2012: The End of the World as We Know It?

July 21, 2009

You have three and a half years left to live… at the most, maybe less. December 21, 2012, is 1,248 days away. Some say that will be the end of time.

What if they are right?

This sort of information is kind of like a cancer diagnosis, when the doctors announce you have a certain number of days left to live. If they are right, you’ve got to make the most of your final days on this earth. But they could be wrong… or you could beat the “terminal” cancer, like Lance Armstrong did. So you can’t just go nuts, live irresponsibly, and blow all your life savings.

If you knew for certain that your life would end in three-and-a-half years, what would you do differently? What would you want to make sure you do in that time?

Can you say there is NOTHING you would change? THIS is exactly the life you would be living? If so, I congratulate and greatly admire you.

If not… why are you wasting your precious life? Why are you taking it for granted that you have years and years left to live, and assuming you can put off being happy a while longer? Why don’t you realize you may not even have three-and-a-half years left? You may not live to see next month. Fate is an indiscriminate hunter who is not at all interested in your schedule and plans.

I’m not trying to be all doom-and-gloom, and I don’t really need to hear your answers… but YOU do.

STOP taking your life for granted.

Create the life you want, today.

Good Luck!

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