Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick
Don't lose faith
I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going
Was that I loved what I did
You've got to find what you love
And that is true for work as it is for your lovers
Your work's going to fill a large part of your life
And the only way to be truly satisfied
Is to do what you believe is great work
And the only way to do great work
Is to love what you do
If you haven't found it yet
Keep looking, and don't settle
As with all matters of the heart
You'll know when you find it
And, like any great relationship
It just gets better and better as the years roll on
So keep looking, don't settle

My third story was about death
When I was 17
I read a quote that went something like
"if you live each day as if it was your last
Someday you'll most certainly be right."
It made an impression on me
And since then, for the past 33 years
I've looked in mirror every morning and asked myself
If today were the last day of my life
Would I want to do what I'm about to do today
And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row
I know I need to change something
Remembering that I'll be dead soon
Is the most important tool I've ever encountered
To help me make the big choices in life
Because almost everything
All external expectations, all pride
All fear of embarrassment of failure
These things just fall away in the face of death
Living only what is truly important
Remembering that you're going to die
Is the best way I know
To avoid the trap of thinking
You have something to lose

No one wants to die
Even people who want to go to Heaven
Don't wan die to get there
And yet, death is the destination we all share
No one has ever escaped it
And that is, as it should be
Because death is every likely the single best invention of life
It's life's change agent
It clears out the old to make way for the new
Right now, the new is you

Your time is limited
So don't waste it living in someone else's life
Don't be trapped by dogma
which is living with the results of other people's thinking
Don't let the noise and others' opinions drown out your own inner voice
And most important
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition
They somehow already know
What you truly want to become
Everything else is secondary