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I love the idea of something called the reverse obituary.
Try this: Write down what you want your obituary to say, then figure out how to live up to it.
It's the cleanest, simplest way to plot out what you want in life and what truly matters.
Everyone's self-written obituary will be different. But I suspect most people would want theirs to say: You were loved.
You were respected. You were admired. You were helpful. You were a good parent, a good spouse, a caring friend. You were an asset to your community. You made a contribution to your industry. You were wise, funny, and smart.
The Art of Spending Money
Morgan Housel
store but suffering, death, and forgetfulness, he had made up his mind that life was impossible like that, and that he must either interpret life so that it would not present itself to him as the evil jest of some devil, or shoot himself. But he had not done either, but had gone on living, thinking, and feeling, and had even at that very time married, and had had many joys and had been happy, when he was not thinking of the meaning of his life. What did this mean? It meant that he had been living rightly, but thinking wrongly.
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. That is fairly well understood, at least in the arts. Mark Twain’s experience comes to mind, in which, after he had mastered the analytic knowledge needed to pilot the Mississippi River, he discovered the river had lost its beauty. Something is always killed.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
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