An interactive reflection

Before I Get Down to Business

For the life you imagined, the life that happened, and the life that may still be waiting.

There is no score and no five-year plan. Your first honest answer will do.

Complete the unfinished story.

Don’t reach for the most impressive answer. Write the truest one.

The clipping that started it
A weathered black-and-white magazine clipping with fill-in-the-blank sentences about childhood dreams and retirement.

Years ago, Patricia Lane tore this page from a magazine and saved it. The publication and writer have been lost to time, but the question remained:

How long are we willing to postpone our own lives?

Original source unknown. Shown here from Patricia’s personal archive as the inspiration for this reflection.