![]() He was let go, quite unexpectedly and after being told how “valuable” he was, from a job that he truly loved and looked forward to every day. We have such an opportunity each and every day to pick our head up from whatever we might think is “critical” in the moment and focus our attention on something “sweeter,” or a friend who needs us, or something that we enjoy.Ī client of mine is out of work right now. How he “spoke sweeter” and “became a friend a friend would like to have.” These are the opportunities that are available to us no matter what else is happening in our lives. But one of the other lines in the song talks about how he “gave forgiveness” he’d been denying. It’s not possible for everyone to drop what they are doing and go skydiving or bull riding. Only when a person finds that their life might be over do they stop caring or worrying about the bills to be paid, the retirement account to be funded and the next week’s commitments. Why does it take a significant life event to break our hold on what we “have to do” and get us to focus on what we’d “love to do”? I know for many people it’s the realities – we have to make a living, we have commitments, we can’t abandon the responsibilities staring us in the face each day. He says that he hopes everyone gets the chance to “live like you were dyin’.” ![]() He sings about a man who is diagnosed with a terminal illness and uses the opportunity to do things he would never have done – go skydiving, go rocky mountain climbing, and sit on a raging bull for 2.7 seconds. ![]() For those readers who dislike country music, it probably gets old that I find so much of my material here, but this line from one of Tim McGraw’s biggest songs always gets to me.
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