Good Morning,
The title of today’s message is not meant to be gloomy, but to actually open your hearts and minds to the magic that is often right there in our lives now. I had the opportunity to read a book called ‘An Hour to Live, and Hour to Love” by Richard Carlson and Kristine Carlson (http://www.amazon.com/Hour-Live-Love-Story-Given/dp/1401322573). Richard Carlson, author of the ‘Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff’ series of books passed away in December of 2006 of an aneurism at the age of 45. His wife Kristine honored Richard with this book which includes a poem Richard wrote to her on their 18th Anniversary, three years before he passed. That poem talked about what he would do if he had one hour left to live and how he would spend it. You know he would be spending that time with his soul mate and love, his wife.
What grabbed me about this book was what Richard said he would not spend time on during his last hour. In that perspective, your last hour, many things in life cease to have their meaning. Let me share some examples:
If you had one hour left to live:
- Would you really care if people who owed you favors paid them back?
- Would you really care if people who owed you money paid it back?
- Would you call your financial planner or broker to find out how your investments are doing?
- Would you put in another hour of overtime at work?
- Would you really care that there was a sale at Macy’s or Kohls, etc?
- Would you worry about what others thought about you?
- Would you worry about not having the latest fashion or cool gadget?
When you start considering what you would do with your last hour, you often find a lot of what you thought to be truly important ends up being really not that important. Not that you forget about these things forever, but their true priority in your life become clear.
The other point that comes up, which was also seen in ‘The Ultimate Gift’ and Ultimate Life’ is that when you find out what you would do with your final hour you often find that it is something you can do right now. So, if it is, why not do it now?
This is great little book which helps you put what is important in your life into perspective and find out how your last your will be spent.
Enjoy!
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