983: Making the Most of Your Limited Time Before Death with Jodi Wellman
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 40 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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| 0:00.0 | We all |
| 0:05.0 | rationally know we have an expiry day. |
| 0:09.0 | We don't know when it is, but we all understand it, |
| 0:12.0 | but it's the reminder that we need to keep in mind and keep fresh. |
| 0:17.1 | Life will pass us by. |
| 0:18.2 | We know this full well. |
| 0:19.7 | We need to start capturing some of these desires because otherwise they will float away and |
| 0:24.4 | will get focused on the things that are sometimes important but mostly urgent. |
| 0:30.0 | Think about your legacy how do you want to be described when you're long gone at your funeral? |
| 0:34.6 | And that is the reverse way to engineer a life that you love and that you are proud to be living. loving. She's known for her |
| 0:53.7 | known for her inspirational TEDx talk on how death can bring you back to life. |
| 0:57.9 | Her work focuses on inspiring people to make the most of their remaining time |
| 1:02.1 | by doing the things that bring you the most joy. |
| 1:04.4 | So you'll learn one why you need to befriend the Graham Reaper, two how to feel |
| 1:09.3 | astonishingly alive and three how to break out of a rut. |
| 1:13.5 | I'm Pete McInitis. |
| 1:14.6 | This is how to be awesome at your job, |
| 1:16.1 | and now here's Jody. |
| 1:18.1 | Jody, welcome. |
| 1:22.6 | Thank you for having me here. I'm excited. |
| 1:25.0 | I am excited too. |
| 1:26.5 | I understand you say you have about 1822-ish Mondays left. Any big plans here? |
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