Some may find it depressing to think about death, but it can actually be a great technique to improve your life. Try, for example, to imagine laying on your deathbed. What could potentially give you cause for regret? Would it be all the money you didn’t make? Or would it be the friendships you didn’t nurture, the time you didn’t spend with your family, and the places you didn’t see? Now, consider if the way you currently live your life will give you cause for any regrets when you do actually come to lay upon your deathbed.Steve Jobs is a famous advocate of connecting to your own mortality. In his Commencement Speech at Stanford University, he said: “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important thing I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/important-things-in-life/
Bills. I constantly worry about money. Do I have enough in savings? Can we afford to turn the heat up? Vacation?! No we can't spend money on a vacation, we have to save for doom and gloom. Its stupid because we have money, its just that I was VERY poor after my divorce and I worry like someone who had lived through the Depression.
Protecting my investments. Getting to grips with my new novel idea and wondering whether i should visit the 3 countries it's set in before or after I start it. Wondering if I'll ever get back into music production. Trying to glean philososophical insights from the daily input. Feeling weak and powerless for continuing to smoke cigarettes. Tons of stuff actually.
