Life Don't Miss It

Gary Kunath describes life as a jar of marbles. Each marble represents a Saturday for example- 52 in a year. As each Saturday passes take one out of the jar, and you see the marbles dwindling. When you see the tangibility of that, you realize the importance of time. He stresses the importance of not wasting your time. Finding what you love to do is hard, but you can never find it if you are not looking or let opportunities pass by.

When people get consumed with net-worth, they lose the value in life. No one realizes that people’s emphasis on net-worth is because they care about “life worth”. Just because you have net-worth, that doesn’t make you happy. You have to prioritize between life or money. Gary writes, “I sacrificed time with my family with the justification that I was providing necessary material things, but at a certain point you realize that money doesn’t make you rich, it just allows you to buy more stuff.” Net-worth cycle is a difficult thing to break, it is a vicious cycle that you convince yourself you’re doing temporarily until you “make it” or reach a goal. Life worth is having enough.

Everyone ultimately wants the same things out of life: to be happy, have fun, be proud of who they are and the legacy they will leave behind. Everyone wants life worth, but doesn’t know how to achieve it. Gary gives these five tips to those finding a path to life worth: look for signs you’re falling into the net-worth trap, be employable and not an employee, bad things happen to good people, believe in something bigger than you, and don’t major in the minors. Don’t be losing relationships with family or close friends because you are consumed with money and working yourself until you’re sick. Being an employee, you are putting your professional career into someone else’s hands. You can empower yourself by diversifying your skills so that you can have more choices about where and for whom to work. Adversity