Imagine that every moment of our life, every hour, every day was recorded and catalogued. The way we felt, the people we saw, and how we spent our time.And at the end of our life a museum was built to honour us. It was built to show exactly how we lived our life.
If eighty percent of our time was spent at a job we didn't like, then eighty percent of the museum would be dedicated to showing us unhappily attending a job we didn't like.
There would be pictures and quotes and little video monitors where people could pick scenes of different unhappy moments. If we were friendly with ninety percent of the people we interacted with, it would show that. But if we were angry and upset or yelled at ninety percent of the people we interacted with it would of course show that instead. Those also would be documented along with photos and little video clips and audios.
If we love travelling, or spending time with our children or friends, or celebrating life with our partner, but spent only two percent of our life fuelling those loves, then no matter how we wished it to be different, only two percent of our museum would be dedicated to that. Maybe just a few pictures at the end of a long hallway.
Imagine what it would be like to walk through that museum toward the end of our life. To view the videos, listen to the audio, and look at the pictures. How would you feel? How would we feel knowing that for the rest of eternity, that a museum would be how we would be remembered. Every person who walked through it would know us exactly as we truly were. Our legacy would be based not on how we dreamed of living, but how we actually lived.
Imagine also if heaven, or the afterlife, or however you think of what life is after we die, actually consists of us being the eternal tour guide for our own museum.
And now let's switch from imagination to reality, and from a museum to memories. Memories we hold and will look back on, and memories that others hold of us. We want you to have a life that when you get to the end of your life to be able to look back and say 'wow, that was amazing'
John P Strelecky
author of the BIG FIVE FOR LIFE
