Robin S. Sharma is one of the world’s premier thinkers on personal growth, life management, and leadership. He beautifully crafts his writing to give the readers a powerful yet elegant idea to deal with today’s oppressive life and achieve success and happiness.
We live in a world where everyone is in a hurry, where one has no time to sit and evaluate the meaningful aspects of their life. Sometimes, it is vital to impact the lives of your loved ones and those around you so that once you are gone, there will surely be a loss felt.
WHO WILL CRY WHEN YOU DIE? is a book on 101 life lessons that teaches us a simple way of transforming our mundane lives into a meaningful one that can further impact the lives of the generations following us.
The book starts with a beautiful quote by Norman Cousins, “The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.”.
Maintain your perspective: One of the greatest physicists, Stephen Hawking, once said that we live on a minor planet of a very average star located within the outer limits of one of a hundred thousand million galaxies. Given that, our are problems and troubles that big? Now and then, life pushes us into difficult situations, which becomes seemingly negative to handle. It is this time when we should maintain our perspective and continuously ask ourselves, “Is there a wiser, more enlightened way of looking at this seemingly negative situation?”.
It is during these challenging times, our true potential and the fullness of our strength are discovered. Begin to see the troubles as blessings and resolve to transform your deepest wounds into wisdom.
Focus on the worthy: time is of great essence and the most precious commodity, yet we carelessly live our lives in such a way as if we have all the time in the world. Prioritizing high leverage activities will advance life’s mission and legacy. Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”.
Enjoy the path, Not just the reward: Why is it so crucial for everyone to achieve their goals? The real value does not lie in the rewards you earn but in the person you become while attaining it. The real prize lies within us, the disciplinary growth that has manifested our potential abilities.
Increase your value: To become a valuable individual, upskill yourself, read books that no one else is reading, think thoughts that no one else is thinking. Learn to meditate because, without deep concentration, the mind remains the master rather than your servant. To get more from life, be more in life.
Life’s 101st lesson is to live fully so you can die happy. To live life with true potential is to live for something more than yourself and live to impact the lives of another.
Lastly, Robin Sharma beautifully portrayed that life is not a brief candle but a splendid torch to hold up for the moment when he wants to make it burn as brightly as he wants before handing it to future generations.