I thought I was going to die
I’ve always asked, “Have you had your heart attack today?” A mental exercise to force perspective and resets expectations. Unfortunately people only see their true priorities, when they are forced to by a tragic event or close call — an existential crisis. A great examples of this came Francis Cobain after she thought her Air France A380 was about to crash in September 2017.
A week ago on September 30th I boarded Air France flight A380 (the irony being I changed my previously booked flight to this one that very day, so I could get home earlier.) This would act as the moment that would alter everything I thought I knew. I have woken up everyday for the past week just grateful to wake up. When I felt the plane tilt, saw the wing directly in front of me catch fire, and basically came to grips with my own mortality I made a deal with myself. I promised myself that if I made it through, that I would no longer try to escape the moments of my life. I would no longer indulge in societal cliches & I would let the people I love know how much I love them everyday. Thinking I would never see my mom or my boyfriend or my grams or my pets or my friends again, sparked a renaissance of the soul / mind / body / spirit. So I’ve entered the phase of my life where every moment is truly precious. All the mundane “crippling” anxieties I once let dictate how I functioned have dissipated. I was jolted awake and awake is where I need to stay in order to live authentically. As cheeseball as that sounds. It resonates at true. To me. As you were – FBC Twitter
This simply reminds of us the scope of problems the world can dish out to recalibrate our perspective of the problems we have confronting us. Hopefully, you’ve not have a heart attack, but when you are on the proper path, when a close call or tragic event occurs there will be no thought of regret, of not doing a certain thing or being a certain way, as no changes are required. Related is goal amplification, whereby you take a measurable goal and and multiply it by a large factor. TSuch as if you want to increase your sales by $100K/year, make it $1M, if you want to help 100 people make it a thousand…. You’re only going to get what you ask, no more, so if you start out with more you increase your chances of success.