WHO WILL CRY

WHEN YOU DIE?

ROBIN S SHARMA
LIFE LESSONS FROM
THE MONK WHO SOLD HIS FERARI
About book
Book name: who will cry when you die?
Author: Robin S Sharma
Publisher: Jaico Publishing Home
Year published : 2003
No. of Pages: 225
Price : 150/-
ISBN 81-7992-232-4
Subject: Personality Development

About Author
Robin S. Sharma LL.B., LL.M.,
An authority on leadership, peak performance, life management, personal mastery
Electrifying and thought provoking professional speaker
Other works :
Introduction

In ‘Who Will Cry When You Die?’ the author shares 101 short inspirational
messages.
I’m not listing all but the ones that resonated with me, in hope that you’d like them
as well. Also, you can read the book and discover what you like. It’s a short-read
one day read anyway.

So let’s begin….
Inspiration 1
Your life is worth writing about. Start maintaining a journal. Record your thoughts,
reactions, emotions, events that happen during the day, your ideas etc.

You discover yourself when you write about your life and later reflect on what you
wrote and how you behaved. Only when you become aware of your reactions, you
can change them.

Inspiration 2
Learn to honor your words and promises given to yourself and others. Don’t take
your words lightly. For example, if you don’t want to call someone, don’t say that
you will. You never know the person might waste their time waiting for the call,
you have no intention of making from the moment you said you would.

When you don’t honor your words, it reflects poorly on you. Do that often and
people will stop trusting your words. Be conscious of what you say.

Inspiration 3
Sometimes we make mistakes in life that we keep thinking about and torturing
yourself with thoughts like ‘what if?’
If you’re going to invest your precious time pondering your past mistakes, then
isn’t it a good idea to get some lessons from them? So you will not repeat those
same mistakes again.

Take time to sort out your emotions/feelings about the past events and mistakes
you made. Reflect on what you did wrong, learn from them and most important,
learn to move on armed with new knowledge.

Inspiration 4
Learn to say ‘No’ to the people and the tasks that are not worthy of your time and
attention.

Time is a precious and limited commodity. Once you lose it, you can never have it
back. So give your time and attention to those people and tasks that matters to you
the most. Don’t waste your time on everybody and everything.

Inspiration 5
Work towards achieving your goal. But don’t allow the work to consume you, to
an extent that you have no time left for you. Work is not life, it’s part of life.

So don’t get obsessed with work and turn into a workaholic. To refresh your
senses, take a day off or a few hours away from your work, worries and electronic
devices etc.
Inspiration 6
Keep a small amount of time from your schedule just for whatever that worries
you. Analyze your worries. Then think what you can do to erase some of them.
Find out how many are just empty fears that might never happen and how many
you can do nothing about.

Inspiration 7
Learn to meditate and be silent. Spending time in silence with yourself is important
and useful. It’s not important to talk all the time.

The time you will spend with yourself will allow you to see what’s important to
you. It also helps you figure out who are and if something needs to change.
Inspiration 8
Keep a book with you always. I love this one. I always have some or other book
with me. Actually, thanks to Kindle I have more than one book with me.
Inspiration 9
Don’t multitask because no matter what anyone says, multitasking is not a skill.
Focus your time, energy and attention on a project that matters the most, one at a
time.

Lastly, don’t wait for the perfect time to become who you are or what you want to
do in your life. There’s no such thing as ‘perfect time.’ Start now!
CONCLUSION
I finally understood what ‘Who Will Cry When You Die’ is all about.
“Greatness comes from beginning something that doesn’t end with you.” ~~ Robin
Sharma
if you will ask me to imagine my funeral, then I’m not getting it because I’m not
going to imagine any such thing.

The whole ‘imagining funeral thing’ seem to say something like be aware of what
others would think about you after your death. Like most people don’t waste most
of their time doing just that when they’re alive.

As I see it, do what you want to do because just because you became someone
noteworthy it wouldn’t stop people from talking bad about you after your death.

I like the author’s style of simplifying all the philosophies. You don’t have to think
much about the meaning of his messages. “Who Will Cry When You Die’ is an
inspirational and a good read. Also, there are many amazing quotes in the book for
you if you love collecting quotes.