Jimmy McCartney

If you were on your death bed, and could go back to being your current age, how would you live life? Would you play it safe, work some regular job you felt no passion for just for the steady check, then go home and watch TV until you fall asleep to wake up and do it again? Or would you passionately pursue your dreams and passions, make each moment a memory, and fight to create a life of purpose?

There is no perfect and easy pathway that is the correct answer; there are struggles no matter what route you take in life, but Jimmy McCartney argues that when you commit yourself to your purpose and passion, life becomes an adventure, and you can lay in your death bed proud of what you became knowing you soaked all you could out of life. Additionally, wonderful things will come your way that you could never expect as a direct result of becoming the person you were born to be, and living your life as the main character in your own story. There are no guarantees on results or external rewards, but internally you will know your life mattered and you didn’t just survive you truly lived. Would you want to look back from your death bed, and say “I’m glad I played it so safe and lived in my routine?” Or would you want to look back on your life and say “I’m proud of who I am as a person, and I am glad I pursued what my soul felt pulled to do.” If your ancestors could speak with you, what path would they hope you would choose?