Live every day like it’s your last. (Frankly, terrible advice.)

Suleika Jaouad’s cancer has returned for the third time.

I’m sure that prompts people to give all sorts of well-intentioned advice.

“Live every day like it’s your last.”

According to Suleika, this is terrible advice.

“It’s exhausting to live every day like it’s your last.

To carpe diem the crap out of everything.

It would be chaos.

We would be cheating on our spouse and emptying our bank account.

Instead, I had to shift to a gentler mindset and 

Live every day as if it were my first.

Wake up with the sense of pure, uninhibited creative freedom.”

Her suggestion: Instead of living like it’s your last, live life as a series of “tiny acts of creative alchemy”.

Yeeeesss. It sounds much more peaceful to intentionally live with child-like wonder.

One strategy is based on fear.
The other on awe and amazement.