( Share your thoughts on this forum thead<\/a> <\/a>)<\/p>\n Jason’s a young guy, and the news was a shocker.<\/p>\n Even now, as he awaits surgery, it’s hard to get the thought out of my mind that we never know what’s going to happen tomorrow. We never know if today is our last day on earth, or if we’ll have thousands more. We don’t know if we’re going to be well or sick this time next week; whether we’ll face an accident, or sudden onset of a terminal disease.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n = = = = =<\/p>\n But as I type the words “awaits surgery”, I wonder what that really means. Consciously, I don’t think Jason’s capable of “awaiting” anything right now; perhaps he doesn’t even know what happened. And when I say that, of course, I’m referring to the Jason that is on earth; the human Jason, the one most of us knew best if we met him once or twice.<\/p>\n So now I turn my focus to the spiritual Jason, his higher self, the true being that he is. Is that Jason awaiting surgery? Is he awaiting many more years of serving others, and brightening lives the way Jason has always done? Or is he awaiting the end?<\/p>\n I’m not expecting Jason to pass over now. He’s full of energy and vigor, and he has too much left to do on this planet.<\/p>\n But again… how do we ever know if it’s our time?<\/p>\n After interviewing hundreds of spiritual teachers, I have formed the belief that we come to this life with a set of challenges we want to overcome. For our higher selves, it’s like a game… and the more challenging the better.<\/p>\n For our human selves, we stress and get angry over the same challenges that make our higher selves smile.<\/p>\n So when we inevitably pass back over, and leave this life… what do our higher selves do? What do they think?<\/p>\n Are they happy to be back in a form where they have access to their full abundant power again? Or do they miss the challenges and intrigue of not knowing the power is there?<\/p>\n Do they say, “Good job, that was a great life”? Or do they look at the virtual “To Do” list we brought with us at birth, and say, “I didn’t accomplish this and this… well, I guess I’ll have to try again.”<\/p>\n I’m not sure if it’s possible to answer those questions until it’s our time to move on… and I’m not sure we want to.<\/p>\n What we can answer is, what can we accomplish while we’re here? What impact can we make in this world? What lives can we influence for the better? What value can we bring to the planet?<\/p>\n If you knew your time was about to end… and that you might be examining your own life-long “To Do” list next week… what would you do differently?<\/p>\n As for Jason, he taught people how to create Money on Demand<\/a>. And he helped people with something to say reach a bigger audience, by turning their books into best-sellers.<\/p>\n He’s best known for co-authoring Conversations With Millionaires<\/em><\/strong>, along with Mike Litman.<\/p>\n I met Jason for the first time when we spoke together at an event a few months ago; but as is common in this industry, we “knew” each other before that — first we had heard about each other, and what the other was doing, and then we started talking by email.<\/p>\n Shortly after that, I interviewed him about creating Money on Demand, and that interview is part of the “Heather’s Conversations” section in the Manifest Life Multi-Media Portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n In fact, one member told us it was the best interview he had ever heard.<\/p>\n As a special gift to you, in honor of Jason and his family, please listen to it as our guest:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"Jason](\"http:\/\/successunwrapped.com\/members\/images\/joman.jpg\" "\\"Jason")
Ironically (or “coincidentally”… even though there’s no such thing as a coincidence, and perhaps no such thing as irony) as he was posting that article, we heard the news that our friend and colleague, Jason Oman, had suffered a brain aneurysm and was lying unconscious in the hospital.<\/p>\n