You know its funny, as a group manager of a Linkedin group, I get numerous emails each day whenever my moderators approve a discussion.
I give each discussion a quick double check and get back to my busy day.
Today was a little different because the discussion came from someone who just experienced a loss in their life.
They posed the following question, which I pass onto you in hopes that it will help you to keep the things that matter most to you, front and center:
“Priorities. How do you define them?
Today I’m singing at my best friend/sister’s funeral. Puts everything in perspective, you know? I love my work and helping others, but my family and friends are the most important in the world to me. They are what really matters. What about you? Maybe you should make one less call today and just be home in time for dinner.”
Today we are cordially invited to respect our lives and relationships as something that is borrowed, with an expiration date and no “do over”.
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Peace!
Timely advice from the heart. Thank you so much.
Heather V.
Thank you Heather . . . Happy Monday to you my friend!
A very powerful reminder. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Linda!
thanks!!!
Thank you Doug . . . much appreciated!
“with an expiration date and no do over”…how true. Savor each moment, you will never experience it again.
We have to be continually mindful of this Marc.
Sometimes we have to remind ourselves!
Thanks for stopping by . . . I really appreciate it!
Beautiful thank you
Thank you Elizabeth!
Another great post uncle Paul,
So true! I experienced a deep loss of a cousin and best friend when she was only 36. We had grown up together and she was never married and had never really lived life.About the only positive thing that I took away from her death was the fact that it shook me to my core and it was that day that I started to change my life to no longer over-work, over-stress, over-eat, and I quit smoking the 2 packs a day I had been smoking for the previous 15 years. My daughter was all of two months old so I believe I have been a much better father because of it as well.
So thanks for the reminder Paul, but I firmly believe in balance. I realize there are people like Jeffrey Gitomer that say if you want to be rich you can’t have balance and I totally disagree but there is no question that I choose balance (my family) over being rich.
Thanks Paul!!
I’m awfully sorry to hear about your cousin Peter.
As far as wealth and lack of balance that’s complete bs, balance and wealth work quite nicely together . . . and you get to experience another kind of “wealth” as a bonus so I’m with you 100%!
Good for you Peter . . . we need barriers like this in our business!
Thanks for stopping by!
Thank you for sharing this, Paul.
May we all make the time to hug those we love just a little tighter tonight.
Great Reminder Paul, funny how this subject keeps popping up around me, and I too find family and loved ones are highest priority in my life and as time passes faster and faster I am reminded daily. There’s a song, “Teach me to number my days, and count every moment before it slips away…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f10eFw7KRB4
This is a somber post, but so relevant and IMPORTANT!! What I don’t get though, is that in times of remember priorities, and feeling and experiencing that loss, why that feeling; that change of course, doesn’t last for very long. I’ve been there myself — lost family, loved ones, mourned, but then gone back to the way things were. Is it just me? Or is this something that would be considered “normal”?
Thanks for always sharing your heart Paul — and things that are really TRULY important!!
Expiration date and no do over. How true. You have often asked, “how would you like to be remembered?” Is your epitaph going to read “always worked 100 hour weeks”? Or will it be more like “he/she made the world a little bit better for a lot of people”?