In an earlier post I spoke about one of the boxes of life relating to how we spend our days. I see this in the faces and actions of those around me in the real estate world and life in general every day. I talked about giving more of a percentage of your life to the Non Urgent Yet Very Important things in your life. Surely, we have to take a big chunk of our effort to pay for those higher gasoline prices these days. But life is not about making a living. It is about a contribution. It is about a shift from success to significance. This is the reason so many people at mid life have epiphanies and go on to second or third acts in their life. From bouncer to nurse, from truck driver to real estate to nursing home volunteer. Somewhere along the way you decide you really were supposed to be a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa.
So what I have concluded is you have to understand with clarity your values. What do you REALLY believe is important in your life? In the end it should be about people and also your spirituality. With people what is the most precious gift you can give to them?
GIVE OF YOURSELF AND YOUR TIME
That is what will forever be remembered. Who the true you is and the "precious" hours and minutes of YOU that you dedicated, without distraction, to them. How do I know that is important and true? Because I have talked with many grandchildren at various ages, teenage and young adults and they all tell me how now deceased grandma or grandpa baked this pie for them or picked blueberries near the railroad tracks, or some other life imprinting memory.
Put yourself with all your focus into others lives. They will never forget you took the TIME to LOVE them!!
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