My Me-Eulogy

Pronounced "meelogy"

I have been spending a great deal of brain power exploring my personal ideas of motivation. What truly is keeping my going. What drives me. Where does my self discipline come from and where should it come from.

Everyone is going to have different answers and everyone’s answers will change over time and be impacted with life experiences.

I do have some very specific techniques that I have incorporated. The one I want to talk about today is my Me-Eulogy.

3 or 4 years ago, I did the exercise of writing your own eulogy. I sat down and spend a couple of days thinking about this. What did I want people to say about me? How did I want to be remembered. This is a great exercise and I highly recommend it to everyone.

Move forward a couple of years, I looked back on my eulogy and had a thought that some of what was driving my forward came from my Eulogy and what I wanted everyone else to think about me. I was doing things for everyone else, not me.

I decided to re-think the excercise. I sat down, took a couple of days and redid the experience. This time though, I envisioned Me in the casket, Me delivering the eulogy, and Me as the only one in the audience. I call this my Me-Eulogy.

You know what? The things I wrote down were different than my Eulogy. This truly got me thinking about my very personal virtues, personal values, and really hit home as to who I truly wanted to be. It was not about a list of things I accomplished. It was not about how I wanted to be documented and remembered in the worldly side of life.

It truly came down to the guy starting back at my in the mirror. Who is that guy and who do I want him to be.