LIVE!

If you knew your time on earth was almost up would you be able to say that you lived a great life or when your obituary is read can others confirm that you did live a great life or would they need to embellish a little? I often thought about this when I was diagnosed with cancer. I knew there were a lot of things I wanted to do and many things I felt I needed to accomplish. So, I made it a goal that I was going to “live” once I was well. There were business ideas I wanted to implement, certainly places I wanted to travel to and grudges that I hadn't even realized I was holding on to that I had to let go. I had to freely give to others, take control of my work-life balance, spend more time with friends and family and certainly, lose weight. To let go, to breathe and to live freely. These are the things I have committed to doing because even though I have always known my time on earth has an expiration date, the diagnosis truly reminded me and set things in overdrive for me.

Recently I learned that Daisy Lewellyn, a star on Bravo’s show, Blood, Sweat and Heels died due to a rare cancer of the liver. She was just 36 years old. She was diagnosed in 2014 with cancer of the bile ducts in the liver. In an interview she did in 2015 she said, "I'm not afraid to go to heaven, but I would like to stay on Earth if I can. If it's my time to go, then I can say that I had a great life."

Let Daisy be a reminder to us to live, to have a great life. Let's stop putting things off and begin doing and living. The first thing I did was to stop putting off starting this blog. I always knew I needed to tell my story with the goal and purpose to help someone else. I started living simply by writing out a list of things I always wanted to do and a list of places I wanted to travel. I have begun checking things off already and I’m so excited. LIVE!