How a Memento Mori Life Calendar Can Change Your Life

So simple, yet so powerful

Prakash Joshi Pax
3 min readNov 28, 2021

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Memento Mori is a Latin phrase for “Remember, you must die”. This sounds to be simple, yet it is profoundly powerful. Knowing you are gonna die soon is one of the most powerful concepts that you can use to let go of the small things and focus on what truly matters. It teaches you to turn attention away from the distractions and focus on what truly matters.

“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life.” Seneca would say, “Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.”

It is a simple practice of reflection on mortality that has been practiced for centuries.

To some people, this might sound like a scary and awful idea. Who wants to think of death instead of enjoying life? But what if we shift our perspective. Embrace the truth that I’m gonna die eventually and reflect on it to live to our fullest.

As Montaigne said:

“To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”

What is Memento Mori Life Calendar

Memento Mori Life Calendar
Credit: Stoics Reflection

The Memento Mori life calendar is a visual representation of our life. It helps to visualize our life in weeks. It consists of a row with 52 weeks and a column which is used to represent the total years you live.

How Can Memento Mori Life Calendar Help You?

The Memento mori life calendar can help you live your life to the fullest. If you want to leave this place better than what you found, it will serve as a catalyst. It will be a game-changer for you.

All the little things you worry about, all the things you are afraid to do will melt away in the face of death. The habit of putting things away, fear of failure will go away once you realize that you don’t have all the time.

How to Use Memento Mori Life Calendar…

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Prakash Joshi Pax

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