Life Approach: What does your life say?

“Imagine a funeral. The preacher is making the eulogy. And suddenly, the ‘guest of honor’ appears from the coffin!

It really happened. Talayi George Sogcwe from South Africa decided to fake his death as evidence.

“I wanted to know what people say about me when I’m dead,” he said. “I am satisfied that they told the truth about me and not lies.”

George says he will keep the coffin for his royal funeral … which may be held sooner than you think, if he keeps doing stunts like this! “(Quoted from” Strange World “, Campus Life, Vol. 56, no. 4.)

That is certainly one way to find out what people will say about you when you have left this life! I guess the question is, “How desperate are you to find out?”

As kinky as it is, this is a great Life Coaching question! Not whether or not you are willing to fake your own death to find out what people think of you, but what do you want said about you at your funeral?

To ask yourself that question is to explore what you want your life to represent. It’s rising right now, today, to float up, up, up and take a look at the BIG PICTURE of your timeline. So these are the questions to consider:

1. What do you want your immediate family to say about you at your funeral?

2. What do you want your extended family (yes, including in-laws) to say about you?

3. What do you want your friends to say about you?

Don’t go off on the wrong tangent here. This does not mean that we become nice to people; This is a picture of what you would like your life to mean in the end. Thinking about these things allows you to consider how you are prioritizing what you value.

For instance:

Is television more important than listening to that 10-year-old talker?

Is “getting ahead” more vital than building honest relationships based on integrity?

Is living a “safe life” more valuable than following your dreams?

Hope you are tuning in for a clearer picture of where you want to be and where you are. Hence the following question:

4. How are you doing at this point on your journey? If you continue with things as they are today, will people say what you want to hear?

5. Observe the qualities that you would really like to have. It’s not too late. You’re still alive! So what little step could you take tomorrow to begin that journey of “becoming”?

It is a great privilege for me to help people begin to seek the answers to these questions and guide them towards the image they form of who they want to be and where they want to go. It is a lot like a coach working alongside an athlete and encouraging them to go to the finish line. Decide today what that finish line will be like!

And I don’t know about you, but now I’m going to approach those open coffins with a little more caution!