“Dying is easy. It’s living that’s Hard” –

Some thoughts that I’d like to add to this great post…

“And It’s even harder to live with yourself if you’re always taking the easy path. The easy path often leads to loss of life (paramount to death), Hwowever the more challenging path often leads to reward and triumph.

@PaulGustavson

This, of course, makes perfect sense. Live to the fullest while you are alive because afterwards you won’t be able to.

Awesome post Barry! If there’s one thing that my affiliation with you and the rest of the John Maxwell Team has taught me it’s, “Do it afraid.” People spend so much time worrying about failure that they don’t live a full, rich life.

I try every day to make a positive impact on someone’s life.

I am by no means perfect and never purport to be. I do what I can, when I can, for whomever I think I can be of help. Whether it is at work, at home or for leisure, I will try to help someone in some way. One of my son’s friends asked me what I do for a living. Previously when asked that question, I would give an overview of what I did at the company and some of my daily duties. After putting some actual thought into it one day, I now have a different response. Now, I tell them that what I do for a living is to help people. All day long. My job is not about me at all. My job (in which I fail often) is to make other people’s lives easier if I can. You know what I do and you do something very similar. People need your help every day. Either in putting numbers together, figuring out how to build a job, etc.
If we can do that with leaving someone with a smile, I think our mission has been accomplished.

Each year, I will donate about 16 weeks of my time. This is about 2.5-3.5 hours per weekday giving kids opportunities to get better at baseball and grow as little human beings. A lot of people do this. I tell my kids as well as their friends that donating time to volunteer is something they should do at an early age and do it regularly if they can.

This Saturday(tomorrow), I will be taking a high school friend down the McKenzie River in my drift boat. About 3 weeks ago, she was diagnosed as clean from any cancer. She has been battling hard for about 2 years now. This is something she wanted to do, so I will do it. It helps her.

I am selfish, I am obstinate, I am a pain in my wife’s neck mostly. However, I try to do the right things and I try to help people for a living.

I hope I did not miss the point of the article, but this is my plan for living until I die.