Hard as it is to believe, this year is half over. Technically, it is half over tomorrow, but that is close enough for us to discuss it! I do not know about you, but I am amazed at how time is flying by. Given this, our time on this earth is getting shorter. Not to be morbid, but to accept that whatever we want to do, we need to be well on our way to doing it.

Where should we go from here? Not literally, but figuratively. If we accept that we have less time in front of us than we do behind us, what do we need to do with this knowledge? Well, first of all, I need to clarify that not all of us have less time in front of us than behind us. I hope our dear grandchildren have more time in front of them than behind them. Their ages, which range from almost 3 years of age to twenty years of age means that if they are fortunate enough to have an average life span, they do have lots of years left. So I am not referring to them. I am not referring to anyone in particular. I am simply recognizing that life is speeding by, and we need to get busy living our priorities while we still have time. While we do not know the length of our life, the older we are, the less time we will likley have to do what is important to us.

Perhaps you are familiar with the late poet Mary Oliver’s quote, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Now that is a powerful question. Just think about that for a moment. I hope you have an answer to that question for yourself. It really doesn’t matter if others know your answer, but it matters quite a lot that you have an answer to that question for yourself.

Assuming you have an answer to the question about what you plan to do with your one wild and precious life, how are you doing with that? Are you making progress? Or are you going through your days, weeks, and months without giving any thought, or action, to what you say you really want?

With one half of 2025 left, it is time for all of us who say we want something more than what we have to get busy making that happen. I am not referring to us saying we want material things. Some may, but that is not my focus in this discussion. My focus with this question is what meaning we want our life to have. How do we want to be remembered? What do we want our legacy to be? We will all leave a legacy, just what do we want ours to be?

I recognize that some of us may know what we want from our wild and precious life, yet know we are not living it. I can identify with that. But I also know it is not too late for us to change whatever we need to change to live the life we want to live.

Until we have taken our last breath, it is not too late. What we need to accept is that we do not know when that last breath will be taken, So if this is really important to us, we need to act. Now. While there is still time.