Mile-Pebbles

We call some of the outstanding events of our life "milestones." We were too young to comprehend the significance of some of the early ones, but our families celebrated for us when we took our first steps, when we started school, when we lost our first tooth. Later, in no special order, there were our first jobs, our driver's license, our first car, the first date, graduation from high school and perhaps from college. Marriage for some of us. Our first home. Parenthood maybe. A marked career achievement. A hard-won honor. Retirement. Life has a number of places where we stop and say, "Wow! Look at where I (or we) have been and what we've done!"

But life isn't only about extraordinary occasions. It's mostly about the "nitty-gritty" of day-to-day issues and tough decisions. Yesterday an advertisement in a magazine caught my attention. A financial company wants to help me reach all my milestones—and my mile-pebbles.

No matter where you are on your life-journey, there are still important goals at which to aim. Perhaps you have already arrived at many of the milestones you expected to reach in your lifetime, but don't stop there! Not every goal has to be so lofty that it takes a lifetime to achieve. There are many less-imposing but worthwhile things to do and to be. They don't all have to be momentous milestones.

Celebrate the mile-pebbles too!

MaryMartha

The ad is by Ameriprise Financial in the current issue of Time.
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