TSW Short: 4,000 Weeks to Live

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I once had a psychic tell me I was going to live to 97 years old.

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That wasn't jazzed by this idea?

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Not only because I didn't think psychics were allowed to tell

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you when you were going to die.

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But also because my Nana had recently died at the age of 97 and her

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quality of life, the last five or so years, she was on earth was well.

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Pretty fucking shitty.

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The truth is.

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None of us is born with a death date.

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We don't know when we're going to die.

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We certainly don't like to think about it.

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And this can trick us into thinking that we have unlimited time.

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Welcome to episode 1 55 of the shit works.

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A podcast dedicated to all things, networking, relationship

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building and business development.

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I'm your host, Julie Brown.

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Speaker author and networking coach.

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And in today's the shit work short.

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Yep.

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I'm going to do it for the month of August as well.

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I'm discussing the idea of time.

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Time management and what really matters.

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There is a book by Oliver Bergman titled 4,000 weeks.

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He says that if you live to 80 years old, that is approximately that

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number of weeks, you get to live.

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And that when you look at that number, it seems devastatingly short.

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And because of this, you should aim to live a life filled with things that are

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important to you that make you happy.

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And not worry so much about getting everything on your

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work to do list done, you know?

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Enjoy life.

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So that particular psychics prophecy aside at 47 years old, I have

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lived to approximately 2,450 weeks.

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And with Berkman's thinking I have about 1,550 weeks left.

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It just doesn't seem like enough time.

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And I can see looking at that number, causing me to think about every

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decision I make in terms of do I really want to be spending any of

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my remaining 1,550 weeks doing this?

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There's a quote in the book related to just how brief this timeframe feels.

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Birkman wants.

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And I quote to see if we can discover or recover some ways of thinking about time

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that do justice to our real situation.

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To the outrageous brevity and shimmering possibilities of our 4,000 weeks.

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I'm not writing this podcast to scare you or depress you, I'm writing this podcast

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to give you permission to do all the things that you've been wanting to do, but

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you have been putting off for one reason or another, mostly because you think

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that there will always be time to do it.

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So take that trip, make that call, do the damn thing.

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We were getting more in life.

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The things we didn't do than the things we did.

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4,000 weeks.

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I hope you will have more than that.

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I hope I have more than that.

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But whatever you're going to do with the time left, what

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adventures could you go on?

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What relationships could you make?

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What relationships could you mend?

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What do you want to learn?

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What do you want to experience?

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What do you want to do with your one precious life?

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And who do you want to do those things with?

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And what shitty to do list is holding you back from those moments.

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Growing up by the ocean, living by, you know, the shore, my entire life.

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I've always known the saying that time and tide waits for no man.

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Time keeps marching on and you can't get time back.

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Which is why you should never, and I mean, never sit through one of those

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wretched timeshare presentations.

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When you are on vacation, number one, they are a scam.

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Number two, you are never going to buy a timeshare anywhere.

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And number three, whatever freebie they have promised you for sitting through

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that bullshit presentation is not worth a minute of your precious vacation time.

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Okay.

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Are we clear on that we will not be spending any of our time

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in shitty situations like that.

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Perfect.

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Okay.

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All right, friends, that's all for this week because this is

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another, this shit works short.

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There isn't a drink of the week.

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Drink, whatever you want, but you know, Life is short.

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So maybe drink the good stuff.

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And you can find me on LinkedIn at Julie Brown BD.

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