What Are You Holding Back From?

I want to break away from the typical money topics today and share with you the lyrics to one of my favorite songs of all time, Tim McGraw’s Live Like You Were Dying.

If you’re not a fan of Country, it’s likely that you’ve never heard this tune before. I encourage you to have a listen:

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He said: “I was in my early forties,
With a lot of life before me,
And a moment came that stopped me on a dime.
I spent most of the next days,
Looking at the x-rays,
And talking ’bout the options and talkin’ ‘bout sweet time.
I asked him when it sank in,
That this might really be the real end?
How’s it hit you when you get that kind of news?
Man whatd’ya do?

I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
And I gave forgiveness I’d been denying.
And he said: “Some day, I hope you get the chance,
To live like you were dying.”

He said “I was finally the husband,
That most the time I wasn’t.
And I became a friend a friend would like to have.
And all of a sudden goin’ fishin’,
Wasn’t such an imposition,
And I went three times that year I lost my Dad.
Well, I finally read the Good Book,
And I took a good long hard look,
At what I’d do if I could do it all again,
And then:

(Chorus)

Like tomorrow was a gift,
And you got eternity,
To think about what you’d do with it.
An’ what did you do with it?
An’ what can I do with it?
An’ what would I do with it?

(Chorus)

This week, think about these questions:

• What frivolous things are you spending your money on?
• Are you funding the things you love in life?
• Do you know where your financial heart is? Are you doing something about it?