I'm going to die.

Not now and hopefully much later but I'm going to die regardless. I read once that we should live each day as if it were our last; that we should do what we love and know in our hearts that there will be no regrets at the end.

That is what I am now doing. It is my ambition and goal to improve myself with each and every moment that brings me ever closer to the inevitability of death. I pledge to not procrastinate, to be honest with myself, and move onward and upward.

I had a manager once who liked to repeat the phrase, "Too soon old and too late smart." I hated that. Now it frightens me. When I was young I never imagined myself as old as my manager was then. He seemed almost ancient. Now that I'm almost as old now as he was then, I realize its' truth and significance. I've got so much to learn.

I may only have today to learn it.

You know what? I'm excited about that. I'm going to learn today because that's what I love to do. I'm going to improve TODAY, because that's what I'm going to do. I've decided and I'm taking action.