“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart,” the visionary Steve Jobs once said.

86,400. That is how many seconds we have in a single day. Seconds. Days are for dreamers, hours for dry cleaners, minutes for telemarketers but seconds … seconds are for those who pursue life so passionately, that every moment counts.

Let’s say you get a full eight hours of sleep a night; that’s 28,800 less seconds to complete your daily goals.

Hopefully you’re commute to work isn’t more than the average 30 minutes; that’s another 3,600 seconds off the clock for a two-way, daily commute.

You eat well and set aside 30 minutes three times a day to refuel yourself; subtract another 5,400 seconds from the total 86,400.

Hopefully you work at a fulfilling career that values your contributions and ultimately helps to make you happy. Conservatively, you likely work a minimum of eight hours a day (I know, wishful thinking for a lot of us!); there’s another 28,800 seconds that you’ve committed to before you even opened your eyes.

That’s 66,600 seconds. 66,600 seconds just doing what we are all supposed to do at the minimum!