Live Each Day As If It Were Your Last

This is a phrase we've all heard before but how many of us actually do this?  My guess is not many.

Do you sit at work watching the clock, waiting for home time?  Or watch your children play, counting the minutes until bedtime?  Do you look forward to the days in your week by thinking about when your favourite television programmes are on? The days disappear, they turn into weeks, then months and then years.  Before you know it you look back at the last few years and everyday has felt very much the same and you have achieved little.  Life is passing you by and you are bored.

STOP!

Take a minute to think about if today was your last day, is there anything that you would regret? Do the people in your life know how you really feel about them?  Are there experiences that you wished you had done?  Are there places you wished you had been to?

Now make yourself a 'Bucket List' of all of the things you want to do and see in your lifetime.  It can be something as small as having a cup of coffee at an intriguing cafe you have passed a thousand times but have never been into.  Or reading a particular book you've often thought about reading but never actually sat down and done it.  Or it can be something huge such as travelling to a country you have always wanted to go to.  Or acting on a business plan you've had in mind for a long while now. Keep your Bucket List with you at all times and continue to add to it every time you come across something else you'd like to do.  Never stop adding to your Bucket List.  Make your Bucket List your life.

The good news is that it's highly likely that today isn't your last day.  So you have no excuse not to start doing the things listed in your Bucket List.  Yay!  We don't know what lay ahead in our future and which day will be our last so it's important that we live in the present.  Enjoy each day for what it is.  Stop procrastinating and letting your life sail away without a destination and start doing something each day from your Bucket List and living each day as if it were your last.