Never Enough

Statistically speaking, you will live for twenty-eight thousand days. These days will move on indifferently, constantly, at the same rate, regardless of whether you want them to pass quickly or last forever. Once a day has passed, it is irretrievable. Most of us are wasting this precious time—barely surviving on a life support system of television and Prozac. We may as well be in a coma. Or as Benjamin Franklin put it: “Most people die at age twenty-five, but they are not buried until age seventy-five.” You cannot afford to postpone your life for another moment. Our frenzied pace of life has caused us to consider a different path—to realize that it does not have to be this way. I refuse to believe that we are not meant for better days. The tips in this book will help you balance what you need to do and have to do with what you want to do, so that you can find the happiness that comes with the creation of a life worth living. Answer the most important question first: Why did you pick up this book? You must be feeling that you have a personal destiny that is different from the life that you are living now. Perhaps you have that uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach that signals a soul in distress. Some of the things that could be tugging at you to change include: • Lost enthusiasm for your work • The desire to be energized by something new • Feeling burdened by your job • The need to create a meaningful life • The feeling that there has got to be something more This leads me to my challenge to you. What better place than here? What better time than now? I was able to take my life back. What is stopping you? If you do not do something with this information, there will always be that persistent feeling that you have missed an opportunity. You will be forced to wonder if you could have done more with your life. If you try to make the right life for yourself, succeed or fail, you win. You win because you will have learned that you care enough about yourself to try. You will have also learned that you don’t have to settle for a mediocre life. If you are going to go down, go down swinging. Take it from me. I am the voice of painful experience. I am an expert on this subject because I have screwed up so many times that I have learned what not to do. I just hope that you can learn from my mistakes without having to suffer the same consequences. We are all creatures of habit, from our favorite sports teams to our favorite spot on the couch. That is why “new” Coke was such a flop. Research has shown that it takes twenty-one days to create a new habit. Read this book cover to cover. Answer all of the questions that are asked of you. Then give yourself twenty-one days to…