LIVE A LIFE THAT MATTERS

Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrise, no minutes, hours, or days.
All things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame, and temporal power shrivel to irrelevancies.
It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.
So, too, your hopes, dreams, ambitions, plans, and to-do list will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It won’t matter where you came from.
It won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter?
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built.
Not what you got but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered, or encouraged others to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence, but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone.
What will matter are not your memories, but the memories that live on in those who loved you.
What will matter is how long you will be remembered and for what.
Living a life that matters does not happen by accident it happens by choice.
Choose to live a life that matters.

Simply my Thoughts
Dean Butler