If imitation is suicide, I’m overcoming this tendency with the Adult Enrichment Project. I’m opening opportunity for leaders and adults who want to learn in their own time in their own way. I’m showing them to embrace the new and share it with the kids they work with.

Are you up for the challenge?

No matter who you are, where you live or what you do, you are an influence on others.

In every action you take and everything you say, you choose whether to be authentic. Those around you choose to be like you or the opposite of what you are.

Be a positive rolemodel. Be true. Be authenic. Take the opportunity to learn and be the best person you can be.

If you can reach your own full potential . . . or help someone else reach theirs . . . you will have done something worthwhile with your life.

What would I tell myself five years ago?

Get to a therapist. You have to deal with the loss and take care of your kids. Take charge!

What would I tell myself in five years?

Why didn’t you take charge of your life sooner? You knew what you wanted. Why did you let yourself be held back for so long?

I’m passionate about helping people, sharing my ideas and knowledge through unusual means. I plan on continuing doing this well past “retirement” age.

Eventually, the Adult Enrichment Project (AEP) will become a vast group of knowledge accessible to anyone willing to better themselves. Learning things that bring fun into your life. Sharing the knowledge with others. Realizing that learning doesn’t have to be difficult, on someone else’s schedule or covering things you already know.

There are so many paths this can take that just thinking about this makes me excited to continue.

The one place I would love to visit is England. I won’t go until my kids are adults so I have someone to go with me. One day . . .

The biggest challenge I have is time. Being a single mother, working full-time and volunteering are just a few things that take my time. So, my solution is outsourcing.

I’m going to work to find others to help me with things I’m not good at or take away from my major responsibilities.

What can you outsource?

. . . A minefield of expectations and monotony with a field of dreams just beyond my fingertips.

You have 15 minutes to live, tell your story.

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Fifteen minutes.

Not long, but a lifetime lost.

Possibilities squandered. The road not taken. So many ways to express loss.

The loss of life is obvious. The loss of hopes and unrealized dreams are costs never considered.

I am leaving behind notes. Story ideas and outlines. Poetry hoarded away from discriminating eyes. Sketches. Lists of programs and supplements.

I spent so long believing the lie that I hadn’t lived long enough to experience the world. I put off my dreams too long. Now they will pass with the dust on the wind.

How many great works were never realized because of those lies?

Don’t believe them.

Stretch your wings. Take flight. Let possibility be your power. Let your soul sing. Leave a legacy not to what might have been, but to what is!