THIS IS BRILLIANT
"If you live each day as if it was your last,
someday you'll most certainly be right.
If today was the last day of my life
would I want do what I'm about to do today?
Whenever the answer has been NO
for to many days in a row,
I know I need to change something.
Remembering that we'll all be dead soon,
is the most important tool I've ever encountered
to help me make the big choices in life.
External expectations, all pride, fear of embarrassment of failure.
Almost everything 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 loose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Your time is so limited
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma,
which is living with the results
of other peoples thinking.
Don't let the noice of other peoples
opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you want to become.
Everything else is secondary."
SPEECH BY STEVE JOBS,
JUNE 2005