Motivation to Organize
Live Like You Were Dying

An inspiring way to add motivation to your organized way of living is to listen to Tim McGraw's song Live Like You Were Dying. The song nearly always brings tears to my eyes. It is an awesome song sung by an awesome singer. Get your MP3 copy here -

The words and the meaning is what gets to me.

I made serious changes to my life based on the ideas in that song.

The message is so powerful.

When I was about 40, my uncle John died of lung cancer. He was about 62 years old.

I was married with 2 children but I was not happy with my wife.

She was verbally abusive to me and no matter what I did; I could not get her to stop.

At that point in my life I was very depressed and low and not knowing what to do.

I did not have the motivation to change.

I thought that since my wife was a few years older than me, that she would die before I did and I would then have a few good years at the end.

I figured I would just have to tough it out for 20 or 30 more years. After all I was a man. Shouldn't I be able to take it?

When my uncle died at 62, my thought pattern started to shift. It started to shift from the idea of it's not that bad, I'll survive, others have it worse; to why shouldn't I have a good life?

Why shouldn't I have a good life?

Didn't I deserve it?

What if I don't even make it to 62?

When will I live? Why don't I matter?

That's why that song means so much to me. It added to my motivation to make my life better.

Here is the Live Like You Were Dying Music Video from the Bucket List movie with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. This clip is so fantastic and I can't wait to see the movie. If you don't cry from this clip you probably won't cry from anything.

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This Video from Stefan Molyneux of Freedomainradio.com is also a great way to think of living now.

Some people are masters of living a good life.

Start doing what they do. You deserve a great life too. You don't need to sacrifice. You need to live. I need to live. It is up to you.

What does live like you are dying have to do with organizing?

Everything.

Everything.

How can you do the things you want to do, that are important to you if you are too busy and exhausted from doing other things?

That is my point. You need to reduce or stop doing things that are not right for you and start doing the things that are right. Start doing the things you would do if you were dying. Use this idea as your motivation to organize your life and to make whatever changes are needed.

Maybe you don't want to skydive, climb mountains or ride bulls.

Those things are just a poetic way of expressing the grand thoughts and ideas we have for fun and excitement.

In my case I had to to stop being married a woman who was no good for me.

I didn't really have any fixed plans for what I would do after I left.

I did know that staying with her was killing me. Maybe not physically, but emotionally.

She was killing my spirit. My sense of who I was.

Now that I have been gone over 2 years I have never felt better health wise. I am rested. I would like to lose weight but I feel great most of the time.

Now that I am gone, my possibilities are endless.

Sure, it takes time and money and effort to do things. The possibilities don't come immediately. But they come.

My marriage effectively stopped all my possibilities.

I was just a slave. Bring home the bacon. Work till I drop around the house. Walk on eggshells if she is in a bad mood. Be the whipping boy for all her problems. Hear her profanity laced verbal assaults. Be questioned about my every word and thought. Made to feel like I have to agree with her every word.

If you are in a marriage that is draining your soul then you need to get out.

No counseling. No compromises. No maybes. Get out, now.

Live like you are dying will be your motivation.

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