How you livin’? Have you considered you might be roaming the earth having a “near life” experience, existing kind of right outside of your being…not living fully now? Are you slightly adjacent to your life — watching it happen — and not really engaging?
Join Amanda and her super charismatic guest Karen Salmansohn, bestselling author and behavioral change expert, for a light-hearted yet weighty conversation about embracing the reality of your own death and how to make the most of life now!
Their intriguing and interesting discussion covers the following:
🔥"Bridge habits" and how to create them — the process of linking a core value of your identity to a desired outcome to propel you into action to create inner change
🔥How to conduct a "life audit" — the activity of looking at what needs to be cleared out or changed...where are you wasting time in life that instead can be spent on making meaning?
🔥Mortality awareness and how it creates urgency to prioritize what’s important and who you want to be in this life, as well as providing inspiration to take action to do and be those things
🔥Writing your own aspirational eulogy
🔥Aristotle’s philosophy that we have the wrong end goal in sight: We should be driven by soul growth and not material wealth, while simultaneously indulging in fun in moderation
🔥A breakdown of hedonism vs. eudaimonia: Enjoy a lot now (with no suffering) and pay later vs. suffer a bit now (plus enjoy some) and experience much more joy later
🔥Chronological mapping: A colorful drawing of the timeline of events in your life (the ones you welcomed and the one you could do without!) and recognizing the lessons as a way to shift narratives around certain life events
🔥A fun exercise Karen does every month to keep her mortality front and center and motivate her to fill every month with personal growth and purpose
Karen Salmansohn, bestselling author and behavioral change expert, whose books and courses have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. W
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