An Assortment of the Latest Blog Posts

Are You Enjoying—or Saving—the Good Stuff in Life?

It’s time for another installment of Personal Interrogation Reflection: multiple choice format! Take a shot of vodka truth serum and answer the following three questions: Question 1: How often do you use your “good” meal...

I Refuse to Contain My Unbridled Enthusiasm!

Fair warning: I am feeling very exclamation-pointy today!! THERE IS A LOT OF EXCITEMENT GOING ON OVER HERE AND ALL-CAPS AND EXCLAMATION POINTS SURE DO CAPTURE THE FERVOR OF EMOTION, DON’T THEY?!! Except all-caps are...

Your Life Review (Before You Go and Die)

YOU: "What, what? WTF is a Life Review?" ME: "I love how inquisitive you are!" A life review exercise, which involves revisiting and evaluating your life experiences, can be a profoundly meaningful and therapeutic endeavor....

The Facts of Life (and Death)

Let’s get real with the stats, facts, and figures of our pending demise. Remember… death can be the animating condition that motivates us to live both wider with vitality and deeper with meaning. It doesn’t have to make us shit our pants.

4000MONDAYS
78BIRTHDAYS FOR MEN
83BIRTHDAYS FOR WOMEN
100% WORLD DEATH RATE
60% Believe in AFTERLIFE
90% HAPPINESS IN BHUTAN
25% LIVING WILLS IN PLACE
12SECONDS BETWEEN U.S. DEATHS
48% LESS DEATH WITH MORE HUMOR
6EXTRA YEARS FOR FLOSSING
7LESS YEARS IF (-) ABOUT DEATH
12% LESS DEATH IF CREATIVE
50% LONGER LIFE IF SOCIAL
20% OF DEATHS FROM POOR DIETS
50% LIKELIER DEATH IF >4 HRS TV
8EXTRA YRS IF QUIT SMOKING BY 35
Life Timeline

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