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A few of @BenNemtin + @theburiedlife's #BucketList:

19. Write a @nytimes bestselling book✅
47. Set a @GWR ✅
95. Shoot hoops with @BarackObama ✅

What inspired this journey? How YOU can create a bucket list?

🎧:http://bit.ly/nemtin336

19h

You have $10M + anything is possible. What's 100 things you want to do before you die?

This is exactly how @BenNemtin + @theburiedlife started their #bucketlist quest.

Learn more:
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Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2RENGqQ
Web: http://bit.ly/nemtin336

27 Feb

Are you motivated to thrive after hearing @bennemtin's epic #bucketlist quest?

Use these steps to create yours:
1⃣Develop an initial list
2⃣Share goals with others
3⃣Break bigger items into tangible steps

🎧http://bit.ly/nemtin336

26 Feb

Isolated + depressed, @BenNemtin rediscovered a zest for life that brought him + 3 friends on a 14-year bucket list quest.

This #LiveInspired Podcast episode will motivate you..

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Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2RENGqQ
Web: http://bit.ly/nemtin336

In 2006, @bennemtin and three childhood friends st

25 Feb

A few of @BenNemtin + @theburiedlife's #BucketList:

19. Write a @nytimes bestselling book✅
47. Set a @GWR ✅
95. Shoot hoops with @BarackObama ✅

What inspired this journey? How YOU can create a bucket list?

🎧:http://bit.ly/nemtin336

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In 2006, Ben Nemtin and three childhood friends started The Buried Life: a list of 100 things to do before you die. For every item on the list they accomplished, they helped a stranger cross something off their bucket list.

Ben has crossed off 93 including write The New York Times bestselling book What Do You Want to Do Before You Die?, make a TV show, be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey (who called their mission “truly inspiring") and play basketball with Barack Obama (who said Ben is an “inspiration for a new generation”).

Today, Ben shares what inspired the bucket list quest, its impact on millions to thrive personally and professionally and the practical steps you can take to create your bucket list today.

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6 days ago

The dreams we chase, the goals we set, and the prayers we request say much about the lives we lead.

I was reminded of this during an emotional visit with my new friend, Gerard Fleming, last week.

The first time I was introduced to the Fleming family was this past September. A mutual friend shared that they were in the midst of a family tragedy. Their three-year-old son had somehow gotten out of the house, snuck into the pool area, fallen in, and was unable to get out. By the time the little boy was discovered, he was unresponsive.

At that time, little Ambrose was on life-support and in need of a miracle.

The following morning my mom called to share the Fleming’s story with me. And then several more friends called to share, too.

This little boy was incredibly sick, desperately in need of a miracle and everyone who heard was spreading the word of this little boy and his family.

So, we prayed. And we hoped... And we ached for his family to receive the gift they so desperately pleaded.

The entire time following updates online.

We learned about the brain swelling, CT scans and significant health decline. Some updates were expansive medically, while others were simply pictures of the family. One picture was of Ambrose’s Mom holding him. There was a picture of Gerard napping next to his son in a hospital bed. There was a beautiful picture of Ambrose surrounded by his siblings. They were reaching toward him, holding his hands, grasping his little feet, praying for their little brother.

After a week of these emotional, vulnerable updates, shedding tears, offering prayers, feeling helpless and trying to remain hopeful, we received the following update from Ambrose's Dad.

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Susan and I are so grateful to everyone out there for being behind Ambrose and joining in our prayers. We know many of you have been praying for us and sending Christ to us through your prayers. Those prayers have been immensely helpful to us.

Many of us were praying for the miracle of Ambrose returning to his healthy self again. We were praying for the gift of life.

I believe we have received that miracle.

Ambrose is in his glorified body as another Saint Ambrose. He lives eternally in heaven with Christ.

Christ gave up his life so that we could live eternally. Our little Saint Ambrose is mimicking Christ. We have decided to donate his organs to children whose parents are themselves praying for a miracle. Through Ambrose, God will answer the prayers of these hopeful parents.

Your prayers, love, and support have made the difference.

You have helped Susan and I to remain strong in our trust of God and to make faithful decisions. Your prayers and love have held us up when we wanted to fall. You have helped us carry and embrace our heavy cross.

Please join us now in praying for the successful transplantation of Ambrose's organs, and the full recovery of those children who will receive them. We will share in the joy of knowing our Ambrose is part of bringing life, love, and joy to others.

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My friends, what can I say?

A dad's heart was broken. A mother will never again hold her son. Siblings will never play with their little brother. The entire tragedy is so sad it’s almost unbearable.

And yet.

And yet...

These amazing parents chose to offer up their pain for a cause even greater than themselves.

They accepted that although their little boy won’t live, his death might provide hope to other children and other families.

During the hardest time in their lives, their prayer was not for themselves, not for ease, not for anything that might benefit them, but for the families who might be receiving the ultimate gift from their son: life.

So, with tears in my eyes and sadness in my heart, I forward along their request.

If you are a praying person, then pray for little Ambrose Fleming, his mom Susan, his dad Gerard, and their entire family.

And, to honor their request, pray also for those little ones lucky enough to get another chance at life because of the profound loss of the Fleming family.

The picture, by the way, is from Ambrose’s honor walk. It is the moment that a family walks their little one out of the hospital the final time.

Normally, the halls line with patients, doctors, nurses, staff, families and visitors to pay their respects to the little one who is being taken to a special offsite surgery center.

But for little Ambrose, not only were the halls lined, so was the entire street in front of the hospital.

My conversation with Gerard Fleming last week reminded me that the dreams we chase, the goals we set, and the prayers we request say much about the lives we lead.

In an all too frequently divided, angry, self-righteous and self-centered world, let's remember the sacred gift that life is, the fragility of it, the promise of heaven and the remarkable, loving sacrifice of families like the Fleming family.

It turns out one life can indeed make a difference.

Choose today to strive to be that difference in a world longing for it.

Today is your day. Live Inspired.

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1 week ago

The New York Times calls Sebastian Maniscalco “the hottest comic in America".

With sold-out comedy shows, hit television specials and interviews on all the major late-night talk shows, Sebastian's distinct style of stand-up comedy has struck a chord, bringing joy to millions during the pandemic.

Today, Sebastian shares how perseverance and hustle have been the key ingredients to attaining the success he once only dreamed of, the challenges that come with it and where he finds inspiration.

If you're looking for a good laugh or a bit of joy, this episode is for you.

Listen to #LiveInspired Podcast ep. 334 anywhere you get podcasts, including:
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1 week ago

"For you are dust. And to dust you shall return."

Was deeply moved while hearing these words tonight as our pastor marked a cross on my forehead.

My friends, as we wrap up our days, let's not allow the reality of the fragility of our lives fill us with fear of what might happen, but with hopeful confidence that the best is truly yet to come.

Rather than passively waiting for it, let's begin joyfully living it now.

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