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A New Decade Is About To Open

To those of you who celebrate it, I hope you had a very Merry Christmas.

I think it’s common for many of us to spend this next week, as we pass into a new year, taking stock of our lives and what we’re choosing to do with them. Perhaps since we’re starting a new decade, this is even more timely. I hope my site, and today’s post, gives you a boost if you’re thinking about those kinds of topics.

“Everyone Dies. Not Everyone Truly Lives.”

On my birthday in the summer of 2008, Randy Pausch died of pancreatic cancer.

When I heard, I felt guilty. This man, my own age, had lived his life with joy and gusto, full on. I certainly wasn’t doing that, at that time, and it seemed a shame to see him deprived of time he could have spent with his wife and kids and students and friends, while I clung to a life I wasn’t sure I wanted any more.

Randy Pausch became famous worldwide, in the last year of his life, for his final lecture at Carnegie Mellon University, entitled “The Last Lecture, Really Living Your Childhood Dreams“.

The talk was part of an ongoing series of lectures where academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then address “what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?”

Usually this is a hypothetical exercise, but for Randy Pausch, it was simply reality.

This makes his Last Lecture a poignant demonstration of courage, joy and love. If you’ve never seen the lecture, find an hour for it soon. You deserve it. Make sure you have tissues.

Diane Sawyer from ABC did several follow-up interviews up until a few months before Randy Pausch’s death, entitled “The Last Lecture, A Love Story For Your Life“, which are also good stuff.

The Choices You Take Action On = Your Life

I’m making this my Christmas post because when I created this site a couple of weeks ago, I was determined to publish every piece of information you’d need to build a business website for under $10 by Christmas day. I have. It’s all here. There will be lots more, but this is everything you need to get started.

The point is that it’s not too late, and not impossible for you to start chasing your dreams.

If you need a little inspiration, go watch Randy. Or just do it because having more options open in your life is a good thing.

If you have a business, you can shake the dust off and grow it in new ways. If you don’t, yet, a small side business can grow very slowly, and teach you many useful things you might benefit from knowing later. It might even be enough to get you through an economic challenge one day. A second stream of income could cushion your retirement. Or you could build a site to raise funds for a charity you care about, or just to “share the wisdom you’d try to impart to the world, if you knew it was your last chance”.

It’s Worth It For The People You Find Along The Way

The internet is an amazing vehicle which can give you a voice. A chance to reach your “Right People” and find your Tribe. If you have something to say, to share, to teach, to offer… go for it! Everything you need to get started is right here.

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