An Assortment of the Latest Blog Posts

When Happiness Isn’t Easy

There are things we must lament in life—death, taxes, how they still haven’t made an all-red bag of Skittles (Mars Wrigley executives: make this make sense? Yeah, see you can’t. Proffer up an all-red bag...

What Are You Ready to “Put to Rest”?

Look at you! You’re fabulous! You’re so talented at _________ (you fill in the blanks, Hotshot—I’m not a mentalist), and (*insert the construction-site-cat-call*) you’re stunning, too—look at those ________ (don’t be bashful—if you’ve got a...

When Will You Have “Made It”?

I recently visited a dear friend at her newly finished home—a home that stood on a perch with 360º views of glorious California wine country, replete with red-tailed hawks soaring in front of us as...

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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