☠️🤩BIG DAY OVER HERE🤩☠️!!
It’s the Official Book Unboxing Extravaganza 📚!!! Without @gwynethpaltrow ’s head in a box!
You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets is out on May 7th and I got my stash from the publisher @voraciousbooks !!!!!! (Yes! You can order the book in my bio link and Yes! You can get the preorder bonus in yet another bio link! SO MANY YESSES!!)
Guys! Has anyone ever died just gazing at a stack of books? I might die happy doing just that. ☠️📚📚📚
Thanks for your support by preordering it, reading it, and maybe even licking it. I won’t stop you from licking it.
Guys! We only die once. Let’s do this life justice and get out there, living it up 😌😌😌🤗🤗🤗!!!!!!!
#fourthousandmondays #bookunboxing #carpediem @lauramazer@dnewellthea
Hello! I’m Jodi—and I, like you, am totally dying! I thought it was rude of me to not have introduced myself yet, so, well, hello via video. Please don’t be offended that the Grim Reaper is my muse. I (loosely) promise we’ll talk more about life than death ☠️. Stick around for inspiration on living like we mean it while we’re lucky to be above ground.
Look alive out there!
Oh, and please introduce yourself. Life’s too short to be strangers.
#fourthousandmondays #carpediem #lifeisshort #femalespeaker #grimreaper #positivepsychology
Gulp! I did a TEDx talk! And I lived to tell the tale! (The link is in my bio, so thank you thank you thank you for watching it.)
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I spent every waking hour over the last five months equal parts giddy with excitement and pee-my-pants nervous. You know how else I can describe this potent cocktail of feelings? UNDENIABLY ALIVE. It felt like I had taken a swig out of a bottle of Concentrated Vitality (I somehow imagine it to be cherry flavored), and then took another swig, and then got that crazy look in my eye and said, “bottoms up!” while chugging the bottle until it was empty and I was full to the brim, intoxicated with life.
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It’s been a while since I’ve felt this way — this electric, this alive. I have a tendency to play things safe (and we all know that playing it small and safe creates nothing but a life of soul-macerating mediocrity). My fear can get the best of me, so I don’t always pursue the things that just might give me a shot at feeling like I’m doing something that matters… doing something where the stakes are high… doing something that makes me vulnerable and at risk of messing up along the way and/or in the big moment… doing something that requires me to not take a tumble on the round red TED carpet in four inch heels.
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Now that I’ve been bit by the bug of “the anti-comfort zone,” I’m hooked. I will no longer postpone my existence. I will pursue the things that guarantee butterflies, possible failure, and that distinct feeling of pride that comes from trying really, really hard.
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Where are you holding back in your life? Where might you be afraid to put yourself out there? Are you wanting to start a podcast? Write a book? Do a piano recital? Try your standup routine at an open mic night? Apply for a bigger job? Do a TEDx talk? Get your invention patented? Ask Mindy in marketing out to that new tapas place? Go. For. It. Life is too short not to.
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I’d be honored if you’d watch my talk here (alright I’m begging you to watch it), and even more grateful if you’d share it with the people in your life who might benefit from a little more life in their lives (so, everyone). Thank you, friends! (Link in bio!)
27 Light-Touch Ideas to Make Life Lovelier (so many of these ideas are yours by the way!!):
☠️ “Put everything on auto-ship. I can’t believe how long I went on, waiting until products ran out to reorder. We buy several cat items every month from Chewy, for example, and now they just show up when we need them. That’s living the good life!” (Lisa)
☠️ “Something little I do to enhance my life: I bought a timer for our lamp in the living room and it comes on as soon as it starts to get dark out. It immediately creates a cozy mood in the house without me having to think about creating the vibe. I have it set so it goes off around when we go up to bed too. It’s very simple but it makes me really happy every single day when it goes on!” (Michelle)
☠️ “I get our coffee prep ready the night before so it’s not annoying in the morning when I’m haggard. This means filling the coffee maker and getting the mugs ready.” (Bill)
☠️ “I bought a portable stand up desk that is fully adjustable to various heights (it’s possible to also sit at it) — love it because it’s super lightweight which allows me to easily roll it around, permitting me to gaze at various bird feeders around my yard while I’m working! The work (eventually) gets done despite these sweet distractions—and it’s used much more than my immovable standing desk.” (Cat)
☠️ “We do a lot of walking, so I get a new pair of shoes each year (spring – the weather is great and new shoes make me more excited to get off my butt).” (Bill)
☠️ “I do the laundry during the week so I can have a chore-free weekend.” (Becka)
Okay I can’t fit all your ideas here so check out the blog post for the rest of the 27 (link in bio)! And keep sharing your ideas in the comments! It’s the little things that go a long way in a life worth living 😌♥️
#lifehacks
Are there stupid little things that you have been settling for in your life? Yeah, me too.
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Guys, that’s enough of that bullshit.
Life is too short to settle for bumps on your stomach! There is help out there!
And even if there isn’t, it’s worth it to try.
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Do you have any examples of little things that you have fixed that have made your life immeasurably better just because you finally got around to dealing with it?
