Your Future Begins Today

Are you working to live? Do you numb out and go through the motions in order to collect a check? Or is your work an expression of your life? Is how you show up in the world the same regardless of whether or not it is a workday or a play day? Are the clothes you wear drastically different? What about your tone of voice or the words you speak? Do you have a work persona and then suddenly become someone totally different in your so-called “free time?”

More and more people are looking for holistic, integrated lives. Our days are numbered. Sorry to be the reminder of this fact but none of us are getting any younger. In the end, how do you want to be remembered? What is the legacy that you want to leave behind?

Years ago, when Steven Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” was all the rage, I did an exercise from the book that profoundly changed my approach to living and working. I wrote out the eulogy to my own funeral. With the desired end clearly in my mind, I was better able to make better choices about what to do today. My deepest held values began to inform my decisions.

Grab a notepad, find a quiet moment, and begin with the end in mind. Let your desired legacy guide every word, thought, and action from this moment forward.

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