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What Will It Have Meant to Be You?
Ten years older? Did you live or waste everything you were given?
Ten years from now, you are sitting in a bar with an old friend, who asks, “You are ten years older than the last time I saw you. What did it mean to be you?”
This might be one of the most important questions in your life, because the only way to answer it is to define who you are, what you want, and how you will live, and realizing we might not have any answers for these questions can be humbling.
You were given ten years; did you change the world around you for the better, did you create wealth to protect yourself and your family, did you make a difference, or are you just ten years older and did nothing, changed nothing and made no difference to anyone wasting your life by being alive, but not really living?
We hide from the big questions in our lives because they are too difficult to face. We don’t want to talk about core values, we don’t want to discuss personal faith and belief, and we don’t want to be forced to sit and examine a life that might be going nowhere and making no difference to those around us.
What you found inside yourself during a careful examination of the soul used to be called core values. These values were a map that kept you on course during the…
