Your To-Die-For Life: How to Maximize Joy and Minimize Regret... Before Your Time Runs Out
By (Author) Karen Salmansohn
BenBella Books
BenBella Books
30th September 2025
22nd July 2025
United States
General
Non Fiction
Coping with / advice about death and bereavement
Paperback
224
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Want to make sure youre not just alive . . . but truly living Start by contemplating your own death.
Wondering what a life well-lived looks like Eager to live a life thats richer, bolder, and more unapologetically YOU Then its time to stop running from the truth that your life is finiteand start facing your mortality head-on.
Because nothing will motivate you to seize the day . . . more than realizing your days are numbered.
Karen Salmansohn, bestselling author of How to Be Happy, Dammit and a leading behavioral change expert went on her own Im-going-to-die journey. And it made her life better. Way better. So she began sharing these tools with her clients, and their lives also began to bloom in amazing ways.
Science backs up the perks of mortality awareness. Studies show that when you embrace the fact that your time is limited, you stop wasting energy on nonsenseand start making choices that align with your deepest values.
In Your To-Die-For Life, Salmansohn shares a wide range of practical, research-based toolsto help you to dismantle your fearsand step into the life you were meant to live. Youll discover how to:
Karen Salmansohn is a bestselling author (with 2 million books and courses sold), leading behavioral change expert, and columnist for Oprah and Psychology Today, as well as the founder of the popular personal development site NotSalmon.com, which has a vibrant community of 1.5 million followers. Shes been sparking transformations in individuals and companies for a few decades and is passionate about digging deep and finding fascinating insights, tools, and studies from all areas of life, including psychology, Eastern and Western philosophy, neuroscience, quantum physics, and more.
She began writing self-help for people who wouldnt be caught dead doing self help in 1999 with the bestseller How To Be Happy Dammitthe very first personal development book of its kind to have a feisty title, edgy humor, and stylish interior design, which paved the way for self-help authors to write irreverent personal development books. Since then, shes written many bestsellers, including The Bounce Back Book and Think Happy. Now shes excited to pioneer the mortality awareness movement by illuminating lifes most avoided conversationdeathand reminding others to live more bravely.