Mel Robbins

Welcome back.

It's your friend Mel Robbins.

And today you and I are spending time with professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, the brilliant minds behind Stanford University's incredible course called Designing Your Life.

And today they're here to teach you and I how to create more meaning in our lives.

Here's another thing I was wondering about.

When you go to a funeral, it's very interesting.

The second you walk out of the funeral...

you feel more alive and you have more urgency to do what you came here to do, Dave and Bill.

You said, we want to give people permission to live their lives.

And especially right now when the world feels so overwhelming and people are exhausted and there are very big problems, it's easy to go, it doesn't matter.

And when you start to do the math, whether you're telling me that you have seven different lives you could do, you're going to die with shit on your to-do list and things you never achieved.

You're 50, so what?

You got 40, you're 70, you probably got 20 more years left.

What are you doing?

You could also, you do that exercise thinking about what you hope or wish is being said about how you lived your life.

Because what you don't want it to be is, well, he got to be 70 and had the love of his life and just turned down the opportunity to get married again and do it.

And she wanted to go to medical school, but talked herself out of it for 30 years.

So how old did you say you were going to be when you died?

And what was the thing that you haven't done yet that was on the list?

I'd like you to live a little longer.