This summer, my coworker Anne has had the most amazing experience.  Anne and her family (husband, three kids) typically reside in a suburb of Boston, and live the typical suburban lifestyle.  Like many of us who live in a ring outside a major metropolitan area, they have sampled some of what Boston has to offer, but most of their time is spent running kids from activity to activity, getting to work every day, dealing with the ongoing management of homework and school papers.  But this summer, totally different story.

Anne and her husband made the decision to move their family into the core of the city this summer, and to fully engage in the downtown Boston experience.  When I saw Anne yesterday, she was still beaming coming off a week’s vacation spent exploring the city.  Her kids have taken sailing lessons.  They’ve visited every single, possible museum in the city.  They’ve hit all the historical sites.  They have painted the town in full form.  Yesterday, Anne said to me, “this has been a summer my kids will never forget.”

What strikes me most about what Anne and her husband did is that they made a very intentional choice.  They weighed the costs and benefits.  They factored in the potential reaction their kids would have.  They considered being away from their home base and how they as adults would react.  But in the end, they acted.  They made an intentional choice to give their kids a summer they will never forget.

It made me think – what intentional choices can we each make today to live healthier lives?  Intentional choice – it’s something to think about.

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