Jodi Wellman

But for the most part, I like to go through a thought exercise, and I do this with workshops I do with groups and teams.

Imagine you came home from the hospital.

You made it out alive.

And does that stupid email matter to you anymore?

Does worrying about what people might think if you change your career, does the worry about, oh, will the kids adjust if we move to Portland?

Yeah, they'll figure it out.

In pursuit of a life worth living, I think that it does take a really conscious override of those worries because you're not alone, Mike.

I mean, I have them too.

I talk about this stuff all selfishly because I need to override my tendencies of fear and worry as well.

Yeah.

So the first thing, like I said, was counting your Mondays.

Most people haven't done that.

Most people have a notion of how many years they have left, but it's too vague.

So when you count Mondays, it makes it granular and it activates that science that I was telling you about in psychology, which is that awareness that when you see something as rare and limited time only, it does tend to heighten its value or its perceived value.

Well, for a cheat sheet, I have a calculator on my website on the resources page for those of us that don't want to do math.

And that's at 4000mondays.com on the resources.

But if you want to do it right now, it is 78 years is the average life expectancy for men minus your age.

And then multiply that by 52.

If you identify as female, start with 83 as your life expectancy minus your age times 52.

And if you don't identify with either, average it out at 80 years.