When Timely Becomes Timeless

Commuting to a practice sessions with Seu Jacobi,
Parc del Segre, La Seu d’Urgell, Catalunya

1. Greet people warmly where you are in this moment.
2. Remind yourself of — and then CONNECT with — the “Why?” that brought you to here.
3. Listen to a trusted friend to give you an “outside-looking-in” perspective on your life.
4. Think back to a peak experience and offer quiet gratitude for lessons you learned.
5. Plant a fresh seed. Give love and space for it to grow. Add water too.
6. Move yourself as close as humanly possible to the epicenter of the work and people you REALLY love.
7. That peak experience you remembered a moment ago? Release it so that you can look ahead.
8. Learn a new skill that challenges you AND transports you.
9. Find, daily, an opportunity to serve an idea, help another, make a positive difference — big or small.

When a national television network came to La Seu d’Urgell to capture my life in Catalunya as it is today, the production team used that sequence to build the story. Watch the video to follow all points 1–9.

Click HERE to see the video.

The thing is, when my all-around health plummeted, I could have used this exact sequence to nudge me into the first of many small steps that eventually would have transformed my life.

Such a sequence reaches us exactly where we are. No matter where we are.

Simple guidance is not only timely — it is timeless.

With gratitude,

-Joe

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