Friday, January 29, 2010
Finding Your “Why”
The following powerful message is an excerpt from The Big Five For Life by John Strelecky:
“Imagine if every day of our life was cataloged. The way we felt, the people we saw, how we spent our time. And at the end of our life a museum was built. It was built to show exactly how we lived our life. If eighty percent of our time was at a job we didn’t like, then eighty percent of the museum would be dedicated to showing us unhappily spending our time at a job we didn’t like.
If we were friendly with ninety percent of the people we interacted with, it would show that. But if we were angry and upset or yelled at ninety percent of the people we interacted with, it would show that. If we loved the outdoors, or spending time with our kids, or celebrating life with our significant other, but only spent two percent of our life fueling those loves, then no matter how much we wished it be different, only two percent of our museum would be dedicated to that.
Imagine what it would be like to walk that museum toward the end of our life. How would we feel? How would we feel knowing that for the rest of eternity that museum would be how we were remembered? Every person who walked in it would know us exactly as we truly were. Our legacy would be based not on how we dreamed of living, but how we lived. Imagine if heaven, or the afterlife, or however we individually think of it, actually consists of us being the eternal tour guides for our own museum.”
The Institute for Finding Your Why would like to inspire museum dreams in all of us. We would like to encourage people to live life to the fullest, so that at the end, each of our lives would be a success as we individually define success. Starting with “Why” works in big business and small business, in the non-profit world and in politics. Those who start with Why never manipulate, they inspire, and people follow them not because they have to, but because they want to.
We are looking for a benefactor to leave a legacy through the work done in our Institute. Do you know someone to whom this would be meaningful? If so, please have them contact us.
