2024 GREATS: 983: Making the Most of Your Limited Time Before Death with Jodi Wellman

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jodi Wellman shares how reflecting on our scarce remaining time of life helps us live free from regret.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why you need to befriend the Grim Reaper

2) How to feel “astonishingly alive”

3) How to break out of a rut

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— ABOUT JODI —

Jodi Wellman is a former corporate executive turned executive coach. She has a Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is an instructor in the Master’s program and a trainer in the world-renowned Penn Resilience Program. She is a Professional Certified Coach with the ICF and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach from CTI.

She has coached and spoken with clients like American Express, Fidelity, pwc, Royal Bank of Canada, BMW, and more, and runs her own business, Four Thousand Mondays. She’s also known for her inspirational TEDx Talk on how death can bring you back to life. She lives between Palm Springs and Chicago with her husband and cat, Andy.

• Book: You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets

• Mondays Calculator: Calculate how many Monday mornings you have left

• Website: FourThousandMondays.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death by Irvin Yalom

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to our fourth and final
0:03.0	representation of the great episodes of 2024.
0:07.0	During this zone of time, post-Christmas, pre-New Year's,
0:11.4	is often a phenomenal time for reflection at seeing, hey, how do things go?
0:16.4	And what do I want the next year to be about?
0:18.6	There's a little bit of often calm, maybe reduction in work volume, and an opportunity to do some of that reflection.
0:24.7	And boy, an episode that I reflect back on frequently is with Jody Wellman talking about reflecting on the fact that our time on this earth is quite finite.
0:40.0	And reflecting on that need not be morbid or spooky or terrifying, but rather inspiring to ignite a fire under us, to do what it is
0:48.8	you really believe in. And it's funny, I've got a buddy who, I mentioned this in the episode,
0:59.8	he was reflecting on this very notion, start a company, got some funding, and that's just been going phenomenally well.
1:11.4	And so I'm so proud of him. And it's cool what things pop up when you summon the courage to reflect upon just how much time you have left on this earth and just maybe what you want to go ahead and do with that. So now we represent to you, episode 983, making the most of your limited time
1:18.3	before death with Jody Wellman.
1:27.2	We all rationally know we have an expiry day.
1:29.3	We don't know when it is, but we all understand it.
1:32.3	But it's the reminder that we need to keep in mind and keep fresh.
1:36.3	Life will pass us by. We know this full well.
1:40.3	We need to start capturing some of these desires because otherwise they will float away
1:44.7	and we'll get focused on the things that are sometimes important
1:48.0	but mostly urgent.
1:50.5	Think about your legacy.
1:51.6	How do you want to be described when you're long gone at your funeral?
1:55.2	And that is the reverse way to engineer a life that you love
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