Your days turn into your weeks, turn into your months, turn into your years, turn into your life which turns into your legacy. What we don’t always realize is that our legacy doesn’t come once we are retired and the end of life is nearer than the beginning. No, our legacy started yesterday. You are living your legacy right now.

I realized that the best thing you can offer the world does not actually come from what you say, what you do, or what you produce. No, the best thing you can give the world today is YOU.

We are so eager and excited to climb towards mountaintop moments. Yet, when we get there, we forget to stop and savor the moment. We forget to take in the view. We forget to reflect and to give thanks. We often are just ready to hurry onto the next thing.

“You’re late!” my 80-year-old friend Gladimer said in his thick Russian accent. “I know, I know.” I sighed, “But at least I showed up.”

Today, I’m feeling grateful. The real type of gratitude. May you give yourself space, to get to the same place. To truly realize, the gift that is your life.

You’d be surprised how different things could be if for once, you just bet on your hopes + dreams.