When you're dying, you really pay attention to your family, to the trees, to the smell of a hot cup of coffee. ... I drank coffee every morning of my life and never enjoyed the smell as much as I do now. When you face death, you realize you could have been paying attention to all these things and millions more like them every day if you had only put your mind to it. If you want a definition of success, mine is short and sweet: Wake up and smell the coffee.
From the book 'Toxic Success', by Dr. Paul Pearsall in which Dr Pearsall quotes a woman with cancer who was reflecting on what she had learned.
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