Ducksouth Challenge

[matador1]

parlaying off of the thread about how you change when you have kids I thought I would issue you all a challenge. I did this a year ago at a life/ business planning trip and it was unreal how it changed me. Get to a quiet place with a notebook, blind, stand, woods, wherever, and write your own obituary exactly how you would want it to read. Then spend this next year reading it every month. You will be amazed how much more aware you are of your own faults, how you motivate yoursefl, how you don't put things off. Pretty cool deal.

[jacksbuddy]

Doing that is part of my Life Plan anyway. If you have never written one before, I highly recommend you do so. It is very sobering, and I believe it will make a better man out of you.

Here's how I did it.
1) List all of the roles you have in your life. Don't limit yourself to a certain number, be as exhaustive as possible. And write them down. Then,
2)Imagine you are at your own funeral, and you have one person from each of these roles is going to say something about you specific to that role. i.e. - wife will tell about you as a husband, kids will tell of you as a Dad, etc. Write down what you actually want them to say about you. Then,
3) Be brutally honest with yourself and write down what you truly believe they will say if your funeral were today. Then,
4) Write down corrective steps for each role.
5) Review regularly.