ABOUT THE BOOK

Are you really living before you die? 

Forget the idea that death is morbid and start using it as your greatest motivation to live your best life while you’re still alive. Whether your dream is to quit your job, travel the world, be more present with your children or partner, or just really enjoy your life, remembering that you might die tomorrow is the perspective you need to really live before you die.

This book offers stories, studies, and strategies to help you face your fear of death and light the fire in your gut to live your most authentic life. 

• How Kate went from living paralyzed in fear of death to making friends with it and finding her personal meaning and urgency to live

• How to use the psychology of mortality awareness to hack your fear of death

• The life prioritization exercise and deathbed meditation that will help you zero in on how you want to live and give you the motivation to start living it today

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Hi, I'm Kate Manser and I’m just so happy to be alive.

I’m the creator of YOU MIGHT DIE TOMORROW. Here’s my story.

In the span of six months, three friends died in unrelated, unexpected tragedies. I developed a fear of death that began to take over my life: I would imagine getting hit as I crossed an intersection, envision how the phone call would go when I got the news that my mom died, and avoided taking any risks out of fear.

A year later, my colleague and adventure idol Dan Fredinburg was killed at 33 years old in the Nepal earthquake while climbing Mount Everest. As I struggled to make sense of the loss, I realized that he knew he might die climbing that mountain, but that he had to climb it to truly live.

Everything changed for me: I realized that I have absolutely no control over when or how I die -- but I have complete control over how I live until that mystery moment comes.

All of the energy I spent on my fear of dying was channeled instead into living every day like I might die tomorrow.

Since then, I have made major shifts in my life to better align with how I want to live. I left my job at Google to embark on a two-year trip to learn about the world, life, and myself. I created YOU MIGHT DIE TOMORROW and wrote a book about everything I have learned.

But no shift has been as radical as my shift in life perspective: I live urgently, love wildly, and am so grateful to be alive.

I created YOU MIGHT DIE TOMORROW to help people like you really live before you die. The movement is now made up of thousands of people around the world.

Life is beautiful. Join me in celebrating every day we have breath in our chests.

With love,
-kate the great

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