To have your cake and eat it too.

We want it all! Is that possible? Most of you know me well enough to know that I don't require a lot of things, but when I want something I want the best. You may be surprised to know that CJ (though he swears he should have been born 100 years ago during the time of chuck wagons and campfires) has always wanted more out of life. To settle for "the norm", being the "average" American, has always made him crazy. Having a stressful job, working late, coming home with such a headache that he can't enjoy being with the kids isn't the way he wants to live his life. Don't get me wrong - he loves building houses, that's why he went back to it - but he just keeps thinking there's got to be a better way.
He wants to fish, I want to scrapbook. Not at night after the kids go to bed, or on the weekends when we could be spending quality time together as a family but at Noon on Wednesday- or whenever we want for that matter!
We want a medium sized FABULOUS house, to always have vehicles that are reliable and a 19 foot Skeeter with a 200hp motor, to not only be able to spend time with the kids, but to be actively involved in their activities, to be able to provide a college education for our children if that's the path they choose, to be able to retire earlier rather than later and not have to worry about the finances in our later years, to pay the bills and have money left in the bank - LOTS, not just a little, to give back to the community, to be happy doing what we love and loving what we do, to NOT have to be stressed out and work crazy hours for the next 20 years and miss out on all the little, yet oh so important things, in life in order to make this happen. Don't get me wrong we're not afraid to work, and work hard - but I believe that work should be rewarding, fullfilling to the spirit, and inspiring to the mind. Not just something you have to do every day.
Is it possible to have your cake and eat it too?
I'm sure some of you are sitting there thinking "yeah, that's what all of us dream but it'll never come true."
Straight out of the mouth of Jack Canfield "I believe each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take. To be "on purpose" means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at and accomplishing what's important to you."
Success doesn't happen over night, major changes don't happen over night, but changes they are a comin'! I challenge YOU to find your purpose in life and live the life you've always wanted. "You see, without a purpose in life, it's easy to get sidetracked on your life's journey. It's easy to wander and drift, accomplishing little."