Living Like You Mean It: The Bhutanese Way

Your action today: Pause and appreciate something temporary in your life right now.

Here's the thing about life, nothing lasts forever, and that's not depressing, it's liberating.

A few years back, I trekked through the serene valleys of Bhutan, the happiest country on earth. I even had breakfast with His Majesty the Druk Gyalpo Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. Whilst we living in the West world chase profit (GDP), Bhutan measures Gross National Happiness (GNH). They've cracked a code we're only just beginning to understand.

Our Bhutanese guide, Linley Dorji, said something that stuck with me: "To find contentment, embrace impermanence, it slows your pace. In the West, minds leap like monkeys from branch to branch, never resting."

In Bhutan, conversations about life's temporary nature are as common as the mountain breeze. Far from breeding anxiety, this awareness fosters profound liberation.

Steve Jobs captured it perfectly: "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

As you read this digest, you're either moving towards better health or away from it. There's no standing still. Right now, in this moment, you control which direction that is.

You're not hoping for change, you are change.

Every meal is a choice. Every thought shapes your reality.

The glass isn't half empty or half full, for many years to come it's refillable by you.