Menial or Meaningful?

“Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!” ~Oq Mandino

This speaks to me…does it speak to you at all?

It makes me wonder and ask myself if I am allowing enough time each day for growth and renewal.  Am I making sure that the menial does not choke out the meaningful? Am I making sure that my personal routine and the overall routine of my family is one that promotes accomplishments, yet not at the expense of creativity?

This is a fine line. Allow for growth with enough time and space…yet do not thwart growth by allowing boredom either. In short…provide adequate opportunities for growing and wondering and learning and changing.

If you watch children  naturally go through a day, you will typically see them approach it with gusto. Children do not have a goal of simply “to survive” a day. I think the more we can model ourselves after a child’s approach to a new day, the better off we will be.

“Now. Now! Not tomorrow!”