Who will cry when you die?

Yesterday i've completed reading a book called "Who will cry when you die? " by Robin Sharma.By the name it sounds cynical, but contrary to that, this book shares authors opinion on how to lead a purposeful life and discuss various life or personality improvement techniques.

Few points I would like to highlight from this book are:

1. The more you ask, the more you get
2. When you wake up, spend few minutes planning the day how happy and achieving you can make it
3. One is compensated for the amount of value he/she adds to the world, not by amount of hard work they put in
4. If you don't act on life, life will act on you
5. Say to your self- " If it's going to be, it's up to me"
6. Try the technique  " act like that which you most wish to become"
7. Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think
8. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not date that they are difficult
9. Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. People grow old only by deserting their ideals and by outgrowing  the consciousness of youth. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.... You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young.Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young - L.F.Phelan
10. Be an Adventurer
11. When you love your job, you discover you will never have to work another day in your life
12. You cannot pursue success, success ensues.
13. Happiness is not a place you reach but a state you create
14. The purpose of life is a life of purpose

Over all, this book is a good source of inspiration with lot of quotations and is worth reading.

Finally I would like to end this review with the summary on the art of living by novelist James Michener as quoted by author

   "The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his life and his religion. He hardly knows which is which He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both. "

Yours,

Vish