Appreciating Each Step of Your Journey

by Skip Cohen

It's Sunday morning, and Reflections always takes me miles away from topics like business and marketing. Today, my thoughts regarding what to write about are all over the place...but maybe that's a topic in itself - the challenge of trying to focus.

There are moments when there's so much going on around me, I can't focus. Unlike our cameras and phones, I've got no focus confirmation.  I'm wandering through my thoughts, filled with appreciation for my life and everything that got me to today. Yet feeling frustrated trying to write a blog post that makes a point.  ​

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to some place on the dance floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer

A few years back I bought a book called, Age only Matters if you're a Cheese!  It's about looking at the positive side of aging. Well, it's thanks to aging that I have this amazing collection of events, people, and places that follow Wayne Dyer's reference to "each step along the way." Being unable to focus on a blog post is an asset, not a liability. 

So many of us regularly forget all the things in our lives that make us who we are. We over-focus on the negatives, and in the process, we miss all the good things along the way. The stress of dealing with challenges becomes our predominant point of concentration.

Remember, I'm a work in progress, and I haven't always mastered looking at life as a glass half-full rather than on the way to being empty. What I have mastered is an appreciation for everyone who's helped me stay on point...it's Sheila, family and friends we're close to, and two goofy pups, Lucy and Belle. Put all of them together, and it's an award-winning support group that would impress even Dr. Phil.

Wishing everybody a terrific day ahead with time to appreciate everyone and everything that's made you who you are. And those people who make up your inner circle because they're the most trusted deserve a few of those eleven-second hugs I've written about for the last 10+ years. Take the time today, even if just for a few minutes, and appreciate all the good things in your life. Life isn't perfect, and none of us are on the same journey - but we're frequently moving too fast and not taking enough time to slow things down and appreciate life.

Here's my point: We all have a support team, but forget to follow grandma's best advice, "Count your blessings."