Time, Purpose, and Pressure - Living with Intent

The Quiet Deal I Made With LifeThere’s something I’ve carried with me for most of my life…A belief I formed when I was young.A promise I made to myself… that I wouldn’t live past 45.Not out of fear… but out of purpose.Growing up in an RDP house with limited resources shaped how I saw the world early. Time didn’t feel unlimited. Opportunities didn’t feel guaranteed. And somewhere along the way, I decided that if I lived well, built something meaningful, and did right by people… then I wouldn’t need to grow old.45 felt like enough.Enough time to learn.Enough time to build.Enough time to leave something behind.But also early enough to leave before decline… before losing control… before becoming a version of myself I wouldn’t respect.This episode unpacks where that belief came from… how it shaped the way I live… and what happens when the people around you start challenging something you’ve never questioned.Because this isn’t just about a number.It’s about the quiet agreements we all make with ourselves…and whether we’re living intentionally…or just following rules we wrote when we didn’t fully understand life yet.Music: “Cylinder Five” by Chris ZabriskieLicensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://chriszabriskie.com http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/