Make the most of the dash

I read a quote today that I have read before but didn't give it too much consideration.

"Your life is made of two dates and a dash. 
  Make the most of the dash."

This made me stop and really soak in the words. Best case scenario, I get to live the second half of my life in perfect health and mind, experiencing all those activities on my bucket list. I'm already past the half century mark and realistically, I only have a third of my life left!

What have I done to make that dash between my beginning and end really stand out?
It seems as if I've been waiting for a period of my life to  wind down so I could do something super awesome, but its always put off because I am waiting on another life change to occur.
My life has definitely been subdivided. . . . College, marriage, have children, grow the children, launch the children, career and the race to retirement. Now what?

Now that there's time in my days,  I am running out of them and the stuff I really want to fill them in with is pricey - like touring Europe, cruising around famous islands, climbing Mt. Whitney, going on a shopping spree and only shopping from the non-clearance items. Flying around the world visiting friends and family instead a occasional texts or phone calls.

I'm hoping for out of reach hopes and dreams to appear. . .like owning an amazing house on a hill with a breath taking view to decorate and the invention of a body molder that sucks off the fat and tones your muscles until you look like a 27 year old poster girl for Women's Health magazine. Pipe dreams yes, but great dash fillers.

I It's time to make my mark in this wide world and figure out what God's purpose for me here is. Surely there is more. I hope so! Other wise my dash is done and I have lost my opportunity.

I am proclaiming the year of 2016 the beginning of a new dash chapter. Join me. Don't let your dash end with unresolved dreams and hopes. I'm sure going to give it my best!