Impermanence, Death and Other Sexy Things

<p>Think about this for a minute: if you knew – like really knew – you only had a year or a month or however long left to live, how would your mindset change? How many of those inner obstacles currently holding you back would fall away if you truly grasped the impermanent nature of your own life?</p><p>Because we think we have time, we spend time on habits (mental, physical, and spiritual) that distract us from creating the life we’re meant to live. We allow ourselves to remain in that comfortable cocoon of “for now” because we’d really rather avoid having to deal with the anxiety, fear and overwhelm that we’d have to overcome to take action. We wait for… another time.</p><p>We put the important things off.</p><p>We put off the big adventure – and it’s not just the adventures we put off</p><p>We put off the inner work, too</p><p>We put off forgiving that thing that happened a long ass time ago.</p><p>We put off telling someone we love them</p><p>We put off just letting ourselves be fucking <strong>happy </strong>already.</p><p>One of the main reasons we do this is because we believe we will have tomorrow, or next month, or next year, or after we retire, or after we graduate, or after we get the raise…</p><p>But we don’t know that</p><p>Today we’re digging into a couple topics that many people like to avoid the most: the true impermanence of our time here on earth, and the big kicker, the uncomfiest of subjects: death.</p><p>But hang with me, there’s a method to this madness!</p><p>The first step to changing our mindsets and our actions to create the lives we really want, we have to talk about these things. To recognize, sit with and meet them head on. Because when we fully realize 1. how precious, fleeting, and miraculous this life of ours is, and 2. we are going to die and we don’t know when—that is when we truly start living. </p><p>Our hearts open, we give love freely, we find the courage to face our fears and start living the way we’ve been longing to, right now. Believe me, I learned this the hard way.</p><p