Life Your Best Life Now

September is here, with “back to school” signs everywhere, signaling a new beginning and a new learning year, and a chance for self-examination to keep living your best life. What does it mean to live your best life? Life, by definition, is our day-to-day existence while we’re here on earth. It happens to all of us, like it or not. We can flow with it like a person in a canoe with no direction or destination in mind, no paddle to guide our way, letting the water of life carry us along as it will, or we can pick up our oars and begin to paddle our own canoe where we’d like it to go. We all know, too, that “paddling” and work is harder than “drifting.” A best life, an enjoyable life, has honorable work, productive purpose and positive direction, learning, joys, love, and adventure. I believe, too, a best life is a good life, a moral and ethically sound one. So seek for that this fall and this year. Work for it with all your heart. “One day you will wake up and there will be no more time to do the things you have always dreamed of. Do them now.” [Paul Coelho]. “Don’t be afraid your life will end: be afraid that it will never begin.” [Grace Hansen]

I am preaching to myself with these words … to encourage myself to keep working to live my own best life. I can see many more books in my heart I want to write, and it takes a lot of work and hard “paddling” for that research and work to happen. My husband J.L. and I have another guidebook in the planning stages to do this next year, too,… plus we already have a rather full fall schedule of book signings, events, festivals, and traveling to do to meet our readers and friends. You can check these out on my Appearances page at: www.linstepp.com/appearances/

Look for us in September, on the 12 & 13, from 10-4, at the Cherokee Fall Festival at the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore, TN and later in the month on September 26 & 27, from 10-4, on the porch at the Apple Valley General Store in Townsend, TN…. And watch for many more lovely events to come in October and November.

To read a “Free Story” go to my September Blog at: http://www.linstepp.com/blog

Enjoy your September … and see you next month … LIN