Many of the leaders I work with hate their competitors for snagging a chunk of their market share. Remember that one time I wrote a Love Letter to the Grim Reaper? You don’t have to go so far as to profess your undying love (bahahaha, get it? Undying?) for him, but it just might behoove you to respect him and how he (unwittingly) helps you live your life with more intention. But as the saying goes, we must keep our enemies close so they don’t prematurely kill us. I go on and on about avoiding the Reaper-living in such a way to keep him at bay-and then I encourage you to sleep with the enemy. Read my little ditty called At What Age Are You Old?Reframe how you see old age, and then start living a life that proves your best days are ahead of you, not behind you.Visualize the vibrant, elderly version of yourself and hold onto that.
always learning and growing and reading and taking classes. always on the go, getting an impressive number of steps in each day. connected to a strong network of friends and family. Can you deliberately imagine yourself as a vibrantly alive person as you age? Perhaps you want to be thoroughly engaged in hobbies. Make a list of who you hope to be when you’re old-at whatever age ‘old’ means to you.They say that people at 50 who envision themselves positively when they’re older and grayer (like as a social, active, healthy person) live 7.5 years longer than those who are Negative Nancy’s about the future (like those who expect to be chronically sick, dependent on others, frail, and all-around cranky curmudgeons). If you imagine yourself as the person you want to be into the future, and choose an optimistic mindset that you can actually become that version of yourself in your old age, you’ll not only influence your aging outcome but you’ll also live longer. Research shares that how you think you’ll be in old age is a reliable predictor of how you’ll actually be in old age. Maybe you try a new cuisine every Sunday night? Try happy hour at a new place every Wednesday after work? Plan a family excursion the first weekend of every month? Explore a new neighborhood in your city every other Saturday? Research a new topic and present it at a lunch and learn at work every quarter? Create an un-boring ritual that guarantees you’ll get out there and live a little (or a lot).Commit to participating in SOMETHING/ ANYTHING to snap out of the zombie zone. Make a list of boredom busters (i.e.: things you enjoy doing but somehow forget to do when the boob tube lures you into its snare).We can’t even lean on that excuse anymore. There are a bunch of Covid references from back then, but guys-boredom is timeless, and the pandemic just gave us an excuse to be bored. Check out this little collage ‘o doodle I made about boredom.If you knew you were going to kick the bucket 30 days from today, for example, would you be bored between now and then? Or would you be sure to stuff as much meaning and vitality and al pastor tacos in as possible? Begin with the end in mind, and see how it snaps you to attention to participate in the ticking time bomb of your life. Taking the number of Mondays you have left for granted makes you lose perspective on how precious your time left really is. Point 2: Boredom is the luxury of those who have lost perspective on their impermanence (*gasp!*).
Point 1: Boredom has been called a crisis of desire.Īre you self-aware enough to know what makes you feel most alive? And are you willing enough to DO those things, so as not to bore yourself to death? Does your life feel like it has a fine layer of dust on it? Like fun is being had out there, but definitely not by you?
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