Live a Meaningful Life

Finally...I am finally able to write this! This coming May we are moving! We are moving to the forest--Cherokee National Forest! We are going to be volunteers for the National Forest Service and be the campground hosts at Thunder Rock Campground in Tennessee! We are too excited. While I am overly elated, I have brief moments I want to vomit. The fear of the unknown, leaving everything that is comfortable, leaving decent jobs...to volunteer. Yes, for free, no pay, no insurance... Our plan: we will figure it all out once we get there. Sounds crazy doesn't it? It may be. But I now know that we will not live with the regret of at least not giving it a shot. As for longterm plans, we don't have any. We have committed from May until October. Of course, if we like living this way, we plan to keep on...going wherever the road takes us. If we decide it isn't for us, will we return to MS? We don't know. It will all depend on where we end up having normal jobs, I suppose. In

Several days ago on our FB site Meaning Builders , we asked for your input about what makes change happen. The "change" business these days is huge! Take this pill, join this place, have this procedure, try this product, follow this plan, read this book...all of these promise to improve your life and lead to lasting change. Guess what? While some of these things may offer motivation, encouragement, and good strategy, they all lack the ONE necessary ingredient that will produce lasting change...discipline. Yep, that word we all avoid. The word we skirt around. The process we ignore. The big elephant that sits in the room while we take the pills, follow new plans, have procedures, and read our books. It makes us whine, complain, create all kinds of excuses, and look desperately for another way. Discipline is the process in which we make ourselves behave! The conditioning of our mind, will and choices to line up with our real desires. Without proper discipline all of our