What would you do if today was your last day?
Would you do anything differently?
Would you live every moment as if it was your last?
The sentiment of this question and questions like this are meant to get our collective asses in gear and re-evaluate and reboot our lives. To shed the unimportant.
Be kinder.
More understanding.
More loving.
More helpful.
Reconnect with what’s important to each of us.
Concerns like this usually hit people at funerals, job changes, divorces, and other major life changes. We reflect. Go internal. Wonder what has become of our lives…our passions…our goals.
Us.
We all get caught up in the minutiae of having to eat, sleep, and clothe ourselves…most of us feeling with have to “settle” for rungs of the ladder that fall far short of our lofty goals…then we fall into depressions…cultivate shitty attitudes…and grow into miserable old men and women nobody wants to be around….
But does it have to be that way? Is there a better way?
If today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently—and why aren’t you doing it now?
While each of us are still alive, we can always change our lives. It’s never too late. But (I maintain) it all starts with our attitudes. I’ve said this before, but everything exterior begins with our interior. We don’t just blindly take action to anything without first having an internal consideration: thoughts. So, to change our exterior, with need to change how we think. Our attitudes.
If we want a better life for ourselves, it starts with thinking differently about ourselves.
Sure, we’ve made decisions throughout our lives that have taken us to “this” point in our lives…but it’s never too late to change. To say “no” or “yes” and make a life (it doesn’t have to be “major”) change. We all have to do something while we’re walking or crawling this oxygenated rock orbiting an average yellow star…but, in the interim, we can effect changes to our lives by taking the first step inside ourselves. Changing our point of view about ourselves…changing the way we think about our lives, while looking for new avenues to explore. Being open to new opportunities that “suddenly and miraculously” present themselves, once we’ve changed our attitudes.
Life…if nothing else…is about change. So, why not have that change work for us?
But don’t look to others for those answers…for the answers to changing your own life…only you can do that. Each of us are the only ones who can change our own lives…and having more money or children or shiny new anythings won’t change any of that.
Giving things away isn’t the answer. Sending philosophical confetti upon the masses won’t do that—though makes for great music videos.
Understanding who you are…taking a concerted stock in your own life…
Feeling loved.
Loving others.
If today was you last day?
Make it the beginning of an entirely new life.