Don’t get caught forgetting to live for today because you’re chasing planning tomorrow. #experience

How old are your parents? Tom said, 70 years old. He said, where do they live? State of Washington. Well, Tom lives in Los Angeles. Jesse said, well, how many times a year do you get to see him? Tom said, one to three. Said, all right, well, let's imagine your parents live to be the average age of an American, 80 years old. They lived 10 more years, and we'll split the difference. You see your parents twice a year. You think you have 10 more years left with your parents if they live to be 80, but you don't. You only get to see them twice a year. You only have 20 experiences with them left.

And Tom was floored. But listening, I can tell you, as somebody listen to that podcast, it was as if Jesse Itzler's words punched me in the gut. Because I realized with my parents in their mid-70s, Amy's mom in her early 70s, it is about experiences, not years. And. And that was one thing we really, really have come to learn over the last couple years.