How many marbles have you got left?

I was asked to do this task at a Leadership / Management course,

Write down what age you think you'll live too?

Write down you're favorite day of the week?

Calculate how many favorite days of the week you'll have until you think you'll die? (take the age you think you'll live to minus current age x 52)

3462 Sundays left in my life if I live to 101

Now what you're meant to do is go out and buy the exact amount of marbles relating to the number of your favorite days you think you'll have left, put them in a jar and each week take one of the marbles out and throw it away.

After being told to do this task I was told a true story about a guy who two years after doing the task, buying the marbles and then throwing them away, started to panic, realised his life was drifting away before his very eyes. He left his well paid executive job in Dublin, married his long-term Japanese girlfriend, moved to Japan, got a new job and thinks life couldn't be better.

Life is valuable, don't lose your marbles before you have too!