Do as the Romans do?

You’re in Rome on a hot summer day. On today’s schedule, you have to tour the Colosseum. Then you have to learn to make pizza at the world’s best pizza restaurant. Then you need to go to the Vatican and visit the Sistine Chapel. After you’ll taste fantastic gelato and espresso. Finally you finish off your day with a whirlwind party into the late hours of the morning.

Too much?

What if it were your last day in Rome, ever?

Then you’d definitely squeeze in seeing the most essential sites. You just have to do everything possible because you won’t be back.

Now contrast that intense feeling of urgency, to how you live every normal day. For example: you put off learning to cook. You put off starting the business until the perfect conditions align. You put off traveling the world because it’s not the right time.

Why?

Because you assume that you have too much time. That at some point in the future, you’ll get to do everything. That everyday will remain exactly the same as yesterday.

What if you lived each day, knowing that it was your last? And what if instead of the typical YOLO style, you spend your time doing activities that deeply matter to you? You get to make the change that you’ve always wanted to happen.

How you feel then? Fulfilled? At peace? Grateful?

The reality is: You have a lot of time. But you squander the time that you have. Time is counting down, daily. Better take advantage of the time you have, so that you have no regrets.

Do as the Romans do. Live each day like it’s your last. Make the change happen.