I am constantly trying to encourage others, and myself, to make the time to do what you want to do.

• Help others.
• Read a book.
• Cook dinner.
• Write.
• Volunteer.
• Educate others and keep learning – with an open mind.
• Get enough sleep.
• Recharge your batteries.
• Exercise.
• Take care of your self.
• Relax.
• Enjoy a movie.
• Sit outdoors (not today, it’s freezing, actually below freezing!)
• Look around you.
• Sleep in.
• Help more clients.

Yesterday, I was driving the kids to school and with every fiber of my being, I wanted to stop. On the highway. Just for a moment, to take pictures of the morning sky. (I only saw this skyline because my husband was traveling, otherwise he is the one who does this every morning – thank goodness for early risers!)

Of course, I couldn’t stop off the highway, they would have been late…and thus making our youngest late…and in turn, I would have been late for my morning workout AND for a client meeting to boot!

I just wished, how I wished, that I could make the time to do ALL of the things that I enjoy. I love seeing “things” in a new way, a different way and I would love to have been able to be a semi-professional photographer in my life. Alas… it was not meant to be – nor was snapping a picture of that skyline, because when I was driving that same road only 2 hours later, the image was completely different and the mood was gone. I, of course, remember it; however, until the “memory-printer” is invented, no one will ever be able to see what I saw, again.

~ Dawn aka Hat Girl