Last, Golden Words from Steve Jobs

 I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hari Krishna temple.

I was lucky, I found what I love to do early in life was and I started apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard and in 10 years apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a 2 billion Doller company with our 4,000 employees.

We just released our finest creation, Macintosh a year earlier and I just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. but then our vision of the future began diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors' sides with him. So, at 30, I was out and very publicly out.

What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn’t know to do for few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneur down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I was very public failure, I even thought about running away from valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me…, I still loved what I did…

The turn of events at apple had not change that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so, I decided to start over. I didn’t see it then, but turned out that getting fired from apple was the best thing that could have ever happen to me.

The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. It was awful tasting medicine, but you guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I am convincing that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You have got to find what you love. And that is the truth for your work as it is for your lovers.

Your work is going to fill the large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work and the only way to do great work is the love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you will know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So, keep looking, don’t settle.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “if you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “if today were the last day of my life, would I want to do, what I am about to do today?” and whenever the answer has been “NO” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important too I ‘have ever encountered to help me to make the bog choices in life. Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death. Leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination. We all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you…

But someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of the other opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary…

Blog by Ajit Singh Co-founder, CEO at AB Developers. www.abdevelopers.net

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