Some Words from Steve Jobs

I am preparing to transfer my blogging to a new blog I am setting up at The LifeLab site. It's not up yet, but I will link as soon as I get it finished. This is the one year anniversary(ish) of this blog, and it feels like time to devote all of my efforts to my new project, which shall include my blogging entries.

I wanted to share a quote I found in a speech given by Steve Jobs at the Stanford commencement ceremony last month. Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and given only a few months to live, but his cancer turned out to be operable and now he is fine. After "looking into the abyss" (which is what I call the experience that most cancer survivors have encountered when faced with their mortality prematurely), here is what he had to say:

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 other's 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.

In my experience, this sentiment is shared by many survivors, yet often we become a little bit stuck getting to that place. One of the principal goals of my non-profit is to give survivors guidance hearing their inner voice, following it, and creating that "dream" life. Just in case you were wondering what I've been doing the past year or so. :)

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