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I figured maybe if I just ignored it, it wouldn't be real. Maybe if I just detached a bit, I could let this storm pass me by. Every day a little more sand passes through the hour glass.
My mentor has just a few more months to live. Think about that. Maybe 60 days. Maybe more, maybe less. Game over.
People come and go in life, seemingly in chapters. This chapter with him has been the past two decades.
And, as much as he would kick my a$$ for any mushy sentiments beyond the sentiments I shared with him this morning, I am going to encapsulate for you a short list of the things he taught me that will continue to stay with me when he is gone.
1. Sometimes it's not about profit
2. There's a handful of people in your life worth protecting. Protect them.
3. Work hard. Expect more.
4. Count the pennies, as the pennies add up into real money.
5. Live generously
6. Build
7. Cut costs
8. Cut costs again
9. Family
10. Make shit happen
I watched him work for 2 years without taking a dime's profit personally, so he could put his deceased business partner's children through college. Literally work 60 hours per week to provide for someone else's kids.
Life is short. In a few months, he will be gone. I will have nobody left to call.
I see so many people here working some dead end, shit job that they hate. Spending life as the sand pours through the hour glass. I have personally wasted too many days.
Life has an end date.
He wishes today he had spent more time with his kids and grandkids. He's out of time. The sand has just about run out, and it is already slowed to a trickle for him. And for me, with him.
No more wasting time for me. I am going to measure every day. I am going to leave something that lasts. I am going to spend the rest of my days with people worth protecting, and building things that make a difference.
Please. Measure your days. Make sure when the sand runs out for you, that you have done everything you could do.
Here's to my friend and my mentor. Life is short.
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