A Thirty Thousand Day Life With Carly Taylor

0:00Hi everyone and welcome to this week's Mojo Monday. So I had a birthday recently. I have been on this earth for 57 years and one week, but at the time of this recording. And there's a calculation I was introduced to about 10 years ago when I was studying in the US, I was studying Japanese psychology. And what it is is an estimate of how many days you've got left to live. So you take a roughly a life of 30,000 days and you subtract the number of days that you've already lived and what's left are basically the days that you have left. It's a bit of a reality check. Greg Creach who I studied Japanese psychology under, he shares a birthday week with me and he does the same calculation on his birthday and he writes about it most years in the 30,000 days newsletter that the total institute put out. And that's what's

1:06reminded me of this time. So first of all, you work out how many days you've lived and there are a few ways to do this. The easiest and fastest is to actually ask chat GPT because it'll work it out for you almost instantaneously. You can also go to a website called timeandate.com, which is free and you plug in your birthday and then today's date and it'll tell me tell you how many days it's been that you've been living. And then you just subtract that number from 30,000 and what's left is roughly how many days you have left to live. So for me, that is around 9,174 days give or take. So obviously that number's gone down since I first worked it out 10 years ago. And of course, none of us know when our time is up. The calculation is, it's definitely not a prediction. It's a reminder that there is a number, even if we don't know what it is. And that's what this exercise is really, what makes it really useful.

2:11It's a lot harder to waste a day when you can put a rough figure on how many you've got left. Having this knowledge can help shape the choices that we make each day. So that might look like spending time with the people that we love instead of scrolling on our phones or answering the call even when we're too tired to talk or ringing somebody out of the blue just to hear their voice. It might mean choosing food that nourishes us even when junk food would be a lot easier or taking risks without any certainty that it's going to work out. Or today, the sun is shining and the warmth of it is there when you pause for a moment and really feel that warmth on your skin. Blossoms are starting to appear and most days I see ducks hanging out on the grass which I know will soon have little ducklings following them everywhere. And this morning my barista made the best coffee which I fully enjoyed before starting work.

3:17And I had a meaningful chat with a gym friend who's going through a really stressful medical condition right now. You know, all these things, they're not big things in their life. They're small daily things that are there in front of us and we can easily miss them. If we don't turn our attention to them, living fully isn't one huge decision. It's a small, it's hundreds of small choices that we make every day. So we have finite days on this planet and some of us are faced with massive challenges and others with smaller ones. But whatever the intensity, there are still moments to really enjoy if you allow yourself to. So have a great week everyone. I'll catch you next week. See ya!