Good morning. Welcome to the Daily Five, how to survive and thrive in these crazy times of crisis.

And today I wanted to talk to you about something that one of my guests on the show mentioned to me one time and

this was by Edo Portel and I was having what we called a moving conversation with him.

We were walking through the streets of London talking about human movement

and how the brain works with the body and at the very end I said Edo do you have any advice

for me and he said Brian you should meditate on your death every day

And I thought what are you talking about he said Brian meditate on your death every day and it was a bit of a heavy thing to hear at the time but it's something I

thought about when I first heard about the coronavirus crisis and I thought

what if I die and that was the big question and it was

something that I thought a lot about and I think it's something that we all should think about

right now.

I think now is the time to meditate on your death

and to think about what would happen right now

if you did die.

And I know that that can sound like a bit of a grim exercise, as in, you know, it's a depressing thing to think about.

But actually it's not, because it allows you to get your head around the fact if you've done enough in your life. I mean is this it? Is this enough

for you to just call it quits or there are a lot more things that you want to

accomplish? So I think meditating on your death can be a powerful thing and it's

something I did about two weeks ago

when all this hit and I thought wow am I ready to go right now and one thing I

concluded was I'm a lot more ready now than I used to be And that's because for the past nine years,

I've been literally pursuing my dreams.

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