An Assortment of the Latest Blog Posts

Are You Living a One-Dimensional Life?

"It matters to me that the thing I do for work is the least interesting thing about me." (*insert flabbergasted face*) A friend said this to me recently, and I knew she knew a thing...

How Much Longer Are You Going to Wait?

Last week I wrote a post called Are You a Dream Weaver or a Dream Leaver and I stirred some dream dust up out there. I love to rankle, because it’s the poke in the...

Are you a Dream Weaver or a Dream Leaver?

What is a Dream Weaver? Dream Weaver is a great song, obviously. Possibly about psychedelics, now that I’ve looked up the lyrics? Dream Weavers—despite the cheese-ball name—are people who fathom dreams and goals and ideas...

A POWERFUL LATIN PHRASE

“Memento Mori” translates to “remember you must die.”

“Death is very likely the single best invention of life” (so said Steve Jobs), and it's the number one motivator we have to live like we mean it—to live regret-free lives.

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We’re all going to die, and we all know it.

We get about 4,000 weeks in our lives, and it's up to us how we spend them. How much life do we want in our lives?

LET'S NOT JUST LIVE LONGER

Let’s live wider and deeper—full of vitality and meaning.

The non-creepy contemplation of death can jolt us out of autopilot, and help us fall in love with our lives again. My research-backed programs can help.

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
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