{"id":191,"date":"2017-01-03T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journohq.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2020-05-25T21:46:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T03:16:18","slug":"obituary-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journohq.com\/blog\/obituary-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obituary Exercise &#8211; Live The Life You Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.journohq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Obituary-Exercise_Blog-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.journohq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Obituary-Exercise_Blog-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.journohq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Obituary-Exercise_Blog-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.journohq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Obituary-Exercise_Blog-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.journohq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Obituary-Exercise_Blog-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.journohq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Obituary-Exercise_Blog-2-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.journohq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Obituary-Exercise_Blog-2-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>If we offered you a crystal ball to peer into your future, to find out exactly how your life would be laid out, would you \u0003take it?<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t have that. We have something better because what follows puts you \u0003in the driver\u2019s seat before it\u2019s too late and all in hindsight.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s going to take some kahunas \u0003because you\u2019re going to have to face \u0003your own death. This obituary exercise comes from our friend Roz Savage\u2019s technique on getting more \u0003of what YOU want out of life <em>while you still can<\/em>.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journohq.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Obituary-Exercise.pdf\"><strong>*****Click to Download The Obituary Exercise*****<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have no doubt that going through this exercise is a LIFE CHANGER. \u00a0It was the beginning to Roz becoming an ocean rowing world record holder (multiple times) and even the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year!<br \/>Please take the time to go through this on your own&#8230; who knows where you&#8217;ll end up!<br \/>&#8212;<br \/>For more information and to keep up to date with Roz&#8217;s adventures, visit:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rozsavage.com\/\"><strong>rozsavagecoaching.com\/courage\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we offered you a crystal ball to peer into your future, to find out exactly how your life would be laid out, would you \u0003take it? We don\u2019t have that. We have something better because what follows puts you \u0003in the driver\u2019s seat before it\u2019s too late and all in hindsight. But it\u2019s going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-obituary-exercise"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Obituary Exercise - Live The Life You Dream<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If we offered you a crystal ball to peer into your future, to find out how your life would go, would you take it? 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