Please consider these twelve questions
by Brian W. Vaszily:
Do you have more free time than ever before?
If you have an immediate family in your home, do you sit down to dinner with them almost every night to savor your food and one another's company?
Are you reading plenty of the books you'd like to read, seeing the movies and plays you want to see, attending the museums, galleries or sports events you want to attend?
Why is it that wealthy people and famous people are typically considered "successful"?
Are you reading this column at a relaxed pace? Or are you rushing through it -- perhaps just scanning it like you do with almost everything else?
Is there sufficient quiet time in your life -- where you know you won't be troubled by phones, requests, errands, or any other interruptions -- and you can just pray or meditate or think or simply be?
Do you go on plenty of vacations, even if they're just little affordable getaways?
Do you routinely take time to enjoy your mornings -- to savor a good breakfast, inhale some fresh air and sunshine, peruse the paper, chat with your spouse or neighbor?
At the end of a typical day of work do you still have plenty of time and energy to pursue the things you like to do? To routinely enjoy your hobbies? Pursue your dreams?
Do you spend enough time with the people you want to spend time with, such as kids, parents, siblings, spouse and friends?
What are the most wonderful experiences you've had in life? Is your life structured so that it's highly likely you'll have more of them?
On your deathbed, when the realization hits that your life is quite near its completion, do you think you'll be wishing you spent even more time at the office, or that you had a more expensive car, or that you answered more emails? Or will your mind and wishes go elsewhere -- and therefore shouldn't you?
Time to reflect for the New Year... er... resolution?
