If today was the last day of your life

What if we woke up tomorrow with only what we were grateful for today? What would we have left? Let’s put things in to the perspective. It’s so easy to get worked up on a daily basis. If you want to find a reason to get annoyed, you will. If you want to find a reason to complain about someone, you will. If you want to see someone get on your nerves, you will. There are countless opportunities throughout the day to get frustrated disappointed or annoyed at the people, places and situations around you. The challenge is, we don’t see our lives as they are, we see our lives worse than they are.

We shouldn’t waste a second of our life complaining because complaining doesn’t solve problems. It only attracts them. Whenever we complain about pain or strain or any situation in our life, we stop ourselves from changing and complaining is contagious while we do it we give it to everyone else around us. Which means now you are surrounded by a complaining culture and we all know this; spending today complaining about yesterday won’t make tomorrow any better.

When we complain about our family, it’s so important to remember that there’s someone out there who just lost their parents. When we complain about our jobs, it’s so important to recognize that someone out there just lost their. We complain about college or University or school, it’s important to remember there are millions of children without access to education.

If today was the last day of your life, how would you change the way you speak? If today was your last day of your life, how would you change the way you think? if today was the last day of your life, how would you change the way you behave? how would you change the way you connect with the people closest to you? How would you change the way you interact with anyone that you need or see?

You never know when the last thing you said is going to be the last time that that person hears your voice. Are you happy with the last thing you said to a loved one? Are you happy with the last thing you thought about them? Are you happy with the last way you behaved with someone in your life? Go 24 hours without complaining and see how your life changes. The secret to having it all is knowing that you already do. And remember be careful what you save someone today because you may not have tomorrow to take it back.

“If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me… and since then, for the past 33 years I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I’m about to do today.”

And whenever the answer has been, “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Because almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure… these things just fall away in the face of death… leaving only what is truly important.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked; there is no reason not to follow your heart.

– Steve Jobs