Important Things in Life
I’m
sure you have experienced a wake up call at some point in your life.
Events such as a divorce, a new baby, a firing, a terrorist attack, or a
near-death experience tend to hit us like a ton of bricks and are not
easily forgotten.Personally, what I find interesting is that implicit in
the idea of a wake up call is that we have, in some sense, been asleep.
What is it that we have been asleep to?When I think of wake up calls,
the word that comes to mind is “priorities”. Wake up calls tend to make
us stop, pull back from the runway of life, and consider exactly what it
is that is important to us.Very often we realize that we have had our
priorities upside down. Perhaps we have been spending too much time at
the office, too little time with our kids, or have been neglecting our
health. So to answer my earlier question, it seems to me that many of us
travel through life asleep to what really is important.If you are in a
slumber, the following are some ideas to help you wake up and remember
the important things in your life:
Connect to Your Own Mortality
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