How to Live Your Life

This has been a very turbulent month for our country, to say the least. Instead of a business newsletter, we felt that sharing the following message would be much more appropriate:

"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, and beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and of service to your people.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the food and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and nothing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home."

-Chief Tecumseh, Shawnee Nation (1811)

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Nate Sachs is the founder and owner of Blueprints For Tomorrow®, a nationally recognized financial services firm specializing in contingency, succession, exit, transition, and key employee retention planning. The author of two books, a credentialed national speaker, and an advisor to more than two thousand business owners, Nate's overall goal is to help business owners work on their business instead of in their business.