喬布斯：把每一天當成生命中最後一天，你就會輕鬆自在
For the past 33 years,i’ve looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself,If today were the last day of my life,what i wanna do ,what i am about to do today,and whenever the answer has been “No” far too many days in a row,i know i need to change something.Remembering that i’ll be dead soon is the most important tool i’ve everencountered to help me make the big choices in life,Because almosteverything all external expectations,allpride ,all fear of embarrassement of failure,these things just fall away in the face of death,leaving only what is truly important.Remembering that you are going to die,is the best way i know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose,you are already naked.There is no reason not to follow you heart.About a year ago,i was diagnosed with cancer,i had a scan at 7:30 in the morning ,and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas,i didn’t even know what a pancreas was,the doctors told me this was almost cetainly a type of cance that is incurable and i should expect to live no longer than three to six months,my doctors adviced me to go home and get my affairs in order which is the doctor’s code for preparing to die. It means to try and tell your kids everything,you thought you had the next ten years to rell them in just few months,it means to make sure everything is buttoned up,so that it would be as easy as possible for your family,it means to say your goodbye…
在過去的33年中，我每天早晨都對着鏡子問自己，如果今天是我人生中的最後一天，今天我要幹些什麼，我將要做什麼，每當我連續好幾天都回答說“沒事做”的時候，我明白我必須要作出改變了。提醒自己快要離開這個世界，每每能夠在最關鍵的時候幫我作出人生的重大決定。因爲在這樣的時候，幾乎所有的一切，所有的外界期望、個人名譽以及對失敗和困窘的恐懼，這些在死亡面前只會悄然退散，留下來的都是真正對你重要的東西，記住你將要死去，能以最簡單明瞭的方式，告訴你你不能失去某些東西，因爲“人死鳥朝天，不死萬萬年”，沒什麼道理不順心而爲。大概一年之前，我被診斷出癌症，我在7:30分做了斷層掃描，很明顯我的胰臟上有個腫瘤，我曾經甚至不知道胰臟爲何物，醫生告訴我，這基本上時一種無法治癒的癌症，我大概只能活三到六個月，我的醫生建議我回家去準備我的後事，這是醫生對臨終病人的標準建議，這就是說，你本來計劃用未來十年跟你的孩子們講的話，你要在幾個月內講完，這就是說，你得把身後的事情做好安排，讓你的家人儘量輕鬆，這就是說，你就要告別人世了。