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Reinvent Your One Wild and Precious Life

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”- Mary Oliver

This visual assistant helps us visualize 2 futures: our default future and our invented future.

The premise of the visual assistant is that you can give a numerical rating to each of the 8 important areas of your life 
1. Family
2. Physical health
3. Professional
4. Finances
5. Spiritual
6. Relationships
7. Hobbies
8. Community Service

By plotting the current state (our default future) and our future state (our invented future), we can more easily see the gap and create the possibility of reinventing the future that we want. 

Try this visual assistant. You can move the round buttons horizontally to reflect your numerical assessment of where you are (for the current) to where you want to be (for the invented future)

At the bottom of it, you can download a picture or image of your ratings- that you can use as a guide  to Reinvent Your Future now.

You Only Get One Wild Life. So What Will You Do With It?

Most people do not fail because they lack talent.
They fail because they drift.

Days pass. Weeks pass. Years pass.

Then one day you wake up and realize you have been busy, but not building what matters.

That’s why this line from poet Mary Oliver hits so deep. From her poem, The Summer Day:

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Notice the word plan.

Not wish.
Not hope.
Not someday.

Plan.

Because a plan turns a life from accidental to intentional.

Why “One Wild and Precious Life” Matters

This quote is not just poetry. It is a leadership question.

It asks you to face three realities:

Your time is limited. Delay has a cost.
Your life is valuable. Your gifts were meant to be used.
Your choices shape your legacy. Not your intentions. Your actions.

If you do not decide what matters most, the world will decide for you.

Other Inspiring Quotes About Living Only Once

If you want more lines that carry the same urgency and purpose, here are timeless ones:

“We live but once in this world; and when gone, are gone from it for ever.” (Samuel Richardson, Clarissa)
“You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.” (Joe E. Lewis, often misattributed to Mae West)
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” (Helen Keller)
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” (Seneca)
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” (Steve Jobs)
“Only one life, ’twill soon be past; only what’s done for Christ will last.” (C. T. Studd, “Only One Life”)
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost…” (Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living)