Expressing Gratitude for Being ALIVE
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My Story in a Nutshell
Open-Heart Surgery
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One Extra Life
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Wrote my Nobituary
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Unconditional Gratitude
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The BIG 6 Steps to Restore Integrity
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A community of people who realize that they are really lucky,
grateful to be alive,
and are looking for a way to keep that experience alive and express it,
every day!
JESSE’S STORY
I had been expecting this heart attack since 2008, and maybe before that too, yet it was still a surprise. My mother died of a heart attack in 1987 at the age of 50, her mother at the age of 52, and my brother at the age of 44 in 2008, the year I turned 50.
On May 16, 2022, I woke up with a strange set of pains between my shoulder blades, in my collar bones, neck, and left arm.
At first, I brushed it off and started out for work but decided to drive myself to the hospital instead. I walked into the emergency room and said, “I think I’m having a heart attack right now. “ I was admitted and scheduled for triple bypass surgery. It saved my life! I beat the odds, breaking a generations-old family history of early death from heart disease.
When I came out of anesthesia and realized that I had survived my open-heart surgery, I experienced a palpable, physical sensation of joy and gratitude like no other experience in my life. I was suddenly aware that I had filled the life I almost lost with petty complaints and almost constant upset. I saw that I had been living a life of resignation and disappointment. All of that disappeared in the moment of joy I experienced when I realized I now had a “new” life.
“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
~Buddha*
*No matter what your faith, this is a quote worth pondering!
Jesse James Turner
A few days after the surgery I did a zoom call with my siblings. As we spoke, it occurred to me that had things gone differently, they would have been having that call without me, making plans for my funeral, and writing my obituary. We always have a bonfire when somebody dies. I love that part of the celebration.
That was the moment I realized that I am now living my ONE EXTRA LIFE!
Instead of an obituary, I wrote a Nobituary. Not a description of a life once lived, but a statement of who I am now and a declaration of the future I am creating with my ONE EXTRA LIFE. The unbelievable experience of writing my nobituary was one of power, freedom, and complete gratitude for life. My understanding of time, synchronicity, focus, relationships — all of life — spun in my head. I formed a renewed commitment to live life fully, with integrity, financially, spiritually, and physically. No time for regrets and no time for procrastination.
You are reading this because you somehow stumbled onto this page. Whatever brings you here now, I challenge you to write your own nobituary. Guide your own life into a future of your creation. The nobituary that I wrote can be found HERE. If you would like to post yours after you write it, please join our Facebook group, One Extra Life, and post your own nobituary there. If you want help in writing or editing your nobituary, please go to the Contact Us page and reach out, I will work with you.
What This Page Is For
Besides me, there are other people who know that they
should be, could be, and probably would be DEAD,
except for one little thing that happened.
Things could have gone differently.
It was nothing short of a triumph over death itself.
My time was up, but I got an extension!
I was transformed! At that moment, I realized:
I got an extra life-
MY ONE EXTRA LIFE!
All the trivial complaints I had had about every aspect of life - my relationships, my job, my career, everything, faded into obscurity
for a few short weeks!
As I returned to daily life, life returned to normal.
But I want to keep that magical experience of unconditional gratitude alive!
If this resonates with you, please join us.
Join this community. Please share your stories, and provide hope and inspiration to others facing their own challenges.
Network together. Support one another.
I was living my ONE EXTRA LIFE!!!
It was like a honeymoon with everyone and everything.
What’s on your bucket list?
Ways to participate in this community:
Write your own Nobituary. On your own or with our support (Click HERE)
Join the free Facebook group HERE
Get your affairs in order. Don’t leave your loved ones guessing about your wishes if you become incapacitated or die. Click HERE for guidance.
Join us for Story Hour. Share your story, and listen to others. Participate! Check the schedule HERE.
The One Extra Life Club is a membership area for more extensive and full participation. Click HERE to explore membership. Membership features:
One Extra Life Marketplace is a forum for members to offer artwork, goods, and services and for members to buy those goods and services, share our talents and resources, save each other money, and make new possibilities available to each other.
Moderated Group Discussions. Members discuss their lives with others, comparing notes, and supporting each other, with topical and open sessions, moderated by skilled group leaders.
Individual and Group Coaching Sessions.
it's time to live life fully
now
it's time to live life fully now
The most important part of any transformation is to keep it alive, present, and growing in your life as a form of self-expression. It becomes a way of life. It becomes who you are. Practice, everyday. Surround yourself with artwork and symbols, jewelry, screensavers on your computer, reminders that help you keep it present. After my surgery, I began to see artwork by artists on Instagram whose art is inspired by their surgeries. It is a big deal to go through for everybody who does so. Let’s join in community and share our inspiration and joy, and support others whose challenges still lie ahead. If this calls to you, or you know others who may benefit, please join in, share, and grow this with me as a community.
I am not religious, and some people are. That’s okay. All are welcome here. We can share despite those differences. We can form groups by finding others to share within our religions, ignoring our religions, or comparing them (peacefully). This is, however, a place to check your politics at the door. We welcome all humans to be kind to each other without engaging in the polarizing debates we see in some political discussions.
Anyone can join:
Those who have literally (or figuratively) dodged a bullet
Cancer-patients-in-remission or in-treatment
Transplant recipients
Patients recovering from diseases and surgeries of all kinds
People released from incarceration
People triumphing over addictions
Survivors of grief choosing to return to their life after almost giving up
People pondering suicide but calling out for help instead
People facing any challenge and seeking support
People who want to participate simply because they want to!
This website is dedicated to keeping alive that magical time of
unconditional gratitude
that we experience when we are faced with
the loss of our own life. If you know, you know.
Are you ready for the
#nobituary challenge?
Download the free PDF template and get started writing your Nobituary. Make sure to share on the ONE EXTRA LIFE Facebook Group and use the hashtag #nobituary
so you can share your story with the community.