Writing your obituary...

TangoWhiskey

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I heard an interesting interview yesterday of British rower Roz Savage, who rowed across the Atlantic and is targeting the Pacific. She has written a book called Rowing the Atlantic - Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean. In the interview, she talked about how she was stuck in the corporate job rut and an unraveling marriage; she sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary – the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for. They were very different. She realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn’t going to end up with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure, to "become" the version of the obituary she preferred, the "story" she wanted her life to read.

Sounds like an interesting exercise. How would you want yours to read? And do you need to change anything to make that happen?
 
i suspect that her 11 years as a management consultant allowed her to finance her dream life of adventure?
 
I heard an interesting little tidbit in a class the other day (one of the best instructors I've ever had).

She said "A personal mission statement should be the things you want people to say about you at your funeral, and be telling the truth."
 
"He believed his own press releases"
 
I really like "all things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia", but I hear its taken.
 
headline - Apparently the world really isnt big enough for two.... (insert humorous or flattering descriptive noun here)
 
"Fat guy chokes on donut.

Just kidding, Nick died, move on."
 
Thought about mine some time a few years ago. Came to similar conclusions, and changed the path I was heading. Haven't looked back or regreted a step since. Much better obituary now. :)
 
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