“It was a day of early beginnings and late finishes. It was a day to celebrate and experience like no other. Not because it was all that different. No, it was as it always is, just a day. But it was a day to celebrate because it was my day. It was another 24 hours in my life, and in my life, every moment is worth celebrating.”

I wrote that paragraph in my journal last night as I headed off to bed. I was tired. Content. Satisfied. I’d accomplished lots. Done lots. Experienced lots. And I was happy.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I generally end my days happy. Heck. I start my days happy! I just generally have a high happy set-point. I like my days better that way. I don’t do well living in mediocrity.

And the day had been awesome. From an early morning breakfast my amazing team and I had organized to kick-off National Depression Screening Day where three speakers shared their vision and insight into depression and its impact on their lives and what they saw as the possibilities for change to the Mayor’s presence and willingness to take the test live, the morning started out with a bang. And it kept going. A late afternoon reception for the remarkable Tim Richter who has left the Calgary Homeless Foundation to lead the charge of the nationwide alliance to end homelessness to dinner with my youngest daughter, the day was filled with remarkable and memorable moments.

And yet, it was a day just like the others. And, it was a day like no other.

Just as today will be a day like no other. Because today is the most important day of my life. Today is the day I get to live on purpose. On track. With passion. In pursuit of my dreams, my vision, my goals, my aspiration.

Today is the only day I get to do it my way, right now. Sure, there’ll be tomorrow too but right now, this is where I’m at and it’s up to me to fill this moment with what matters most to me. It’s my responsibility to live my day on the other side of my comfort zone, out there in the heady airs of my lightness of being filled with laughter, freedom and passion.

It’s my day.

What about you? Are you willing to make today like no other? Are you willing to live it up in the rapture of now knowing this is your one and only precious life. Your time. Your moment. Your possibility to be all that you are, right now, right here.

What could happen today if you chose to be, right now, right here, the lightness of your being filled with all that matters to you, filled with all that you want to create more of in your life?

What kind of difference would you make today if you chose to take each step filled with the passion of being your most amazing self exactly the way you are, in this moment right now, right where you’re at?

These are the questions I like to ask myself every morning. And every morning the answer is always the same — If not now when? If not me who?

It doesn’t matter if life has served me a bowl full of cherries or nothing but peanuts. What matters is what will I make with each moment I’ve been given.

Will I let this moment go to waste wishing and hoping things could be different. Or, will I leap into the moment filled with the desire and knowing I have the capacity to create change, to make a difference right now in my life so that in my being all that I am meant to be I create a world of possibility all around me.

The choice is mine. How I step into my day makes a difference. Let me step with lightness and joy being me every step of the day.