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How to Transform Your Life By Visualizing Your Death
A quick, simple visualization exercise to help you define your legacy and live life to the fullest, starting right now
You make your way from your seat at the back of an old church, past the rows of pews, the grieving people in dark suits and dark dresses, and the toddlers, swinging their feet, pacified by playing on Mom’s phone, to the casket at the altar. It’s open. You look in.
And lying peacefully on the pillowy, red silken lining is a body.
Your body.
Or, at least, it used to be. You’re at your own funeral. You’re watching it. And you take an empty seat there in the front row as your spouse walks somberly up to the microphone and tells that story about the time you got stuck in the rain and how you laughed and how you danced and didn’t have a care in the world and that’s when they knew.
You were the one.
And then your best friend steps to the stage and tells a story about that time you were there for them — really, there. And then maybe a sibling, then someone you worked with, one of your kids.
What do you want them to say about you?
