Aside from the obvious benefits of this perspective to bring clarity in deciding what you work on each day, each week, each hour, it also brings to me a strong

Aside from the obvious benefits of this perspective to bring clarity in deciding what you work on each day, each week, each hour, it also brings to me a strong sense of respect for other peoples' time. I strive, for this very reason, to always be on time for meetings. If I say I'll see you at the coffee shop at 10:30, I'll be there at or before 10:30, barring any unanticipatable derailments. It doesn't pay to get obsessive about it, but such time consciousness fosters a respect for the other person's death. A good way to piss me off is to be persistently careless with meeting times; you're showing a marked disrespect for my time/death. And your own. Being aware of death also helps me maintain quality, precision and focus when dealing with groups of people: I was always very aware of "other peoples' time" when addressing groups (sometimes large groups) of people in the forms of teaching and speaking at conferences. The awareness that, for each second of my time "spent", I am being granted the amazing gift of tens, hundreds or even thousands of seconds of everybody else's time. To me a humbling thought that always helped me get my own damn ego out of the way and focus on adding quality/value to the content of whatever I was trying to deliver.