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What if remembering that you’ll die could help you finally start living? Jodi Wellman joins Adam Coelho to explore memento mori, the 4,000 Mondays framework, and practical ways to stop postponing a life that feels wide, deep, and astonishingly alive.

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## Key takeaways

- Why awareness of mortality can motivate more intentional, meaningful living
- How unfulfilled dreams became Jodi’s personal wake-up call
- Why fear, comfort, busyness, and all-or-nothing thinking keep us stuck
- How counting your remaining Mondays creates useful “temporal scarcity”
- How to identify “pre-grets” and turn them into dated actions
- Why small doses of novelty can interrupt routines and restore vitality
- How awareness, intention, and action work together to create change
- Why financial independence can still lead to “one more year syndrome”
- How to assess whether your life needs more width, depth, or both
- Why low-risk mini experiments can help you press the go button

## Chapters

00:00 Meet Jodi Wellman
03:29 A mortality wake-up call
10:46 Count your Mondays
14:45 Turning pre-grets into action
17:13 Do it while you still can
21:19 Small choices that make life feel alive
22:58 When routines become autopilot
32:36 Awareness, intention, and action
35:38 FIRE and one-more-year syndrome
41:43 Living wider and deeper
48:46 The Mindful FIRE Final Four

## Resources mentioned

Jodi Wellman and Four Thousand Mondays: https://fourthousandmondays.com/?utm_source=mindfufire.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=podcast-with-adam

Monday Calculator and resources: https://fourthousandmondays.com/resources/?utm_source=mindfufire.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=podcast-with-adam

Jodi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fourthousandmondays/?utm_source=mindfufire.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=podcast-with-adam

You Only Die Once: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jodi-wellman/you-only-die-once/9780316574273/

## About the show

The Mindful FIRE podcast is a show about crafting a life you love and making work optional using mindfulness, financial independence, resilience and envisioning.