Day 536:
Boost your self-esteem by writing your obituary.
Welcome to the one hundred and seventy-first day of our second volume of
this series. On the corresponding day of the first volume we had:
Boost
your self-esteem by sleeping on it.
I got this story from a top motivational speaker who has had many books
on the best seller list including one which has sold more than six million copies:
The story of Alfred Nobel:
In 1904 Alfred Nobel's brother died. Alfred was interested in knowing what
the papers thought of his brother so he read his obituary. Unfortunately the
paper had made a mistake and printed his obituary. When Alfred Nobel noticed
that if he had died the world would have known him only for his invention of
dynamite, he decide to change his real obituary and founded the Nobel foundation
which gives the Nobel peace prize and was known for that.
When I heard the above story on an audio tape I decided to write this article
on boosting your self-esteem by writing your obituary. The story is an excellent
motivational story with one minor problem. It is mostly false. Alfred Nobel
died in 1896 his will surprised his family and friends since he had left most
of his vast fortune in trust to establish what came to be the most highly regarded
of international awards, the Nobel Prizes in the fields of physics, chemistry,
physiology, and literature which were his lifelong passions. The peace prize
was most probably inspired by his friendship with the prominent Austrian pacifist
Bertha von Suttner. What is true about the above story is that when in 1888
Alfred's brother Ludvig had died while staying in Cannes, France, the French
newspapers confused him with Alfred, and one paper sported the headline "Le
marchand de la mort est mort" ("The merchant of death is dead.") Anyway it is
a great teaching story no matter what.
So for today's piece start by thinking about how would you like to be remembered
after you have died. Relax and meditate on the issue for a while. Now open your
success journal and start writing your obituary as fast as possible. Keep this
handy and read it every now and again and as your goals change rewrite it in
the same way that newspapers rewrite the obituary of famous people.
Note upcoming seminars:
Kindle your self-esteem Spirituality, and Success
Workshop: Developing your inner potential through spirituality and self-esteem
The Michelangelo Weight Management SeminarT.
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