Jim Murphy

And I'm in my hotel room.

What was amazing about that week, it was such an intense week for many reasons.

So January 12th was that Sunday.

My mom died January 16th.

And she was 91.

She had an amazing life, had a huge impact on my life and taught me so much.

So it was an answer to prayer because she was suffering.

But it was a very somber week and also kind of a slow week in my life.

And just, it'd been years of kind of my, both parents died and my sister died and trying to care for them.

And things were slow and business was slow and I actually didn't pay off my credit cards in January.

I had money in investments, but I didn't have any in my checking and

I look up at the skyscraper in downtown Dallas that Sunday afternoon, and I had just written a book called The Best Possible Life, How to Live a Deep Contentment, Joy, and Confidence No Matter What.

It's a much smaller, easier book to read on the spiritual life and kind of a summary of inner excellence.

And so that book had just come out, and I remember looking at the skyscraper that afternoon, and the thought came to me was, Jim, would you rather own that skyscraper for whatever hundreds of millions of dollars it's worth, or would you rather have written the book The Best Possible Life?

And I thought,

No, I wouldn't trade it for hundreds of millions of dollars.

And so I thought, well, at least you got that.

That's pretty cool.

And then a couple hours later, everything changed.

My whole life changed.