What if You Lived as if Today Was Your Last Day on Earth?

Today on my business consulting website, I blogged about a great man in business. Steve Jobs. Steve, the co-founder of Apple Computer died this week, leaving a legacy of change, hope and innovation.

But Steve Jobs wasn't just a great business man, he was a man who lived his own life and was inspiration to an entire generation.

In his commencement speech to Stanford University in 2005, he talked about a few things that truly inspired him in his life.

One of them was a quote he read at the age of 17:

"If you live each day as if it was your last, some day you most certainly will be right."

Every day he would ask himself if he was doing what he loved that day.

Can you say that you've ever done that? Have you lived as if you only had time to do that which you really loved?

Steve didn't graduate from college and was adopted by parents who didn't graduate from college (in fact his father didn't graduate from high school.)

However, he somehow learned that doing what he loved was more important than anything else in life.

We tend to think that successful people had it easy.

But Steve Jobs followed the path less taken. He dropped out of college even though his parents were willing to pay for him to go to any school he wanted.

And then, he continued to go to classes at that same university that INTERESTED him! Some of the classes inspired him over 10 years later as he was creating the wildy successful Macintosh computer.

His legacy reminds us that what we do every day affects the rest of our life.

He also reminds us that we always have the choice and the power to live the life WE want.

Yes, sometimes we get STUCK! But there are many ways to get UNStuck.

Don't let your days go by wishing you had done something different.