I was attending a presentation on Estate Planning for clients the other day and the presenter had a rather interesting little wrist watch called the Tikker (http://mytikker.com). It is essentially a wrist watch that counts down your life. So for example, it might say that you have 44 years, 213 days, 12 hours and 23 minutes left to live (based on average life expectancy of course). While the idea of having a wrist watch to constantly remind you of your impending mortality might be a little too depressing, it probably wouldn’t hurt for most of us to consider the time we have left a little more often.
A good point that Tikker make on their website, is that if we were told we have only 1 year left to live, it would probably change the way we live our lives. The one resource that we have no power or control over is time. The rest of our lives can be shaped to be the way we want them to be, but time will always be limited.
While a wrist watch might be just one step too far for me – It would probably be wise to consider how you wish to use the time you have left, before it’s too late!
