The secret is out that we’re all living on borrowed time, so the question is whether we’re stuck in autopilot and going through the motions in our lives, or whether we’re living like we mean it with vitality and meaning… living lives we’d be proud to look back on without the faintest whiff of regret on our eventual deathbeds.
Shining the light on our scarcity of time helps us get clear about what matters. You might have more than 2,000 starts to your week left until your life calls it quits or only 20 to go. How do you want most of those Mondays to be? Life’s far too short to feel anything less than astonishingly alive. While we can’t control how long we live, we can control how well we live. You can make even the subtlest change to your well-being to start living the liveliest version of your life. How do you want your thousands or hundreds or dozens of Mondays to feel? How can you make that happen, without another week down the drain?
In this interactive talk rooted in the science of positive psychology, we’ll talk about how we can be more mindful about living the lives we’d love to live, and actually start living those lives… today, without a Monday to spare.
Jodi Wellman is a speaker, author, and facilitator on living lives worth living. She founded Four Thousand Mondays to help people make the most of the time they are lucky to be above ground.
Jodi has a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor in the Master’s program and a facilitator in the Penn Resilience Program. She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach.
Jodi’s TEDx talk is called How Death Can Bring You Back to Life; with over 1.3 million views, it is the 14th most-watched TEDx talk released in 2022, out of 15,900!
Her book, "You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets" was published in May 2024 by Voracious (Little, Brown & Company), and made Adam Grant’s Summer Reading List. Jodi has been featured in The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Fast Company, CNBC, Forbes, Psychology Today, The Los Angeles Times, BigThink, and more.
As usual, the Salon will take place outdoors at the Desert Star.
Please bring a bottle of your preferred beverage to share. (Drinks are not provided by S4P; the cost of the ticket covers insurance, event setup and ice.)