Embrace Your Mortality to Truly Live

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

New Year's resolutions? Overdone. Instead, imagine your deathbed. Inspired by a Wall Street Journal article on Panera Bread founder Ron Schaich, this episode explores the power of a premortem—a life audit that ensures you won’t wait until the end to decide if you’re proud of your life. From Buddhist teachings to Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks, I share how this practice reshaped my own priorities after a personal tragedy. What can you do in the next five years that you’ll respect looking back from your deathbed? Tune in for a perspective shift that just might change your life.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Cabin crew, prepare for landing.
0:02.6	Wow, that was a quick flight.
0:04.4	Never mind, Bondi Beach, barrier, reef, here we come.
0:07.8	Holiday of a lifetime, cannot wait.
0:10.2	Me neither.
0:12.5	Ladies and gentlemen, we'll shortly be landing in Austria.
0:16.1	Austria? We're supposed to be going to Australia.
0:19.6	What have you done?
0:21.9	Should have gone to Spec Savers.
0:23.8	Book an eye test online.
0:25.3	Has anyone got any long trousers I could borrow?
0:28.1	I've only got a bikini, Andy.
0:36.1	Hi, I'm your host, Dr. Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning at the Mental Mess.
0:41.9	Today we're going to talk about something really interesting and quite challenging and maybe
0:45.9	have a real emotional almost and that is how to do a pre-mortem on your life.
0:51.4	But before I dive in, I just want to ask you to please rate and review the show.
0:56.4	It really helps us to produce these podcasts and share with friends and family.
1:00.6	Here, guys, what I'm doing is helping you and me. So let's help each other.
1:03.8	And there's great topics and great things that you can use. So rate, review and share.
1:07.4	I'd really appreciate that. Okay, so let's dive in.
1:13.7	What do I mean by a premortem? I read this amazing article. It was so interesting. It was
1:20.3	an article in the Wall Street Journal by journalist Ben Cohen, and it really grabbed my attention,
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