Life's Too Short...

Life's Too Short...

...To make excuses.

...To save the good dishes for special occasions.

...To think a compliment and not say it.

..To sing half-heartedly.

...To let fear hold you back.

...To hoard and keep too much stuff.

...To simply trudge through the days.

...To forget the touch and small of Play-doh.

...To eat the same meals day after day.

...To not pray often, giving thanks in all things.

...To not be able to read and write well.

...To have a weak handshake.

...To not look someone in the eye when you are talking to them.

...To stop learning new things.

...To not learn from others mistakes.

...To not learn from our own mistakes.

...To not know that Jesus died for you.

...To not acknowledge that there is a God.

...To forget prayer is a two-way conversation.

...To only read about the Grand Canyon and never see it yourself.

....To ever always be comfortable.

...To not go off the path in the woods and get wonderfully lost.

...To not stand on top of a mountain and enjoy the view.

...To measure success by possessions and life by years.

...To let technology replace personal human interaction.

...To not meet someone new every day.

...To feel uncomfortable with silence.

...To regret life not meeting your expectations.

...To insist God do it your way.

...To avoid life.

...To fail to admire how things are made (the those who made them).

...To major in the minors.

...Give up too soon.

...To lie.

...To cheat.

...To spend time in jail.

...To brag about doing a bad thing.

...Complain you are bored.

...To not accept yourself as you are today.

...To be prideful, arrogant or unkind.

...To be impatient and rude.

...To cuss at inanimate objects.

...To part company without a loving embrace.

...To spend time rehearsing your anger.

...To blame others.

...To watch football all weekend.

...To miss saying "I love you" every day.

...To treat each day as a drudgery.

...To misplace things.

...To not sit around a fire with friends.

....To lend.  Give it away instead, you can never be too generous.

...To try to change what you can't.

...To get roped into unnecessary drama.  Repeat after me: "Not my circus, not my monkeys".

...To complain about people who aren't going to change.

...To give it away to addictions.

...To open yourself up to spiritual evil.

...To blame your parents for your problems.

...To not look your best every day (If only for yourself).

...To not do your best every day (your best, not someone else's best).

...To spend it with people you don't like.

...To live only for the weekends.

...To miss the sweetness of simple things.

...To not smell great smells.

...To apologize for things you can't control.

...To wear clothes that don't fit.

...To not try new foods.

...To put others down when you could be lifting them up.

...To talk before you listen.

...To hold people to standards you cannot meet yourself.

...To break promises.

...To hold a grudge and not forgive others (and yourself).

...To not go on adventures.  Travel is life.

...To be embarrassed to sing or dance.

...To hate Mondays.

...To not give an honest day's work on Friday.

...To take short-cuts and procrastinate.  If you are going to do it, do it your best!

...To gossip.

...To talk about shallow things.

...To always have to explain yourself.

...To try to reason with an unreasonable person.

...To be surrounded with critical, negative people.

...To speak in cliche's, never expanding your vocabulary.

...To eat alone.

...To not know your neighbors.

...To focus on your failures.

...To always take the same route.

...To not share the original person you are.