What difference would you want to have made in the lives of the people around?
Imagine yourself in a funeral chapel; seeing the faces of friends and families as you pass along towards the front stage. You feel the shared sorrow of losing someone special, the joy of having known that person, that radiates from the hearts of the people present.
As you walk down the front stage and look inside the casket, you suddenly see yourself lying lifeless. This definitely is your own funeral, maybe a decade from today.
Your love ones, friends, colleagues and family had all come to honor you and express feelings of love and appreciation for your life.
Now think deeply...
What would you like various speakers who would be coming up to say few words about you and your life to say?
What kind of husband, wife, father, or mother would you like these words to reflect? What kind of friend? What kind of working associate?
What character would you want them to have seen in you? What contributions and achievements would you want them to remember you for?
What difference would you want to have made in the lives of the people around?
If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you must have discovered your purpose in life.
Then, you will reduce it to blueprint and develop a constructive plan to bring them to reality.
You have to make sure the blueprint is actually what YOU WANT and not what people want and demand from you.
To the extent to which we understand this principle, discovering our purpose by beginning with the end in mind and accept the responsibility of the results we get.
Life is all about the choices we make, what would it be?
A life of mediocrity/obscurity, or that of greatness?
What would your choice be?
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