170. How Many Mondays Do You Have left? Why You Need to Go After Your Dreams Now Featuring Jodi Wellman
Explore the urgency of pursuing your dreams in this eye-opening episode. Discover how embracing each day can motivate you to live fully, chase your passions, and minimize regrets.
The Power of Now: Understanding the urgency of making the most out of each Monday.
Deeper Meaning in Life: How to uncover and embrace what truly matters to you.
Choosing Yourself: The importance of prioritizing your own dreams and aspirations.
Living Without Regrets: Strategies to ensure you look back on life with pride and fulfillment.
Living with Vitality: Tips to infuse your life with energy, enthusiasm, and passion.
Jodi Wellman is a speaker, author, assistant instructor in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania, and founder of Four Thousand Mondays. Her book is called "You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets," which made Adam Grant’s Summer Reading List and is a Next Big Idea Club must-read. Jodi has been featured in Oprah Daily, Fast Company, CNBC, Forbes, Psychology Today, The Los Angeles Times, and more. Jodi’s TEDx talk is called How Death Can Bring You Back to Life; with over 1.3 million views, it is the 14th most-watched TEDx talk released in 2022, out of 15,900!
02:52: Squandering years to feel like you are enough
07:20 The meaning you give experiences
08:55 Counting Mondays
14:30 Choosing yourself
19:10 Awareness, meaning and depth of life
27:50 Initiating joy in your life, and releasing guilt
31:00 Stop waiting for "one day", avoid end-of-life regret
40:00 Dueling needs of now and later
44:58 Post-traumatic growth
48:50 Willingness