“Next month.”
The visit to your parents, the trip with your son, the call to that friend. Always next month. And next month fills up too.
Sound familiar?
Busy with what doesn’t matter
Your week has 168 hours. If you did the math, you’d be surprised how many go to screens, arguments and other people’s emergencies.
What goes unsaid
There’s something you haven’t told someone: a thank-you, an apology, an “I love you” you take for granted.
The birthday that hits hard
Another birthday, and you feel time speeding up. You couldn’t say where the last five years went.
The news
Someone your age gets sick or dies, and for a few days everything falls into place on its own. Then life goes back to the way it was.
The loss
Or you’ve already lost someone, and you don’t know what to do with the pain or with what was left unsaid.
It isn’t that life is short. It’s that we spend it as if it were infinite.
Why the Stoics
The Stoics didn’t talk about death to scare themselves. They talked about it to live better. It was their most powerful tool for putting priorities in order.
Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome, wrote in his notebook that he shouldn’t live as if he had ten thousand years to spend, and that while he lived, while he could, he should become good.
Seneca explained to his friend Lucilius that we are not given too little time; we lose too much of it, and that whatever part of our life lies behind us already belongs to death.
Epictetus, who was born a slave, taught his students to treat everything they love as a loan: to take care of it and be grateful for it while they have it.
“Don’t live as if you had ten thousand years to spend.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, IV, 17
What Memento Mori Is
A calm kit for using the memory of death as a standard for living. Nothing morbid: a method.
First you do the math: you enter your date of birth in the calculator and fill in your life calendar, one box per week. Then six short chapters, each with its exercise: life is not short · the part already gone · as if it were the last time · everything is on loan · when loss comes · closing each day.
You come away with your 168-hour week reviewed, your five priorities with days and times, the conversations you owe with dates, and three practices for life: the morning question, the evening examination and the Sunday ritual, when you mark one more box.
Remembering that it ends does three things: it sorts what matters, it lets go of what won’t weigh anything at the end, and it gives thanks for what you have while you have it.
Everything you get
Memento Mori isn’t a lone PDF: it’s a 8-piece kit, ready to download.
- I
The Memento Mori guide
Six chapters, six exercises, the three practices and the thirty days.
- II
Quick Start
2 pages
In five minutes you do the math almost nobody does.
- III
“Your Life in Weeks” life calendar
page size and poster size
The 4,680 weeks of ninety years, to mark and hang on the wall.
- IV
Calculator and tracker
Excel and Google Sheets
Weeks lived and weeks left from your date of birth, your life in weeks colored in automatically with your milestones, your 168 hours, your priorities with times, the visits left with your people, the thirty days and the Sunday ritual, with charts.
- V
Printable tracker
3 sheets
Priorities, thirty days and thirteen Sundays.
- VI
Pocket cards and poster
The “Memento Mori” card, six more cards and the “Sort · Let Go · Give Thanks” poster.
- VII
5 phone wallpapers
A Stoic line every time you pick up your phone.
- VIII
Commitment sheet and certificate
You sign on day 1 and fill in your certificate on day 30.
Everything arrives as downloadable files, in order, for your phone, your computer or on paper.
How it works
Three steps. The first one, today.
I
Today: the count
You open the calculator, enter your date of birth and see the weeks you’ve lived and the ones you have left.
II
Mark your calendar
You print “Your Life in Weeks,” fill in the years you’ve lived, mark your milestones and hang it where you’ll see it. Then you sign your commitment.
III
Six chapters and three habits
One chapter a day, none longer than twenty minutes. After that, the question every morning, the review every night and one more box every Sunday.
Who it’s for, and who it isn’t
It’s for you if…
- The man who feels the years going by and can’t say where they went.
- The man with people, a piece of work or a conversation he keeps leaving for later.
- The man who wants to sort his priorities by a standard that isn’t up for negotiation.
- The man who has lost someone and is looking for a calm, dignified way to carry it.
It’s not for you if…
- The man looking for dark quotes to feel deep for a while.
- The man who wants a “live to the max” of excess: Stoic memento mori is the opposite.
- The man who expects the kit to change his schedule without his putting a time on anything.
Your copy
One payment. You download it today and it’s yours.
Vol. 14 · Black Edition
Memento Mori · the complete kit
- The Memento Mori guide
- Quick Start
- “Your Life in Weeks” life calendar
- Calculator and tracker
- Printable tracker
- Pocket cards and poster
- 5 phone wallpapers
- Commitment sheet and certificate
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What format is it in?
Everything is digital and you download it from the Hotmart download email. The texts and printable sheets come as PDFs; the tracker is an Excel file (.xlsx) that also opens in Google Sheets; the phone wallpapers are high-resolution PNG images.
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As soon as your payment is confirmed, Hotmart sends you an email with the link to download the kit. There’s no platform to log into and no classes to follow: you download the files once and they’re yours to keep.
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Yes. The PDFs are made for printing at home (A4; on US Letter paper, choose “Fit to page”). The cards are ready to cut out. If you’d rather not print anything, everything works on screen too.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. The PDFs read well on any phone, and the tracker works in the free Google Sheets or Excel apps. The wallpapers are sized exactly for your phone.
How much time does it take?
No chapter takes longer than twenty minutes. After that, one question every morning, a short review every night and a few minutes every Sunday.
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Your weeks go by the same whether you look at them or not. Looking doesn’t shorten them: it makes them yours.
One box per week. Five priorities with a time. A conversation you stop putting off.
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