A Personal Note From Julie:

An honest question: When is the last time you asked yourself this very important question: Am I living a life I won't regret? Most of us never slow down long enough to ask that. Instead most of us go through our life on autopilot never stopping to reflect on our life and how we're living, until it's too late. In fact, research shows that one of people's biggest regrets on their deathbed is not being more reflective on their life and time sooner. Will YOU be one of them? I want to help change that. In my dad's honor, I'm on a mission to help change that. To get people reflecting on their life and making meaningful changes BEFORE it's too late.

Finding my dad's journal full of regrets while going through his things after he'd passed changed my entire perspective on living and dying. We have it wrong: WE SHOULDN'T BE AFRAID OF DYING; WE SHOULD BE AFRAID OF REGRETTING THE WAY WE LIVED! 

My dad's journal sparked a mission dear to my heart to want to live the rest of my life and time as meaningfully as possible while helping others do so too. It's inspired a movement (a book and a podcast) to help challenge us all to reflect on how we're currently living and be inspired to make meaningful changes BEFORE it's too late.

In my new book: Life is Short...Get to LIVING, I'm bringing you straight into my heart and sharing some of the most life-altering moments and lessons learned during my dad's dying days that have changed the way I live. (Lessons I think we often don't learn until it's too late.) The heartbreaking moments that I now cherish because they inspired a whole new, much deeper way of LIVING the rest of my life. They made me see things from a completely different perspective. There's something about dying that teaches us lessons for living in a way that nothing else can. Something shifts in you. It was another wake-up call to live more fully. I share how my dad's dying gave me the gift of LIVING more meaningfully every day.  

I'll share how I've learned to: 

Love More Deeply - Deeper Connection 
Impact More Positively - Deeper Compassion & Kindness
Value Time More Wisely - Deeper Priorities & Intention
I Love You's More Say - Deeper Expression & Forgiveness
New Things More Try - Deeper Courage & Resilience
Grateful More Every Day - Deeper Gratitude & Presence

I share simple, but powerful changes we can easily make in our regular daily lives to use help every day feel more meaningful and hopefully inspire you on your journey to have MORE LIVING and LESS REGRET. 

My dad's dying was another wake-up call to live more fully NOW. To make the most of our life and time right here, right now, now BEFORE it's too late. We can't control dying, but we can control LIVING! You only have a limited amount of time left on this earth. Don't take another precious day for granted. One of the lessons it taught me is we aren't guaranteed another birthday--or another day. Life is Short. Get to LIVING! (Before it's too late...) It's my hope that this new book with help you do just that and be a guide for helping you finish life strong. None of us knows how much time we have left. You don't know how much time you have left. That shouldn't scare you; it should inspire you to GET TO LIVING! Make the most of the life and time you have left! Don't fear dying; fear regret! 

You have ONE life. ONE  shot. How do you want to live your ONE precious life? Full of LIVING or full of REGRET? 

With all my love,
Julie  

ABOUT JULIE CLARK LINGEN:

Julie is a national award-winning, 2-time bestselling author on a mission to help others live more meaningfully NOW and have fewer regrets. Julie’s passion and urgency for life comes from learning she is living 50% at-risk for a cruel terminal illness that could start cutting her life short at any time. It has made her more determined than ever to live each day to the fullest and inspire others to do so as well with a reminder that LIFE IS SHORT for all of us. None of us knows what the future holds so we need to GET TO LIVING! Julie uses her own powerful personal story to challenge others to see life from a whole different perspective: We shouldn't be afraid of dying; we should be afraid of not fully LIVING. We can't control dying, but we can control LIVING. Our power lies in how meaningfully we live the time we are given. She has launched a mission dear to her heart to inspire others to reflect on their lives NOW and make meaningful changes, BEFORE it’s too late. It's a mission that has become even more important to her since being next to her dad during his dying days, and seeing that it's truly our regrets that cause us the most pain at the end of our lives. That life-changing experience with her dad has also been the inspiration for her upcoming book: Life is Short, Get to LIVING: Lessons We All Need to Hear Before It’s Too Late, where she shares the wisdom and lessons she learned from one of the most difficult times in her life and how it made her see living and dying from an entirely new perspective. Many people have said Julie has a life-changing message we all need to hear.

Julie is the author of a national award-winning book: Inspirational Coffee Breaks for Women: 12 Ground Rules for Pouring Your Heart into Life. It captured the hearts of readers across the country, becoming an Amazon.com bestseller and being named a finalist in the prestigious National Best Books Awards from USA Book News which honors the most outstanding books in the self-improvement genre. It also received the National Indie Excellence Award recognizing the "best of the best" in book publishing. It’s a dose of inspiration for the heart and soul. She is also a contributing author to the #1 bestselling book: Reach Your Greatness, where she and other authors share secrets to living an extraordinary life. 

Julie has been honored with the Young Women of Excellence Award from the Sales & Marketing Executives, Inc. of Sioux Falls, SD, given to celebrate women who influence the lives of other women with their integrity and accomplishments. She was also named the recipient of the Horizon Award from Augustana University, recognizing alumni who have made outstanding achievements in career and service to their community. Julie always enjoys new adventures and experiences, but there is no place she'd rather be than at home with her husband, Brad, and their two rescue cats. She enjoys spending a lot of time in nature as well as in her backyard, watching sunrises, sunsets, the beautiful flowers, the birds and squirrels and enjoying as much time as possible with family and friends. She lives in Sioux Falls, SD.