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Article Title: The Day They Told Steve Jobs He'd Die - In 90
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During the commencement address for Stanford University's
graduates in June, 2005, Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer
(co-founder of Pixar animation studios e.g. Finding Nemo,
Cars), and inventor of the wildly popular iPod, confided
something the audience had never heard. Here's how that
started...

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool
I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Because almost everything � all external expectations, all
pride, all fear of embarrassment or 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 your 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 certainly a type of cancer that is
incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than
three to six months.

My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order,
which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to
tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10
years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure
everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as
possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a
biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my
stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas
and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife,
who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a
microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to
be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with
surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its
the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through
it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than
when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

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."

About The Author: Kim Klaver is Harvard & Stanford educated.
Her 20 years experience in network marketing have resulted in a
popular blog, http://KimKlaverBlogs.com, a podcast,
http://YourGreatThing.com and a giant resource site,
http://BananaMarketing.com which features hundreds of stories,
tips, books and CD programs for those who want to learn the art
of network marketing.

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