Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: The Last Time

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: The Last Time:                                                                         “You don’t beat the reaper by living longer, you beat the reaper by ...

The Last Time

                                                         

“You don’t beat the reaper by living longer, you beat

the reaper by living well and living fully.”

                                        R a n d y Pau s c h

What if you lived your life like this morning was the last

time you woke up? What if today was the last time you saw

a sunrise, heard the rain fall, admired the moon and stars in the

sky, listened to the birds, walked in the woods, sat in traffic, kissed

your spouse, or had dinner with your family? Imagine looking at

everyday life like that, like it was the last day, the last time. Make

no mistake, someday (hopefully a long way off) it will be the last

time. You have an expiration date, you just do not know when. Life

will go on without you. Everything is transient. But while you are

here, you should live life fully. I don’t mean going sky diving or cliff

jumping. I mean finding joy and beauty in ordinary everyday things.

Appreciating what you have. Be grateful. By thinking “this might

be the last time,” you shine a new light on the way you see things.

This change in perspective allows you to fully embrace life-no longer

taking things for granted.

You can get your copy of Perfect Drift here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTN8VB51

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: YOU ARE ONLY HERE FOR A LITTLE WHILE

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: YOU ARE ONLY HERE FOR A LITTLE WHILE:                                                               “You are only here for a little while, and your bodies belong to yourself and ...

YOU ARE ONLY HERE FOR A LITTLE WHILE

                                                 

“You are only here for a little while, and your

bodies belong to yourself and no one else.”

                        P e n n J i l l e t t e

You could die of brain cancer.

Your boat could capsize, and you drown.

You could get run over by a truck.

Fast death or slow death you are going to die. In the grand scheme

of things, you are only here for a little while. Everything is

temporary. Someone else will be living in your house. Your car will

be crushed for scrap metal. Your bodies placed in the ground or

cremated. What carries on is the lives you have touched while you

are here. Your kids, grandkids, complete strangers you will never

meet, that random person that was put on your path today that

you decided to hit pause and help. The ripple effect. You help this

person who helps that person and so on down the line. Be wary of

the negative ripple effect. You harm this person who goes on to harm

that person. You are only here for a little while so you should strive

to help improve the lives of everyone you meet.

You can get your copy of Perfect Drift here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTN8VB51

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: NINE LIVES

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: NINE LIVES:                                                                    “Your second life begins when you realize you only have one.”            ...

NINE LIVES

                                                     

“Your second life begins when you realize you only have one.”

                                    R a p h a e l l e G i o r d a n o

They say cats have nine lives. But what about you? How many do

you have? I am sure you can think of more than one time you

narrowly cheated death. I know I can think of a few; falling part way

off a cliff; nearly drowning in a pool at the feet of a lifeguard not

paying attention, rolling an SUV, flipping a boat in a raging, freezing

river, a tractor trailer coming the wrong way on the Pennsylvania

Turnpike, getting sucked under in a river in some kind of whirlpool.

No doubt you can think of many of your own narrow misses barely

escaping disaster. Then you hear about stories of someone sitting in

their living room watching TV and a runaway car plows through

their house killing them as they sit on their couch, or lightning

strikes a tree falling on a child’s bedroom. Why? Think about that

for a while. Really stop and ponder on it. Come up with your own

answer for you.

You can get your copy of Perfect Drift here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTN8VB51

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: A Million Dollars

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: A Million Dollars:                                                                              What if when you were born, you came out of the womb with a pot...

A Million Dollars

                                                             

What if when you were born, you came out of the womb with a

pot of gold worth a million dollars. Each year some of those

gold coins, worth $12,500, will be taken away from you. After 80

years your gold would be gone and you would have $0, you would

be dead. Make no mistake, you will die someday. Some of us sooner

or later than others, but are you doing things that may hasten your

demise, having more of your million dollars taken away year after

year? Are you enhancing your million dollars with less taken away

from you each year, lengthening your longevity? When you are

“young” and still have $500, $600- or $700 thousand-dollars’ worth

of shiny gold coins left in your “pot,” in other words, bodies. Getting

to zero may seem like a long way off, but when you get down to $100-

$200 thousand you start to realize how little you have left, like that

last lick of ice cream at the end of summer vacation when you were

a kid. You may start scrimping too late. The point is you should start

scrimping, preserving and enhancing what you have now. Would

you rather have $12,500 taken from you or $7,500? You would be

upset if instead of handing over $12,500 this year you would have

to hand over $25,000. Yet, that is what you constantly do when you

are not exercising, eating poorly, drinking too much to excess, not

sleeping enough or well. Frittering away time working at a job you do

not like. Wallowing in misery. Going through the motions in a rut.

You willingly hand over more of your money until you wake up one day 

and say, “holy crap, I don’t have much left.” What if you started

preserving and enhancing now? You may not be able to control the

fact that you will die someday, it is inevitable, but you can control

the journey and what you do with the “money,” i.e. bodies and time

you have been given, or been allowed to use while you are here. Not

only should you strive to keep what you have for as long as you can,

but you need to keep it shiny too. You must work at it. Exercise. Eat

well. Sleep. You cannot keep your million-dollar pot of gold forever,

it will be taken from you, but you need not give it away voluntarily

sooner than you must, or tarnish it, you can keep it shiny and strive

to hang on to it as long as you can.

You can get your copy of Perfect Drift here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTN8VB51

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: Bloom

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: Bloom:                                                                         “Whatever seed you are, bloom.”                               At t i...

Bloom

                                                         

“Whatever seed you are, bloom.”

                        At t i c u s

“Sometimes when you are in a dark place,

you think you have been buried, but actually

you have been planted.”

                        C h r i s t i n e C a i n e

“Bloom where you are planted.”

                        Ly n M c C a r t n e y

Why waste precious time trying to be someone you are not, or

being someone, you may think the outside world wants you

to be? You are not defined by who other people think you are or what

the outside world thinks you should be. There is no one else like

you. You are not a uniform part made for a uniform system despite

constant outside pressures to mold you into replacement parts in

a cookie-cutter world. You are quite unique and that is quite good

enough. You have your own individual talents and skills. You bring

your own personal attributes to the table each time you show up. Let

them shine. You must water your own seed and blossom into what

you truly are and must be. Find your own path. Stand up, endure the

rain, and face the sun. Groom. Cultivate. Bloom. Grow. Blossom.

You can get your copy of Perfect Drift here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTN8VB51