172,800 people didn’t wake up today.

If you’re reading this, congratulations, you’ve already won.

I was in my local coffee shop, chatting with a group of ladies in their 70s and 80s.

I asked one of them,
“What have you learned that you’d share with me?”

She told me about her sister.
“They were inseparable 11 months apart, spoke every day.
One night, her sister went to bed… and never woke up.”

Then she looked at me and said:
“That’s why I line dance. Life is short. 
Do something that fulfils you.”

It struck me.
If you’re reading this, congratulations you’ve already won. You woke up.

172,800 people die every single day worldwide. Many in their sleep.

But not you. 

You’ve been given another chance.

So today don’t stress about what you can’t control.
Focus on how you respond.
That’s your power.

Tomorrow isn’t promised.
But today? 

Today is a gift.