Seriously. Actually sitting down and writing it can be a marvelous exercise in goal-setting. Make it long and detailed.
Your obituary can become your script, telling who you were, what you did, how well you were liked.
If you're like most people, you'll first list your accomplishments, successes, and positions in organizations. Then you'll revise your obit, realizing that what you want to be most remembered for is not how many initials you had after your name or how many employees were beneath you on the organization chart.
Rather, you'll probably want your life story to be about your character:
What useful things did you do?
How good a friend were you?
What kind of a partner?
How well did you behave in crises?
Write it. But understand that the only real way to have the sort of obituary you want is to start living the way you'd like to be remembered.
