Welcome guys and gals, the man talk show. I'm Connor Beaten and today we're going to talk about

what you want to do before you die. Now this has been something that I've really been thinking about

lately and it's kind of been on my mind, not on the sense of like what happens after death or like,

you know, writing your, you know, writing like your eulogy or, you know, your funeral speech or something

like that. But, but actually sort of leveraging death and leveraging the knowledge that at some

point, this form, this plane of existence is going to end. And being able to look at the things that you

want to do and the things that you want to be and the things you want to accomplish and the things you want to experience and the people that you want to

meet before that end comes and and to really have it be a motivator you know something that that sort

of like lights a fire under you and it's interesting because a lot of cultures a lot of religions

have have practiced this

very, very similar exercise. And so the mystic Christians back in, I think the 15th or 16th century,

actually had a practice called Momento Mori, which literally translates to reflections of death

or meditations on death.

And they would practice actually looking at what they had regretted in their life so far.

And those regrets became the things that they knew that they need to heal.

And those regrets became the things that they wanted to work through and that they wanted to change and shift.

But they also looked at the end of their life and they meditated on the end of their life and they would actually reflect as if it was the end of their life, whatever point in time,

they believe that they would die, whether they thought that they would be 70 or 80.

And they would look back at their life and meditate on what they would have

wanted to accomplish, what they would have wanted to experience and become and who they would

have wanted to meet. And I think that this is such a worthy endeavor. And so I've actually

undertaken this over the last year of just thinking you know, thinking about and meditating on and reflecting

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