I Want to Remember These Years | Marie Quigley

Marie Quigley (00:00) So. Even with the book coming out in September, each stage I'm trying to really enjoy. So when we agreed on the front cover, and I love the front cover because it came to me in a dream, the image that I put on the front. So I could have sent it straight out on social media to share people as soon as I got it, but I didn't. I savored it. I looked at it. I felt it. was like, okay, this is real. This is yours. then so even the pre-ordering of it, it's available. If you look on Amazon or anywhere you want to buy a book, it's available to pre-order. But I just wanted to sit in, okay, it's ready for pre-order now. So I will release the pre-order information in a week or so. But I want to savor things now in my life. I don't want to miss them. And I think there have been times in my younger life, especially with kids, I was rushing around and there's the memories I don't have. They're not there anymore because I wasn't present. And so rather than having a goal, I want to come back to myself and try to be in full presence with everything that's happening. My book. my children, my eldest daughters leaving New Zealand, returning to this side of the world. I want to savor that. My son's finishing university. I want to savor that. My youngest daughter's in a good place in her life. My husband, who's in a race around the world. Whenever we meet, I clear the decks for my work so that I can give us full attention. I want to remember these years. And so If I, and by the way, I'm not perfect. There's things that catch me. There's interesting things that people send me that I want to go off and I have to say, okay, right now it's not right for me. Right now I'm savoring each moment as much as I can each moment and enjoying what's present with me. Even the difficult things, know, not everything's perfect in everybody's life. And I've got some challenging relationships and I'm... sitting with that challenge, not trying to fix it. My pleaser wants to make sure that everybody's safe and loved. Just sitting with the challenge and recognising that it's okay sometimes to be in disagreement with someone. That's a learning in itself. So I'm not 100 % sure if I'm being clear, but I feel like there's no rush at this stage of my life. It's okay to slow down.