# Chapter 216

It is easy to be so driven that you move from goal to objective to outcome and never live life in between. No, the goals, objectives and outcomes are not life. The goals, objectives and outcomes are goals objectives and outcomes. If they are well designed and thoughtful then they can greatly enhance your life and make it more meaningful, but they are not life. Life is relationships and enjoyment and sharing and resting and leisure, and while all of these can be a great deal of hard labor and work, they are the pleasure pieces of a life well lived.

My son is flying in tomorrow. That’s living. My youngest daughter is pregnant with her first baby. That’s living. My oldest daughter was sitting outside facing the sun yesterday as a celebration of Spring soon coming. That’s living. My beautiful wife was riding her Christmas gift bicycle to the store yesterday. That is living. I was digging around in the dirt with a cultivator hoe yesterday planting some grass in the back yard on a beautiful day. That’s living . . . and yes it was also an objective that I was working on, but the pleasure of digging in the dirt was the point. Grass is just a plus. My grandson was here yesterday having school with my wife, and he was cracking us up with his quick wit and tongue. That’s living. You get the point. And while I have made it about family, you could just as easily made it about fishing, biking, boating, restoring antiques, hunting, or karate.

Live and enjoy. Don’t just be driven.