3892: Living Life To The Fullest by Allison Carmen on Meaningful Living

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🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3892: Allison Carmen reflects on the powerful final words of journalist Steven Sotloff, using them as a call to live each day with deeper presence and gratitude. Through personal reflection and heartfelt conversation, she explores how adopting a practice of gratitude can help us reconnect with what matters most and find strength in the face of fear, grief, and uncertainty. Read along with the original article(s) here: http://www.allisoncarmen.com/living-life-to-the-fullest/ Quotes to ponder: "Everyone has two lives. A second one begins when you realize you only have one. Hug each other every day. Please know I am OK. Live your lives to the fullest and pray to be happy." "It is just a matter of allowing our gratitude to grant us perspective on what is important and what we do have." "With gratitude we change our hyper-focus on the things that are bothering us and we expand to see the entire vista of our lives." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.8	Carmen of Allison Carman.com. And I'm your narrator, Justin Mollick, reading you articles every day of the year,
1:11.6	including holidays. So let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
1:20.0	Living Life to the Fulest by Allison Carmen of Allison Carman.com.
1:25.8	So much has happened in the world since the brutal killing by ISIS of American journalist
1:30.6	Steven Sautloff almost 18 months ago. I came across part of a letter that he wrote to his
1:35.6	family before he was killed, and it seems appropriate to share a blog post I wrote on September 15,
1:40.7	2014, about his death as a reminder to us all about how we live each day.
1:46.9	Quote, everyone has two lives. A second one begins when you realize you only have one.
1:53.6	Hug each other every day. Please know, I am okay. Live your lives to the fullest and pray to be happy.
2:02.6	Steven Sahloff. My friend called me last week to discuss the brutal killing of journalist Steven Salloff.
2:07.6	She told me that the news of his killing, along with the murder of journalist James Foley,
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