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"I haven't learned how to arrive; I've just learned how to keep going."

A thought by John C Maxwell (2012-10-02) from his book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (p. 168). Center Street. Kindle Edition.

A year ago Brett, my son, Margaret, my wife and I were on the road, between Seminole, Florida and Pasadena, California with two cars and a U-Haul truck.  We left Florida on Wednesday and arrived in California on Sunday.  Now did our life stop because we finally made it to California?  No it kept on going just in a new location.

It is so easy to set out before us a goal and when we get it we start settling in and thinking that because we have arrived then we are all set to just live.  For some that is retirement.  They are so looking forward to that day that they no longer have to go work not realizing that there is still more to be done even in retirement.  Life is to be lived all the way to death and then there is more to be done even in eternity. 

Even though I have retired and I am now living in California there is still so much more to be done.  I have learned so much in this last year.  I can’t believe what has happened to me.  I haven’t arrived, I am still going. 

What about you?  Have you arrived or are you still going? 

I love my life and the opportunity I have to risk some more, to stretch some more, to live some more.  The greatest adventures in my life are out in my future.  I have not arrived.  I have only started.

What about you?  
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  1. nothing profoundOctober 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM

    What a wonderful attitude toward life! There is always another day ahead, full of wonder.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 19, 2013 at 12:50 PM

    Heck Bill, I've been coming and going for the past ten years and I know I'll arrive someday but just walking the walk and praying as I travel. Blessings.

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  3. Bill WilliamsOctober 19, 2013 at 5:07 PM

    I understand, yet I'm not really ready to arrive. There is so much to do and to see.

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