The Life Purpose Podcast on Life Signatures Radio

Every now and then, I give people assignments to do regarding the following: Writing their obituary and epitaph. It forces you to think about the impact that you left on the earth.

Invariably, people seldom want to do this assignment or complete it. It is tasking, involving and of course, ominous. However, thinking about your last day on the earth puts focus on how you will live your life.

On the cross, one of the last words that Jesus spoke were, "It is finished". Perhaps, those would be the most powerful words we can ever speak when our lives come to a close. Listen to this.

Every now and then, I give people assignments to do regarding the following: Writing their obituary and epitaph. It forces you to think about the impact that you left on the earth.

Invariably, people seldom want to do this assignment or complete it. It is tasking, involving and of course, ominous. However, thinking about your last day on the earth puts focus on how you will live your life.

On the cross, one of the last words that Jesus spoke were, "It is finished". Perhaps, those would be the most powerful words we can ever speak when our lives come to a close. Listen to this.

So we are told that success leaves clues. I agree. Death does too, especially the death of the successful. If we listened to what they said at the time of their deaths.

If we learnt what they did before they died. If we learnt how they died, we would have a lot of information to glean. Our lives are impacted by the death of others...but if we could learn to stare at our own deaths, chances are that the way we live would drastically change.

Listen to this.

So we are told that success leaves clues. I agree. Death does too, especially the death of the successful. If we listened to what they said at the time of their deaths.

If we learnt what they did before they died. If we learnt how they died, we would have a lot of information to glean. Our lives are impacted by the death of others...but if we could learn to stare at our own deaths, chances are that the way we live would drastically change.

Listen to this.

We live our lives at times for the moment. Thinking about our lunches and bills. We repeat this for years until we stare at death right in the face. We have been avoiding it all the while, ignoring it even. Now it becomes a reality.

That's when we discover the gems of life that have gone by. That's when we realize that our focus might not have been the right one. That's when the urgency of doing the right thing seems so overwhelming for us against the time that we have.

If we could only realize that life and death are connected, we would focus on both, and not just living each waking day. Listen to this.

Death has so much finality that we tiptoe through life trying to evade it. But when each one faces themselves on their death bed or when they have a brush with it, what comes to their mind is something pure, something deep and something worth listening to.

That is why we strive so much to listen to a dying man or woman. We know that what they are saying is not fake, it is the truth. As much as the subject of death is taboo in some quarters, we stand to learn so much from the grim reaper, especially by looking at those who have gone before us. Listen.

Death has so much finality that we tiptoe through life trying to evade it. But when each one faces themselves on their death bed or when they have a brush with it, what comes to their mind is something pure, something deep and something worth listening to.

That is why we strive so much to listen to a dying man or woman. We know that what they are saying is not fake, it is the truth. As much as the subject of death is taboo in some quarters, we stand to learn so much from the grim reaper, especially by looking at those who have gone before us. Listen.

You can "mirror" a major brand that is doing what you want to do in the market, or that has opened your eyes to see how things can be done, how things could be better.

Not all the information you have is yours. Not all of us will be successful by deploying only our original ideas and information. We do need from time to time, ideas from elsewhere, especially from the people that are movers and shakers in the trade we are in.

Instead of copying and stealing trade secrets, there is something clean that you and I can do to learn from them, to benchmark and to develop. Listen to this.