Episode 80: A Surprisingly Fun Conversation About Dying with No Regrets, with Jodi Wellman

How many Mondays do you have left? You’re about to find out. Coach and author, Jodi Wellman and I hang out with the Grim Reaper in today’s conversation. We start with a pre-mortem, a pulse check of where you are right now, while you’re still on this side of the lawn. What areas of your life are in the Dead Zone? What teeny tiny steps can you take right now to zhuzh up those parts that are ho-hum? You’ll rate yourself on Jodi’s Astonishingly Alive quadrant and discover if it’s more meaning or fun (or both) that will defibrillate your existence. Uplifting and thought-provoking. 

Links

Jodi Wellman’s website (includes book and QUIZ)

Jodi Wellman on Instagram

Mandy Lehto on Instagram

Zizou and Roger Federer video

Episode 62 of Enough, the Podcast

We Croak app

3:11 Jodi and Mandy riff on why they think so much about death.

10:11 “Fine” is the most dangerous f-word. The three stooges of bore-out, and how our lives grow stale.

13:06 Only 16.6% of people Jodi polled would feel like they had lived fully if they died tonight.

16:48 Use the pre-mortem to diagnose the “dead zones.”

19:11 Jodi’s Astonishingly Alive framework

21:45 Are you Meaningfully Bored or Vitally Empty?

23:52 Jodi’s alive-alicious sentence stem to play with.

24:50 Start small – don’t go gangbusters!

32:13 Zizou & Roger Federer story.

35:08 The Astonishingly Alive Zone (do we have to live here? Sounds exhausting).

38:38 Sometimes we don’t take action on a dream because it’s safer to keep it pristine…

43:03 Calculate how many Mondays you have left & Brick of Wisdom