This is a book worth reading.  Our busy schedules and obsession with the economic downturn squeezes out reflective time we should take.  Randy Pausch was diagnosed with incurable cancer and set out to leave a legacy for his children.  He used the idea of “The Last Lecture” to portray his vision of happiness and fulfillment while alive.  I often use Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs to explain and understand human behavior and motives in the workplace, and this book demonstrates how those needs surface throughout and at the end of life.  Over a half million people die every year of cancer and many diagnosed with the disease right now are figuring out how they want to spend their finite days.  Our finite days become richer and fuller when we know they are fewer.   We put the real priorities ahead of the trivial troubles.  Moral of this story for me is to live each day as though it is my last.  If we don’t think we’ll be around to ask for forgiveness — then let’s not do the thing that requires forgiveness in the first place.   Thanks for reminding me, Randy.    

Yesterday is history

Tomorrow is a mystery

Today is a gift

That’s why it’s called the present.