How to motivate yourself
By Steve Chandler
1. The first chapter, Get on Your Deathbed, certainly captures the reader's attention. What is your meaning?
This was an experience I had with my great consultant and coach Devers Branden,wife of author Nathaniel Branden, who took me through an exercisewhere I lay on my own imaginary death bed and said goodbye to everyonein my life one at a time. It was powerfully emotional, and it illustrated howshallow and petty life can become when we put everything off till tomorrow. The Samurai call this dying before you go into battle. Death gives us a great surge of life. It is not to be feared.
2. People do tend to make their lives chaotic. What price do they pay? They swirl in the illusion of busyness, when it's really a combination oflaziness and fear. The most productive lives are bold and simple; they are livesin which it is possible to live by one's own highest priorities and not by trying toplease others. Most people waste their lives trying to 'win people over'never realizing that the chaos and misery created by that vain pursuitwill end in the chaos you refer to.
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