties in a way that is great. Then, when you do your duty well, more opportunities will come to you. The right door will open and you will be ready to pursue and achieve your dream. This purpose is given to us so it can be shared with others. The purpose of a dream is for it to be shared. The only way to share a purpose is to live it, and to live it you must believe in it, so you can one day pursue it. Life is to be shared, with everyone we come in contact with. Share it and more will be given to you so you can share it again, in a never-ending cycle. What do you think about most? Think about what you want and it will find a way to become true in your life. To do you must be and to be you must believe you are. Once you believe you can do something great and take the initiative to properly prepare yourself, you will be able to do it. As humans we have a choice, a small space between stimulus and response. We can choose the response despite the cause, the way something will affect us. Guard the things you believe because for you, those things will continue to be true. To get the most out of life you must take the time to slow down. When you slow down, you find what you want to achieve and you set out to do it. One that is slow to act decides how he or she will react to the circumstances that come his or her way. Take the time to give this slowed down pace priority in your life because when you take the time to slow yourself down you are preparing yourself to take a quantum leap ahead. Have you ever wondered why dogs and cats seem so happy despite what may have happened yesterday? Maybe they completely destroyed your couch just a day ago and you gave them a scolding. But the amazing thing is, they seem to have completely forgotten it. They are as happy as can be. This is because animals don't take the time to dwell on what they have done wrong because they don't know any better. This is the point where human intelligence is often nipped in the nose, because we worry and dwell on such insignificant mistakes that it causes us to beat ourselves up, when even animals can get over it in a small amount of time. It seems man's best friend can help us better ourselves even if it seems he or she is always in it for him or herself. If I succeed, many people believe they will fail. In our society a win always means a loss, or so we think. Isn't there enough success to go around for everyone? Yes, the truth is, there is more than enough good to go around. That good is simply waiting to be rediscovered because, in the words of T. S. Eliot, "we shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know that place for the first time." Throughout life you are meant to love the people you know, the work you do, and the person you are and will one day become. Then, when you love all things you will discover that you love to live, and you will be glad you took the time to find what you believed to be important and gave it priority in your life. You will be glad you slowed down to choose to enact instead of react and you will wonder why this realization didn't come to you sooner. But then, as you look to man's best friend you will forget all the trouble you went through and be glad you are living in the present because there will never be another time like today, so seize it. Joshua Schwarz