We went out to dinner with friends in from out of town two nights ago.\u00a0 Before the fabulous pulled pork and brisket arrived, one of the guys told the story of how he lost the tip of his finger.\u00a0 One would expect such a tale to be somewhat gruesome in manner; however, the tone and straight-forwardness of the storyteller kept things hilarity-filled.\u00a0 He ended the story by saying this: “Once you hit 47, things just start falling off.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve thought about this statement for the last two days now.\u00a0 Having just reached four dozen years myself, I’ve found this to be a true statement.\u00a0 While I’ve not lost any digits (fingers crossed), there are other things I’ve noticed have gone by the wayside.\u00a0 Drive, purpose, happiness in all facets of my life.\u00a0 Yes, these things have started falling off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have come to the realization, however morbid it may be, that I’m more than likely over half way done with this wonderful life I’ve been given.\u00a0 Procrastination and settling are luxuries in my life that I can no longer afford.\u00a0 It’s time to get busy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I take Pure Barre classes several times a week.\u00a0 One of the first things they say after class has started is “Set your intentions for the rest of this class right now.”\u00a0 That’s what I plan to do here.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n\n\n\n Watch out world.\u00a0 Here. I. Come.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We went out to dinner with friends in from out of town two nights ago.\u00a0 Before the fabulous pulled pork and brisket arrived, one of the guys told the story of how he lost the tip of his finger.\u00a0 One would expect such a tale to be somewhat gruesome in manner; however, the tone and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-life","category-philosophy","eq-blocks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shortonshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/20180818_152729-e1536003970764.jpg?fit=3024%2C4032&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/padXGV-y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortonshoes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortonshoes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortonshoes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortonshoes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortonshoes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shortonshoes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/shortonshoes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortonshoes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortonshoes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortonshoes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortonshoes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}