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The Science of Success

Find Your Purpose In Life When You’re Lost, Confused, and Uncertain - Lessons from Death’s Door with Jon Vroman

The Science of Success

Matt Bodnar

Entrepreneurship, Education, Social Sciences, Science, Self-improvement, Business

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we discuss how to find your purpose in life, especially when you’re lost or confused about what to do next. We hear some incredible stories and unforgettable lessons from people who are fighting through life threatening illnesses, and look at how to really push yourself beyond what you thought was possible to achieve what truly matters to you, all of this and much more with our guest Jon Vroman. Jon Vroman is the co-founder of The Front Row Foundation, a charity that creates unforgettable moments for individuals who are braving life-threatening illnesses. Jon teaches others to “Live Life In The Front Row” through teaching and inspiring others with the Art of Moment Making. He is also an award-winning speaker, podcast host, and multi best-selling author.Learning about living life, from people who are fighting for their livesWhen you are facing down death - things become super clear. A lot of things that we used to worry about seem to fade into the backgroundWhy one woman was happy that people looked at her with disgust when she was going through her chemo treatmentYour life is going to end. The ride is going to come to an end. How does that shape and change your thinking?How do you face the reality of existence, and mortality, with a sense of vibrancy and positive urgency instead of anxiety and fear of death?If we ask powerful questions, we get powerful answers. Questions shape our lives.If we get ask the wrong questions, we get the wrong answers. You have to manage your mindset. You have to create a positive environment and you have to surround yourself with powerful positive relationships How do we foster powerful relationships Action Item: Write down the 8 most important people in your life, then write down that their #1 goal or dream. Do you know it? How can you help THEM achieve it. Hope can powerfully shape your behavior Hope is uniting, hope is collaborative, hope brings things to life When life throws you curve balls, when you get punched in the face - hope brings you through - it creates the power of possibilities Ask yourself and others “what dreams are making you come alive right now?” If this year was wildly successful for you how would it change your life? How do you fuel yourself? Why do you want to do what you do?The power of telling yourself “If you can’t, you must"When your why has heart, your how gets legs. When the why really matters, you will always find a How. You don’t have to know how, you can figure the how out if you have a strong enough why. How to create real purpose, real fuel in your life - to really push yourself beyond what you thought was possible to achieve what truly matters to youBeing a parent vs being a business person - where does your identity sit? How does shame show up in your life? The ego, the false self, and the true selfBeing a better parent isn’t about learning to say specific things to your kids, it’s not about practical and logical action steps and items - it’s about awakening and developing yourselfHomework: write out the list of your top 8 relationships and write out their dreams, do something once a month to support their dreams. And follow up. And do it right now. Do it with no expectation of anything in return. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Science of Success.

0:05.0

Introducing your host, Matt Bodner.

0:10.0

Welcome to the Science of Success, the number one evidence-based growth

0:15.2

podcast on the internet with more than 3 million downloads and listeners in

0:19.1

over 100 countries. In this episode we discuss how to find your purpose in life, especially when you're lost or

0:26.6

confused about what to do next.

0:29.5

We hear some incredible stories and unforgettable lessons from people who are fighting through life-threatening illnesses.

0:36.7

And look at how to really push yourself beyond what you thought was possible to achieve

0:42.0

what truly matters to you.

0:43.7

All of this and much more with our guest John Vromin.

0:48.0

Do you need more time, time for work, time for thinking and reading,

0:52.2

time for the people in your life, time to

0:54.5

accomplish your goals. This was the number one problem our listeners

0:58.8

outlined and we created a new video guide that you can get completely for free when you sign up and

1:04.7

join our email list. It's called how you can create time for the things that

1:09.6

really matter in life. You can get it completely for free. When you sign up and join the

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email list at success podcast.com, you're also going to get exclusive content

1:18.9

that's only available to our email subscribers. We recently pre-released an episode in an interview to our

1:25.2

email subscribers a week before it went live to our broader audience and that had

1:29.4

tremendous implications because there was a limited offer in there with only 50

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available spots that got eaten up by the people who were on the email list first.

1:37.8

With that same interview we also offered an exclusive opportunity for people on

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