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Excerpts from the book: “Who will cry when you die?” by Robin Sharma
Love Your Work
One of the timeless secrets to a long, happy life is to love your work. Throughout history, the most satisfied people are those who loved what they did for a living and an intense passion for their work.
Spending your days doing work that you find rewarding, intellectually challenging and fun will do more than all the vacations in the world to keep your spirits high and your heart engaged. When you love your job, you discover you will never have to work another day in your life. Your work will be play and the hours will slip away as quickly as they came.
Inspired By Purpose
[Quote from Patanjali]
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Live Fully So You Can Die Happy
While we are young, we spend our days striving and keeping up with social expectations. We are so busy chasing life’s big pleasures that we miss our on the little ones, like watching the sun rise, playing in park with kids, smell of a morning rain. We live in an age where we have conquered the highest of mountains but have yet to master ourselves. We have taller buildings but shorter tempers, more possessions but less happiness, fuller kinds but emptier lives.
We spend our days striving to get the things that will make us happy rather than having the wisdom to realize that happiness is not a place you reach but a state you create. Happiness and a life of deep fulfillment come when you commit yourself, from the very core of your soul, to spending your highest human talents on a purpose that makes a difference in others’ lives.