“Remembering the shortness of life strips away the distractions of life and reminds us of what is most important…that our months are numbered.  So what’s the point of playing small?  What’s the point of fearing failure?  What’s the point of worrying about other’s opinions?  What’s the point of denying your duty to lead?” Robin Sharma.  Last week I shared a thought I had about the inevitability of death and the fact that there is no point to play small or scared.  For most of us, whatever we do will be forgotten so there is no point in pretending what we do is so vital in the moment that we will suffer the rest of our lives.  All that we have is right now and fear of the past or the future is preventing us from making decisions we need to in this moment.  Knowing that we can be gone tomorrow is both a blessing and a burden.  The burden part is obvious.  The blessing comes because it allows us a freedom and a drive to pursue what calls to us in the moment.  To stick with the dream and to go after it because if we achieve it, it’s ours, but if we fail that is ours as well.  There’s no point in forgetting that we are here to lead ourselves and others to a better path.

Let go of the fear of what people think and the story we tell ourselves that we don’t know what we want or how to get it.  We most certainly know what we want, most of us just spend too much time pretending we can’t get it and then we believe those excuses so we start creating an environment where it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy and nothing we want comes to fruition. The shortness of life isn’t meant to scare us, it’s meant to motivate us to action toward what we are called to.  There is no point to do anything but other than what we are called to do. There is no reason to hold back from the life we are meant to have and what feels right.  Our time is finite and we don’t know the number of days we have available to us so it’s more imperative to make the most of each day.   I also want to elaborate on how quickly we can lose those we love.  We are never guaranteed any day we have, nor are those we love.  Things can change in an instant so it’s important to ask ourselves if what we are doing not only makes us happy and serves a purpose but if it keeps us in proximity to what and who we love.  What is the point in spending our time doing anything other than what we love with anyone other than who we love?  Take responsibility for the life we want and go for it.