"Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplify, simplify."
- Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862

I hope that everyone had a GREAT weekend!

What are weekends like for you?

I know someone who treats each and every weekend like a mini-vacation. She goes on day-trips and visits the sights and attractions. She stays in hotels or bed-and-breakfasts where someone else does all of the cooking and cleaning. The time from Friday evening to Sunday night is her own personal sanctuary. And she returns to work feeling refreshed and re-energized.

For many of us though, weekends are about "to do" lists, errands and accomplishing everything that we can't accomplish during the week. We wake up Monday mornings wondering where the weekend went.

Let me ask you this - when was the last time you just took a weekend off? I mean actually had a weekend where you weren't rushing around with a list of things to do?

Thoreau's warning is a good one - we need to be mindful of the time we have and to ensure that the details aren't robbing us of our lives. From time to time we all need to simplify.

While it is a fact of life that we each have serious responsibilities to attend to and there are things that simply must be done, this week please ensure that you are running your life and that your life isn't running you.

And ask yourself - what are you going to do differently NEXT weekend?

ENJOY NOW!

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