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basis live as if you will die tomorrow dream as if you will live forever it was
kind of funny because a friend of mine just sent me that quote a few weeks ago
and it's actually on this James Dean picture there's a quote there by him
that says the exact same thing but actually I don't think that James Dean
was the first person to say that the sentiment behind that is really nice you
know we hear quotes like that and they sound good they sound inspirational and
to some degree they make logical sense but actually I don't think that that's
very realistic or even applicable if you think about if you really lived your
life every single day as if tomorrow you were going to die I don't think I would
be do I would be very productive I don't think that I would exercise at all I
don't think that I would pay my bills I think that I would just cuddle up with
my family every single day and try to connect with them as much as possible
thinking that this will be their last memory of me and then it's kind of sad
too so living as if you're going to die tomorrow isn't realist realistic at all
or applicable dreaming as if you will live forever okay
I think dreaming is good because it gets your imagination going and it gets your
creativity going but I don't like to get too dreamy I like to dream up visions
that I think I can actually create that I can make happen and I'll do another
video about that so overall even though this quote sounds nice I don't think
that it's it's too helpful so what I what I do think is helpful is
this sentence here which is live as if you're going to die someday and you
don't know when that day is not only is that very realistic I think it's also
very useful because we're not guaranteed a long life and I think most people most
young people and most even middle-aged people live as if they're going to live
forever that like to have unlimited time and I never became so aware of this as
when I first started selling life insurance when I first started selling
life insurance I had two kids under the age what one was one and one was under
the age of one and I thought I this is an important policy I need to get it and
so of course I got myself plenty of life insurance and I thought that anybody who
had a family to protect anything like that this would be a no-brainer I could
not believe the trouble I ran into some people would get angry at me if I just
even mentioned it what I started to realize is that people have a hard time
accepting their own mortality and by even having a discussion about life
insurance brought that to to the forefront of that person's mortality and
if they even had to get to the point of or they got to the point of purchasing a
life insurance policy this in a sense was admitting their mortality or facing
their mortality and most people I talked to couldn't even do that even at the
risk of their family's financial future so right away I started looking into
this and and into my own mortality as well because obviously I accepted it
enough to buy a policy but what I was really thinking about was what happens
to my family if I pass early and the more I started getting into accepting
the idea of my own Martell I found out that there was a very
interesting side tonight at first it seemed very dark to me it seemed very
dark to say okay I'm gonna admit to myself more than just intellectually but
really understand that my life is finite and I don't know what I'm going to pass
and the more I started to do this the more I realized how precious life is and
how precious time is because you don't get an unlimited amount of it and that's
when I started to really feel like I began to live now some people might
think well if I if I live like that if I live with the acceptance of death that I
am going to be very headed mystic or nihilistic and not care about anything
not care about other people and just do whatever the hell that I want and that's
just really not true because if you're if you care about people and you care
about things in your life when the more you accept your mortality the more
precious those things become the more you realize you you don't you can't put
things off anymore you have to answer the call of your potential it also you
start to get a sense of greater purpose and meaning in your life it's not the
other way around a lot of people think that it well having life seems
meaningless if it's just if I'm just going to die and it's just not true and
so religion and in a lot of ways and I'm not trying to step on anyone's religious
beliefs here if you believe in a religion everything that I'm going to
say here does not negate it I think religion and sometimes as an attempt to
answer that question or to make people feel better about their mortality by
giving or having this idea of an afterlife and and in some religions
there's reincarnation so I think unfortunately the side effect to that is
thinking that oh well I'm not this isn't the real life it's the afterlife is the
real life or if your believe in reincarnation well I'm gonna have many
more lives so I don't really need to do much in this life and I think that
actually goes against the overall idea of religion and that is to give your
life meaning and purpose so if your life has meaning and purpose there's a
even more reason to answer the call of your potential that's even more reason
to do what compels you and to not put things off and to get out there and
really see what's possible in this life because you were given this life not by
accident that there is true meaning and purpose to your life so if you believe
in God or you believe in a higher power then my best guess is that God our
higher power wants you to actualize your potential wants you to give them put the
most in your life invest the most in your life do as much as you possibly can
actualize your potential I can't imagine a god tossing you into this life and
saying oh it's just temporary just hang out here and prepare for the afterlife
or prepare for your next 10 lives that you're going to live you can believe
that if you want to I don't think it's very useful or helpful but what I'm
saying is here that you can totally believe in a religion you can believe in
an afterlife you can believe in reincarnation and get the most out of
this life and why would you not want to this life is temporary if you come to
terms with that you will really begin to live it to the fullest most people are
living their lives taking it for granted taking time for granted as if there's an
unlimited amount of time and when people do that because they're not accepting no
more their mortality there's no urgency then there's no call to action but when
you accept that this is this time is limited then suddenly you will feel that
urgency you will feel that call to action and you will start writing that
novel you will go on that trip that you've been wanting to go to to Europe
or Africa you'll you'll realize that it's time to start taking action not
just think about these things a lot of times people will think about things and
give themselves the sense that they sort of done it but no you haven't and action
is action and thinking is thinking so get out of just thinking about it and
start doing it so accept that you're going to die some day and you don't know
when it will be be tomorrow it could be 80 years from
now knowing that it's it's it's temporary actually makes it more
powerful actually makes it more sacred and precious and if you've had brushes
with death like I have I've had a few and most people have what I've noticed
is that when you do that or when that happens that suddenly everything that's
most important to you comes into focus and all the trivial things that you may
have been stressing out about or that you were taking too serious suddenly
falls by the wayside and it's you just realize it's not even important and it's
it's a paradox and it's it's kind of odd but it's coming close to death is what
really makes you feel alive and that has a lot to do with realizing what's really
important so telling people to live as if you're going to die tomorrow I think
the idea behind that is to get people to focus in on what's really important and
let go of the things that aren't important but unfortunately most people
can't bring themselves to really believe that or think like that like I'm I'm
going to die tomorrow so let's get more realistic about it let's just accept the
fact about it is that we're going to die we don't know when it will happen it but
it will happen someday and that alone will put the fuel in the engine and get
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