I think everyone of us has a different purpose and all the same 'guidelines'.
This below describes what i think pretty good.
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Live a life that matters.......
Ready or not ,someday it will all come to and end
There will be no more sunrises , no minutes. hours or days.
All the things you collected ,whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
Your wealth , fame and temporal power will shiver to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned or where you owed. Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear. So ,too, you hopes ambitions, plans and to-do-lists will expire.
The wins and losses that one seemed so important will fade away.
It wont matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. even your gender and skin colour will be irrelevant.
SO WHAT WILL MATTER?
How will your days be measured?
What will mater is not what you bought but what you BUILT
Not what you GOT but what you GAVE
What will matter is not you SUCCESS but your SIGNIFICANCE
Not what you LEARNT but what you TAUGHT.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched empowered or encourage others to emulate you example.
What will matter is not your competence but you CHARACTER!
What will matter is not how many people you know but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone.
What will matter is not your memories but the memories that live in those who loved you!
what will matter is how long you will be rememberedby whom and for what.
Live a live that matters doesnt happen by accident. It is not a matter of circumstances BUT of choice.
Choose a life that MATTERS.