If your life were a book, would anyone want to read it? Start creating your story.
Featured photo credit: Open the book of knowledge for learning. via ShutterstockWe have all heard the old adage, “Life is short, go live it.”
The problem is that it takes so many people an entire life before they start living it or not living it. It’s so easy to get stuck living the everyday mundane tasks instead of doing those that really make your heart sing.
We spend our lives working our jobs waiting around to live, and when that time arrives we often end up on the porch lamenting about all those things we didn’t do, while we wait around to die.
This was actually the exact thought that went through my head when I decided to quit my job at an accounting firm and join a startup company. I just finished reading the Steve Jobs biography and thought, "If somebody wrote a book about my life, I'd hate to say that I wouldn't want to read it… but on my current trajectory, that's how I'd feel".
And aren't you so glad you had that thought and did something about it?