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If Knowledge is Power Then Forgetting is the Ultimate Weakness

Your life plan in easy steps, daily priorities, weekly, monthly and so on. Long range planning and short term as well

Hope all you dads and future Dads had a great day, great food, great fun and much love on Father's Day.

The following is an except by Rabbi Noach Weinberg, that I felt extremely helpful in my life. My intent is for this to help you as much as it has helped me to create your own life plan.  This article is one I wish I did write.  I love it.  Hope you will too.

“If knowledge is power, then forgetting is the ultimate weakness.

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A crucial part of organizing your mind is to establish priorities. To demonstrate the need to organize your mind, ask questions and see how fast you get answers. For example, ask yourself what lessons you've learned about the three main categories of life:

- Issues between me and myself. What is the purpose of life? What are my goals and dreams? How did I arrive at them? What are my talents? What are my virtues? What do I ultimately want out of life?

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- Issues between me and others. What do I know about relationships with friends, parents, colleagues, and society? What causes me to struggle in relationships? What do others like most about me?

- Issues between me and God. What do I know about truth, kindness, and why this world was created? What are my God-given rights, and what are my obligations?

Now, prioritize these ideas into a set of life plans. You should have a daily plan, weekly plan, monthly plan and yearly plan -- with 5-year goals, 15-year goals, and lifetime goals.

What do you want on your tombstone? Asking this question is very powerful and very painful.”

 In my training for Hospice a few years back we were asked to write our own obituaries. Very interesting assignment.  What made it so interesting is how most of us started and how we finished.  What we realized was what we did wasn’t as important as  who we were. It reminded me of an old email, How did you live your dash? Not how many years you lived, it's how  you lived your dash?  What do you want to be remembered by?  The car you drove, your position in the business world or your contribution to society, your sense of fair play, your sense of humor, your values.  What do you hold important?  It puts life in a different perspective, and it poses the question; in the scheme of things , how important is it?

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