Reflecting on your mortality (Memento Mori) can be an important motivator for living your life at 110% with purpose. Show Notes: Reflecting on your mortality can be an important motivator for living your life at … Reflecting on your mortality can give life urgency, perspective, and purpose Read More »

Reflecting on your mortality can be an important motivator for living your life. Today, Dr. Tim Jordan talks about death and mortality. He emphasizes the value of reflecting on your mortality in giving life urgency, perspective, and purpose. He discusses the ancient practice of reflection on mortality. Join Dr. Tim in this reflective episode about life and death.
SHOW NOTES:Reflecting on your mortality can be an important motivator for living your life at 110%; triggered by an article from Dailystoic.com about a concept called Memento Mori—the ancient practice of reflection on mortality that goes back to Socrates.
Write your own eulogy. How do you want people to remember you after you’ve passed? What’s important? What do you value most? Good husband, father, role model, be of service.
Write out your mission statement.
Use these tools to begin with the end in mind to guide your decisions.
I encourage parents to begin with the end in mind with activities; do with kids so you all decide what’s important and what you value & use that to guide decisions about activities, schools, etc.
Practice daily Memento Mori—the ancient practice of reflection on mortality.
Use this to create a perspective, a sense of urgency, to not put off important things and relationships.
Write out your eulogy to give your life more meaning & purpose help you to prioritize your actions.
Be conscious about how you spend your time. It’s easy to waste hours on social media; adults spend about 10,000 hours a year on social media.
Read books, have more time in nature, have deep conversations, learn an instrument, journal, write a book, art, send thank-you notes, gratitude, personal growth, and nonfiction books.
Take more risks.
Develop a habit of practicing Memento Mori each day.

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Having the autonomy to choose college and focusing on how they use their university experience will allow women to get the most from their experience. We should debunk the myth that you must go to an elite college to be successful despite pressures from the education system, teachers, colleges, and the culture. We also need to reframe the belief that there is one path to success, i.e., straight A’s, top college, top job, and making a lot of money. Dr. Tim Jordan explains why it is more important to ask the WHY and HOW you go to college rather than WHERE before you send your kids to college.
SHOWNOTES:

• Learn how to ask girls why they love what they do, i.e. color, draw, soccer, and theater, then reflect on their feelings and thoughts so they internalize them as their intrinsic motivation.
• Supporting their intrinsic motivation throughout childhood sets kids up to think for themselves and go inward to know what’s best for them.
• What matters are “how well you use the university you go” and “what you demand of it.” Focus on using those years to come of age, bust out of your comfort zone, try new subjects and activities, reinvent yourself, travel abroad vs. recreate your high school experience, expand yourself, and be open to change and growth.
• What is harder to measure but far more important is a young adult’s level of grit, optimism, integrity, people skills, street smarts, stamina, determination, engagement in jobs or internships or hobbies and passions; thus, be aware of what you are focusing on and where you put your energy.
• Teach your kids that WHY they are choosing a college is more important than where they end up. “HOW they do their college experience” is also more valuable than the name of the university. Have the courage to swim against the tide of parents and an educational system obsessed with the elite college myth.
• Encourage teens to be the architect of their college experience, do it their way & for their reasons & focus less on names across sweatshirts.
• Invictus, William Ernest Henley
• It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Go to Dr. Jordan’s website right now and order his book, Letters From My Grandfather: Timeless Wisdom For a Life Worth Living, and give it to your teenager or young adult for more insights into finding their calling and creating the life they were meant to live.
It is available in both print or e-book formats, Kindle and Print versions.

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Listen in as expert Kirsten Karchmer discusses how to help girls better understand their periods & how to better manage them; BTW, boys need this education too Show Notes: Guest: Kirsten Karchmer: Kirsten is an … Menstruation 2.0: How to educate girls about their periods Read More »

Guest: Kirsten Karchmer: Kirsten is an Integrative medicine practitioner and researcher with extensive experience in biomedical sciences, functional medicine, nutrition and digital health, and mechanisms of mind-body healing; Kirsten has spent her entire adult career in the service of women's health and has helped over 10,000 women over the last 20 years to improve their health, cycles, and fertility More than 82% of women report significant and life interrupting menstrual pain; nearly every person with a period thinks that suffering with your period is normal. They don’t really believe that anything can change that, and that suffering is the lot that you must bear as women and menstruators. During her more than twenty years of research and treating thousands of patients, Karchmer found that most period problems women experience—even the most painful ones—are totally correctable and more surprisingly reflective of overall health and fertility PMS, cramping, bloating, migraines, irritability, and anxiety may be extremely common, but contrary to popular belief, they aren’t normal. And they certainly aren’t “just part of being a woman” Shame and ignorance surround women’s periods; girls often don’t feel safe talking about them with their parents or even their friends We discussed the way parents can make it safe for girls to talk about their periods starting in early childhood; make it a topic that has no energy or shame around it, have dad be nurturing to mom when she is on her period, openly display tampons etc. Boys need to be educated about why periods are healthy and an important part of being a woman; they also need to be empowered to stand up for girls if their friends are ridiculing them about their periods Contact guest: www.foreverbrazen.com/pages/conceivablescore [email protected] Her new book Seeing Red from Simon and Schuster, breaks down old myths, discusses the importance of a healthy menstrual cycle and how to achieve it Kirsten has a Tiktok community of a quarter of a million daughters who come on her live show and chat with Kirsten about their concerns about puberty & periods Contact host Dr. Jordan: www.drtimjordan.com  If you’d like more info on how to create a safe environment so that girls will share more with you, click on this link to sign up for Dr. Jordan’s online course, Parenting girls: The challenges girls face today with their feelings and friends and what they need

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Finding your calling: be open to dots, follow your urges, and your life will unfold in its own way and in its own time SHOW NOTES: Pressure to follow one prescribed path Kids are being … My Dot Theory describes the secret to finding your purpose & calling Read More »

My dot theory will help young people find their calling without the unnecessary stress placed on them to have it all figured out by age 18.  

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Listen to these fascinating stories to learn how to best support your daughter’s dreams Show notes: How can you support your children’s dreams and not squish them with practicality? How do parents discourage children’s dreams? … Is Your Daughter the Next Beyonce? How to support her dreams Read More »

Listen to these fascinating stories to learn how to best support your daughter's dreams.   Go to www.drtimjordan.com to get more resources on helpful ways to raise your daughter.

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Listen in as adolescent addictions counselor Rick Capriola discusses why kids use substances, signs of use, and how to get them the treatment they need. Show notes: Questions answered in this podcast What substances are … Is Your Daughter Getting High? Here’s how to tell and how to support her Read More »