How I Motivate Myself and The Real Ultimate Question

I've gotten to the point where I, I used to just post whatever I wanted to. I would just record anything that came to my mind, and I've been listening to some things lately that have kind of led me to believe that maybe what I ought to do is when I have a thought, see if it comes back, see if it really is worthy of my effort and time and something that I post. And this morning, two things came back to me. The first thing was that I post things on Facebook for me. I post things on social media, on my blog, for me. If they help you, great, but really they're more to help me. It's kind of like my, kind of like my diary, I guess. In the, in the old days, people would use a diary, I guess, and I kind of use social media for that.

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it's probably why I don't do a lot of Snapchat or Instagram, because I want to have a record. I want to know my thoughts. I want to see if I've grown. And so that was the first thing, was that I've, over the past couple of weeks, I've really thought how to say that without sounding the way it sounds. But really, that's, that's why I post things on Facebook. I post them for me. I'm trying to motivate myself and get myself to be better than I know how to be. And I think the best way to do that, for me anyway, is to have a record of what I've been thinking. And the second thing that keeps coming back over the past few days, I downloaded a new book, audiobook, about, I guess, about a week and a half ago, 2 weeks ago. It's called Blue Fisher, or no, it's called Blue Fish, and I've forgotten who the author is. Doesn't really matter. It's an interesting read or listen if you want to listen to it. It's about a guy who his living is making people's wildest dreams come true. It really is a fascinating story. But one of the things that he said in there was, you know, he has this thing where he says, you know, what if meteor's coming and we're all gonna die in 20 minutes? What do you do? And we've probably heard a number of variations of that over our lives. We've probably heard, you know, what would you do if you found out that you were gonna die in 6 months or a year? And you may have read a blog post of mine recently that a dear friend of mine's wife has been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Which, you know, praying that, that somehow she gets a miracle, that they get a miracle.

But the more I thought about that scenario, the more I thought it really isn't a very relevant question. We all know what we're going to do if we get the terrible news. We're going to grab on to the people we love and hold on for dear life. We're going to spend every moment we can with the people we care about and doing the things we care about. We're not gonna do anything, you know, heroic, unless being heroic is showing people how much you care about them, and I guess it is. I think the real relevant question is, what would happen if you found out today you're gonna live another 30 years? Then what do you do? Because most of us are. Most of us are gonna live another 30 years, and we can spend it living exactly like we are, or we can realize that we have a lot of time to get things done. We have a lot of time to accomplish something maybe we want to accomplish and we haven't really thought about it. So I, I don't wish on anyone horrible news today, but unfortunately somebody's going to get it. A lot of people are going to get it, and I think everyone knows what they'll do when they get that horrible news. They're gonna grab on to the people they love, they're gonna grab on to the things they love, and they're gonna spend as much time with it as they can, with them as they can. But if you get the news today that you're gonna live another 30 years, 40 years, 50 years, and what would you do then? It's an interesting thought.