(Podcast recorded Friday 6th June 2025; release date and link to follow ...)
This both is, and is not, a journal for self-improvement - that depends on you.
It is proposed as a mirror.
Or, more pointedly, a reckoning.
And — if you let it — a doorway. The door is still open for you ... for now.
The questions that follow are direct, provocative, alive with the urgency of what
matters.
Once you've answered them, you might want to kick them around with someone
who has your best interests at heart. If there is no such other, then that person is
you.
You may want to have another shot at them in a year's time. Or in a month — it
depends on how much time you reckon you have to play around with.
Here's something: Every morning I say to myself, 'I was not promised this day.' I
immediately feel grateful. And I've found feeling grateful is a good way to start
the day, no matter what.
The point of this is, most of us live as if we have time, when we cannot know that.
That's why I say, each day, 'I was not promised this day.' But it's like in each
person's heart they believe they are going to be the first immortal, while in their
heads they know that life is a terminal illness. So, let's assume you are going to
die one day, and that you don't actually know when or where or how. The
handful of questions that follows invites you to begin to ask what happens if you
let go of the comfortable and reassuring assumption that you have as much time
as anybody else.
The prompts are not meant to soothe. They’re meant to open you to the
preciousness of your singular existence.
They are here for you, below — at least while you’re still around to answer them.
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