Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

I wrote my eulogy about 10 years ago.

What did that do for you when you did it?

It gave me incredible clarity about what my life needs to become.

Writing my eulogy told me what direction my life needed to go. I edit it pretty frequently.

In 10 years I've realized how much a human being can do. They were small visions 10 years ago and now they are not small

visions. Why do you think it's important to read it frequently? There's two

reasons. One is, as I said early, it directs your life. Two, and this is an even bigger reason, it reminds you that you're going to die.

There's something unbelievably sobering

about recognizing the fact that your story is going to end, you're going to leave the planet,

and you're not coming back.

My development team, I've asked them, do you think on the Ulyssa page you can actually

have a countdown timer based on the average life expectancy of the country that you live in that's crazy? Yeah, I think you know how much time I've got left? You said 30 years right? two Lucy's. Lucy was my chocolate lab.

Oh, man.

And she lived to be 14 years old.

My wife called her my first wife because Lucy and I were married before Betsy and I were married,

and we put her down two Saturdays ago.

Oh man and it was absolutely heartbreaking. She got me to Betsy and then she got Betsy and I too

analyze. Oh man and she had a you know big tumor, terrible arthritis and finally the vet said

look you know you're hitting that point where you're actually punishing her to keep her alive

any longer. So we I made the right decision.

So when I think about, when I brought Lucy home to when we said goodbye to Lucy,

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