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DTH-X-0025

“The doctor gave me a number and now I can't breathe.”

The number on the chart did not change what was always true — it only made you look. Death was coming before the appointment and it is coming for everyone in that waiting room. You have not been handed a sentence. You have been handed the clarity most people die without. Use it.

Your Practice

  1. Today, separate the panic from the plan. Panic is the body. The plan is yours to write.
  2. Name the three things that would have to happen for you to call this time well-spent.
  3. Say the unsaid thing to the one person it's owed to — before the strength to say it goes.
  4. Tomorrow, do one of the three. Not someday. The someday account is closed.

The Architects

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations II.11