How To Love Your Life

Sometimes I just feel exhausted.

Sometimes I just feel exhausted. There are all the things I do, all the things I want to do, all the people I’d like to meet, all the people I need to call. The daily chores, the monthly plans, the yearly resolutions, the life goals.

I see people who do so much, they do, do, do, they achieve, achieve, achieve.

My husband is in constant movement. In the time it took me to write one newsletter he shot three series and wrote two books. My business partner is unstoppable. Some of my friends have great careers, gorgeous homes, and they also have husbands, children, dogs, and cats.

I just don’t know how they do it.

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Me, I am slow. I am fairly ambitious and reasonably talented, but it’s just that it would take seven of my lives to do what some of the people I know are able to achieve in a decade. Let’s not even start with the people I don’t know who are launching rockets, leading countries or saving lives.


On my tombstone, someone will probably write, “Could have done so much more.”

I love a slow …