You've Only Got x Years Left

Apologies in advance to anyone who may find the post I am about to write morbid, but I think the issue I am going to discuss is a very important one.

Based, in my case, on the fact that the average male, at least in the United States, lives to be 75, and given that (a) if there is a heaven, then I won't be on earth once I am there and (b) if reincarnation exists, I won't exist AS ME, once that has occurred, then the clock is ticking.

Need this be a dreadful thing? No, on the contrary, this is a call to squeeze the juice out of life to the greatest degree possible, because you ain't got much of it!

Equally, it is a call to take care of your body, as well as those of your children, because a life plagued with health problems is a very different experience from a life lived in a healthy, alert, body.

It is also a call to get yourself fit psychologically. By this I mean that most of us tend to assume that whatever personality traits we have, we are stuck with. We assume this. And that is important, because to assume something is true is to believe it without having studied it.

If we examine, however, what we know about life, we know that we are not who we were (usually), ten years ago. Certainly we are not who we were when we were teenagers. So, personality can be changed.

Stephen Covey's book emphasizes one important point in regard to this: EITHER YOU CHANGE ACCORDING TO YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES, OR YOU CHANGE YOURSELF WILFULLY, DELIBERATELY, TO BE THE PERSON YOU WANT TO BE.

This is no small issue. As I say, you only get a finite amount of time on this earth, as the "you" that you are. And it really is not very long.

You must therefore decide what is important to you, and then pursue that. And often, to pursue such goals, you will need to change aspects of your personality.

The question, then, is that of how you change yourself to pursue those goals that you have decided are important. At the moment I am exploring "NLP". It sees promising. I encourage you to look it up on Google. Or, you could check out "Mark Shepard" "NLP". I am reading his material at the moment, and they strike me as having promise for changing those aspects of yourself that you want to change.