On living like it matters - without waiting for a wake-up call

How many lives do you think you have?

Are you sure tomorrow always comes?

Then why do we hold back?

Why save $200 instead of visiting the country of your dreams?

Why spend time at a job that drains you?

Why stay silent about something you’ve wanted for years?

Why hide your heart from people who might actually understand it?

Why say no to connection, adventure, aliveness?

And why stay in relationships where you’re just background noise?

This is it.

This is your life.

Live like it matters.

Maybe you’ve heard this kind of talk before. Maybe you’ve nodded along, just like I used to.

I got it - logically.

But I didn’t feel it.

Not until my body broke.

It was an ordinary sunny day. My wife, some friends, and I went snowboarding - just another spontaneous ride through the trees, full of lightness and laughter. No signs, no warnings.

And then - a sudden fall.

Ten meters down, into a rocky crevice.

The world shifted.

I fractured my spine in three places.

There was a helicopter.

There was surgery.

Titanium plates in my back.

Days of immobility. Months of pain.

And then, slowly - step by fragile step - I began to return to life.

If you want to know what really happened that day - the fall, the silence, the rescue - I wrote the full story here:

The day everything broke open

That fall divided my life in two.

Before - and after.

When you feel death breathing down your neck, you stop assuming you’ve got all the time in the world. You stop thinking that “someday” is a guarantee. And when you realize you’ve been handed a second chance - a very real one - something shifts.

You begin to live differently.

You stop giving away your time and energy so carelessly.

You start saying “no” without guilt.

You speak up when something matters.

You let people in - the right ones.

You stop apologizing for choosing what you love.

You look at your life and whisper, not this time.

I won’t sleepwalk through it again.

But here’s the truth:

You don’t need a near-death experience to wake up.

You don’t have to lose everything to start paying attention.

You can begin now - from where you are.

Quietly. Intentionally. Without drama.

That’s what I’m doing.

And if any part of this speaks to you, maybe it’s your time, too.

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This is the beginning of a gentle reset - the “soft start” I wish someone had offered me earlier.

In the next post, I’ll talk about the strange, heavy feeling of being alive… but not really living.

You’ll see how easily it sneaks into even the most “normal” life.

And why that low-grade numbness might be the real danger.

Until then -

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