An Assortment of the Latest Blog Posts

16 Ways to Fake that You’re Happy

Hey look, I don’t know your circumstances. There are lots of reasons why you might need to fake being happy. You might be meeting with your boss and you need to look like your job...

If You Had a Life Do-Over, What Would You Do Over?

Let’s get a pretty ginormous stat out in the open, straight away: When asked the question “How often do you look back on your life and wish you had done things differently?”, 82.4% of survey...

How to Make a Decision that Feels Right

All I want to do is have fun. (Yes, like that Sheryl Crow song—minus the day drinking on a Tuesday with a stranger named Billy in a dive bar.) Maybe it’s because I recently turned...

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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