Live Like You're Dying

Live your life like you're dying

One of my favourite songs is Tim Mcgraw's Live, like your dying. It speaks about a man who finds out he is dying and then what he does after knowing that fact. He goes out and sky dives, he goes rocky mountain climbing, he rides a bull, and he spends time with people he didn't have time for before.

He does all the things he should have done all along. You don't know when your time is coming, so why live your life saying oh poor me, that can't happen to me. I have been cursed all my life; I can't do this for that. I'm too old or poor or insert your sob story here.

Maybe you're not taking the steps you need to, maybe because you're procrastinating. Maybe it's your actions or what you are speaking into the atmosphere about yourself or your life that is affecting you.

If you tell a child every day from the time they were born that they are stupid, that child will grow up believing that they are stupid. The same thing is happening in your mind; you might have been brought up with someone saying that to you, and now you believe it, you might think you're doomed.

You think you will never amount to anything because someone once said that, and now that has become your mantra. You blame everything in your childhood; you are constantly putting it out there... if it wasn't because my parents were drunks, my dad abandoned us, we were poor, you were molested, ......again insert your sob story here.

Yes, I know that sounds harsh, but seriously, you are your own worst enemy. You are blocking your own blessings. You have told yourself this bullshit story so many times you actually believe it and guess what? You are fulfilling your own prophecy.

But here's the thing: your mind is an incredible tool; it can make you do things you never thought you could. It has let people survive unimaginable acts, the worst of times, things that might have otherwise killed us, but our minds made us believe we could survive, and we did.

You can change your life, you have control over your own mind, you can believe you're a loser, or you can tell yourself each and every day you're a winner. You need to say and believe that you are someone and you will show them.

It is up to you what you are putting out there and what you believe.

So today my friends, remember it's your life, you don't have to wait till someone tells you that you're going to die to live like that. Life is too short. I always tell you that my life motto is live life large, live it now, live it on your terms.

If the past few years of the pandemic haven't taught us anything, it taught us how precious life is and how, in a second, it can be gone. So why waste another week, another day or another second?

Don't let your past actions rule your present; live your life as if you're on the way out. Live it now; choose to live it like you're living it to the fullest. Speak your life into the atmosphere and then live it. Live it like you were dying.