Urgency

Have you ever noticed that most people really have no sense of urgency when it comes to making improvements to their personal life? It seems as though procrastination and complacency have for the most part annihilated the importance of making things better. This seems to be true even amongst many people who have admitted that they want to and intend to achiever higher goals. People reason that with modern medicine they are likely to live into their upper eighties. There is plenty of time. Why rush it?

What do you mean why rush it?! Why put up with living in poverty or unhappiness or fear if you can have a better life? Why not have a better life starting right now?

What if, somehow, you were to wake up one day in exactly the life you have now, in your very same body, with all the memories and thoughts that you have now and all of the exact same circumstances but with the absolute knowledge that this was the very first day of your life?

What would change about your life? Would you handle things in the same ways that you do now? What would you think about the choices that had been made up until the point where you "woke up"? Would you resent the choices that were made  before you awoke? With a possibly fresh perspective on life, would you suddenly be more interested in making things better? Would you focus more on spending time with the people you loved? Maybe you would put more effort into getting the things that you want out of life.

Stop reading.

Take some time and think about this.

Once you realize how different your life could be if this one change occurred, realize that, every single day of your life, you have the option of making whatever choices and changes that you would make if this did happen. Every day is the first day of the rest of your life. And any day can be the day that you decide to take action to begin making the changes that will turn the life you have into the life you truly desire.

Now having mulled the previous scenario over for awhile, what if you knew with absolute certainty that this was the very last day of your life? What would you do? How would you spend your last day on earth? Who would you spend it with? Would you be facing death with a bunch of regrets and woes of things you wish you had done or said or things that you wished you could take back? The answers to these questions should give you somewhat of an idea of what kinds of changes you should begin making to your life right now.

Today.

Why today? The reason is because you never know what is going to happen. You might have the rest of your life planned out decades in advance but things seldom go according to plan. You could die at any time for dozens of different reasons from accidents to health problems to unexpected violence.
Every day is the first day of the rest of your life. And any day could be the last day of your life. Live each and every day as if they were your first and your last, squeezing every possible drop of life out of every moment and you will not regret it when the end does come.