<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" title="Robin Sharma - motivational speaker and author" src="http://getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/robin-sharma-06.jpg" alt="Robin Sharma - motivational speaker &amp; author" />&#8220;Focus your time and your life on your highest talents and dreams.&#8221;</p>
<p>I turned 40 a while ago and I am spending a lot of time reading obituaries. I get rejuvenated when I look at people&#8217;s obituaries and the lives they&#8217;ve lived. The differences that people have made inspire me.</p>
<p>As we reach the half-time point of life a lot of us begin to reflect on whether or not we are living the lives we want to live. We ask ourselves, &#8220;How can I make a difference?&#8221; We ask ourselves this important question because the biggest regret of all is to reach the end of our lives only to realize that we walked the planet in vain. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2012/05/know-where-you-are-going-by-robin-sharma/" title="Permanent Link: Know Where You Are Going by Robin Sharma" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1085,"date":"2012-05-19T12:13:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2017-01-29T16:36:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T21:36:05","slug":"know-where-you-are-going-by-robin-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/05\/know-where-you-are-going-by-robin-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Where You Are Going by Robin Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Robin Sharma - motivational speaker and author\" src=\"http:\/\/getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/robin-sharma-06.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Sharma - motivational speaker &amp; author\" \/>&#8220;Focus your time and your life on your highest talents and dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I turned 40 a while ago and I am spending a lot of time reading obituaries. I get rejuvenated when I look at people&#8217;s obituaries and the lives they&#8217;ve lived. The differences that people have made inspire me.<\/p>\n<p>As we reach the half-time point of life a lot of us begin to reflect on whether or not we are living the lives we want to live. We ask ourselves, &#8220;How can I make a difference?&#8221; We ask ourselves this important question because the biggest regret of all is to reach the end of our lives only to realize that we walked the planet in vain. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/05\/know-where-you-are-going-by-robin-sharma\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Know Where You Are Going by Robin Sharma\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As amazing as it sounds not everyone has a plan for what it will take to achieve what they want in life. 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