Living As If

A dear old pal of mine, Dave deBronkart, survived a very scary bout with kidney cancer last year inspiring all of his friends in the process. He is now doing great health-wise and loving his new role as an "E-Patient" advocate (my series on HealthCare 2.0 next week will include several mentions from Dave's E-Patient blog ). Dave also has a Google list he calls "Living As If Your Life Depended on It" which talks about living with added meaning.  I would like to take a leaf from his book and borrow part of his phrase to apply in a slightly different way.

I want to suggest starting right now, that we as a nation live "As If" we were already OK, and then keep that image in mind each day.

 

I don't mean casting back to the days of shopping until we dropped (if you ever did) or counting your extra money (if you ever made some) or sampling the best food and wine you can try. I mean casting ahead to where you -- as a person -- want to be when we finish this long march towards our recovery, and then living as if you are already there.

 

What do you intend to be doing with more prudence and less haste? Where will you be more sensitive or less driven? What will you simplify in your life to feel less burdened? Where do you plan to take more responsibility for how things work out? Where will you contribute to something larger than your own needs?

 

Whatever you imagine will be your new, better country and your new, better self in it, please keep that image near the front of your mind every day. It can be our own national version of "fake it until you make it."

 

It also has a much stronger chance of coming true that way.

Comments

[e-Patient Dave]

Well, "Living as if your life depended on it" was definitely my intent when I set up that blog, a year ago this month. In the training I've taken over the years at Landmark Education, they talk about authenticity: being fully present in the moment. In my experience, that's what we do when we fully get that our lives depend on that moment.

Caution on "fake it until you make it": while I'm a well-practiced advocate of visualizing a future, it can be imprudent to lose touch with current reality. More than once I've unintentionally pictured myself on the other side of a busy street, bypassing the key steps of being aware of my surroundings while I move there. :)

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