Steve Jobs Inspiration
October 27, 2005
My cousin, Robert Coyle of Bloom contacted me today to tell me how they'd won Silver at the NNI's Press Builds Brands competition. Well done to Bloom, but what transpired from the congratulatory email is this :
Steve Jobs Magic!!
Robert sent this to me, and I thank him for it. If you don't read anything else today, find 5 minutes to read this. God the man is a poet, a philospher, a genius of our time. (And sorry Robert, I don't mean you, I am referring to Steve Jobs).
Here is a couple of paragraphs that really spoke to me, but really you owe it to yourself to read the article.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Have a happy bank holiday weekend, and if you're going away, drive safely.