We need to stop squandering our lives and we also need to stop settling in them.
Now I get to go to the grave with a smooth stomach. There will never be six packs on my stomach, but at least the bumps are gone 😉
#nosettling
I met at a new friend on a plane ride last week (crazy, right?!?) and he gave me mind blowing idea about reading non fiction books:
“When you feel you’ve gotten value at least equal to the cost of the book, you can stop reading and pick up another one. Of course, you can keep reading but this allows you to stop guilt free and read something else.”
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Do you agree or disagree with this? Do you stick it through to the bitter end when you read non fiction? Do you flip through and cherry pick the parts you want to read? Or do you get one great idea and move on because you have 38 other books in your queue?
And how do you know if you have gotten value out of a book 🤔🤔🤔? Thank you for sharing your ideas!
#youonlydieonce #booktalk
Isn’t this quote so inspiring ✨?
“… the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving—we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” (George Wendell Holmes)
We must set sail ⛵️! We aren’t drifters! (This is a very good reminder for me when I let the wind just blow me around for a while. I remind myself that I need to steer the ship, or whatever the right phrase is in the sailing world ⛵️.)
By the way… I totally recommend How Will I Ever Get Through This by @drlucyhone … it’s such a great book about navigating through tough times.
Don’t you love this quote, too?! It’s easy to forget we have agency… especially when things feel dark or crappy or blah.
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#inspirationalquote
Ever feel like your days are flying by ⏳⏳⏳😲😲😲? Yeah, we’re pretty much on a fast-forward treadmill to the grave 😏.
But it’s not all dire! Research shows that if we add novelty to our days, it can change our perception of the passing of time… It can seemingly slow it down.
This is why travel is so incredible… and if we can’t just get up and skip town, the good news is that even the little things make a difference to slow our perception of time down.
I’m going to go for a walk in a new neighborhood on Sunday. That will make the day feel longer than if I just did the usual neighborhood jaunt.
What are you going to do 🤗🤗?
OK also, please tell me you didn’t notice the crumb on the side of my mouth. Why doesn’t anyone around here tell me I have breakfast on my face?
#novelty #trysomethingnew
New episode: Tiny Life Tweaks with Jodi Wellman ❤️
You know that one drawer that always drives you crazy or that one can opener that never works when you need it to?
What if you took those tiny nudges and turned them into action instead of frustration? I talk to Jodi Wellman about little life shifts that free up our energy and mental space so we can feel good feelings again ❤️
I always enjoy talking to Jodi about how to embrace the present moment more and this conversation was super fun and inspiring:
/us/podcast/the-motivation-mindset-with-risa-williams/id1643053152
#fourthousandmondays #jodiwellman #risawilliams #motivationmindset #tinylifetweaks #tiny #tinysteps #tinywins
I love this made up word 🤗🤓! Xeno.
@thedictionaryofobscuresorrows says it’s the smallest moment of human interaction… Those fleeting moments between strangers… Those quick smiles… Those little connection points that make us feel less alone.
Isn’t that beautiful? And isn’t it so true? Sometimes it’s the smallest nod from the barista or someone at the gate at the airport or a stranger while walking… Don’t you agree?
Have you had a Xeno moment lately? I just had it at the grocery store with the woman who was collecting the carts. It felt warm and fuzzy and like I wasn’t alone while I was going in to buy bananas.
#xeno #wearenotalone
To what extent do you believe the best is yet to come 😲🙄?
Five years from now, do you think your life will be better? Or worse?
@gallup research shows 59% of Americans believe their lives will be high-quality in five years. That means 41% us adults believe their future in five years will be rife with cataclysmic, unmitigated misfortune. (I do love hyperbole… 😏)
The good news is that we can build our hope muscles up 🤗💪. @jenfish23 just came out with a great book called Hope is the Strategy… check it out if you’re feeling a wee bit hopeless about your future.
Check out my blog post this week on this topic… and in the meantime? Never forget that you have agency to take action on any of your goals and hopes and dreams. Sometimes a ton of hope can sprout from just taking one step forward into the life you’ve imagined.
Shall we raise a glass to the future… Because the best really is yet to come?!
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#thebestisyettocome
Does this quote grab you by the throat, too—in the “you need to get your life straight” kind of way 😳🫣?
Every time I read it it makes me want to put on a lifejacket &/or order another margarita &/or go on a personal retreat (not the sailing kind tho) to Figure Shit Out.
I love it so much it hurts.
(Also, am I the only one who could listen to that Sailing song over and over on repeat? You gotta love some Christopher Cross @itsmrcross 🫠😌)
(Remind me to tell you about that time we went to a Christopher Cross concert in Chicago and two middle aged ladies got trashed and subsequently kicked out. Yes, there were bouncers at a yacht rock concert at @citywinerychi . Those ladies did not have a favorable wind going for them that night. I loved that so much it hurt, too 😌🫣.
And now I need to know… what do you like more… the Seneca quote or the Christopher Cross song?!
#inspirationalquotes #stoicism
