5 Things To Do Before You Die | Robin Sharma

5 Things To Do Before You Die

                       by Robin Sharma

This is taken from mastery session by Robin Sharma this is about the five things to do before you die according to Robin Sharma ("The Leader Who Had No Title" , "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" etc. )

1. Swim with the dolphins in Mauritius :

I don't know if you've ever been to Mauritius but it's this little island, this little nation a few hours off the coast South Africa and a number of years ago I was blessed as I was down there giving a presentation and one of the opportunities I had was to swim with the dolphins and I think it's in the Indian Ocean and was one of the unforgettable moments of my life I guess.

What I am really suggesting to you is this before you die remember adventure is incredibly important, yes you've got to work yes you've got obligations yes

we all have bills to pay but what's the point about getting to the end without  having swim with the Dolphins without having injected adventure into your life without maybe having heli ski in New Zealand or maybe seeing the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City so the first point really is this :  Inject Adventure Into Your Day

2.  Dance barefoot in a park after a rainstorm : 

What's that all about well that's really about savoring. You might have heard me talk about this before but a lot of the latest positive psychology says what if the core daily habits of the happiest people is they savor they don't JUST drink great Columbian coffee they savor it, they don't just have a conversation with a loved one they look in their eyes they listen they take in. they don't just walk in the woods thinking about their work projects they savor the mossy smell they savor the colors on the trees if it's autumn time so the second thing is dance barefoot in a park after a rainstorm but what I'm really getting at is savor the gorgeousness of every single day life. I mean single day is breathtaking miracle to the one who has the eyes to witness them.

3. Read the Heroic Books :

One of the great things that my father shared with me you know he filled our home with so many great books the complete works of Shakespeare though the writings of Mahatma  Gandhi like his autobiography "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" . The third thing is, you want to read the great books of wisdom, you do want to read the complete works of Shakespeare and figure out what happened to Macbeth what happened to Hamlet what were those Achilles heels that caused them to rise to epic success and then basically collapse you want to read Khalil Gibran's "The Prophet" you want to read Nelson Mandela's autobiography to read the words the works of the icon to have graced business productivity. You know what great about heroic books is that they allow you to get behind their eyeballs and then you'll learn how they dealt with difficulty how they handled self-doubt how they rebounded and leveraged heartbreak how they enjoyed their times at the top of the mountain how they dealt with the their times in the valley of darkness I mean that is the human journey and one of the great values of learning is you can collapse time you can distill what took an icon 50 years before they wrote their book and you read 50 years of how they lived and you get that in one book.

4. Know Yourself

I think was Plato or Aristotle but you know. I read it at a temple and it was some kind of sign which said : "know thyself" what I'm getting at probably not very elegantly but the philosophers have really reminded us which is : the life unexamined is not worth living. so yes be in the world but don't be of the world as the great truth says yes make the time to be productive in your work and get a lot of great projects done so that you release your potential and you help a lot of people through your value delivery but at the same time make the time for the season of wilderness you know make some time for solitude in a world that no longer value solitude get to know yourself Who am I what are my core values what  I learned from my painful times where am I going in the future how do I want to be remembered by my loved ones at my funeral , when I'm no longer here. 

5. Help as many People as Possible 

You know I think one of the greatest joys of life is not accumulating but it's in donating and I'm not just saying donating money but that's fine you know philanthropy you know is is awesome but use the rest of your days to lift people up I mean that's really what leadership is, and being an icon in my mind and being a world-class human being is all about  it's less ego more service less about me more about other people less about scarcity like a timid soul taking from the world taking from other people taking their energy taking their time taking their attention and being someone who's a giver you know generous be generous whether you're listening to everyone you meet today you know how many people you ask them a few questions and it's like talk talk talk why they haven't been you can give them a gift by listening to them your customer be generous with your time with your information with your helpfulness a stranger on the street at the grocery store maybe just walking

along the street be generous with your smile I know you might say robbing that sounds very idealistic you know how powerful that is in a world where people are under so much anxiety so much frustration so much fear is the emotion look at them model humanity for them today by smiling by looking at them in the eye but maybe saying something nice to them if you have the opportunity what an amazing day what an amazing shawl or some kind of a compliment so the final thing you want to do before you die is every single day find at least three people you can uplift you do that for ten years work it out how many people do influence you do that for the next 100 years of the rest of your life you become a world builder and that's my great wish for you.