How Many Heartbeats Will You Get?

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How does my heart keep beating?

It’s absolutely amazing when you think about the fact that the human heart starts beating only 22 days after conception and doesn’t stop until death. On average, a person’s heart will beat 42,075,904 times in a year!

So how does my heart keep beating?

As you might know, I was born with multiple Congenital Heart Defects, which means that my heart formed incorrectly in the womb. You are probably familiar with the sound of a normal human heart. My heart sounds completely different. If you want to actually hear my heart, you can click the “play” button at the top of this post to hear the podcast audio version of this mesage.

When I was eighteen I met a cardiologist who told me that he and his medical team hoped that I’d live to be 30 years old. As you can imagine, coming to terms with that news at 18 was incredibly painful and difficult. However, it gave me a lot of insights and taught me a great deal about mortality.

That is why I became a professional speaker. My speeches and workshops, and now my book, teach people about the incredible joy and power that is to be found in embracing your own mortality.

Last March I turned 35! So I come back to my original question: How does my heart keep beating? And when will it stop?

Hey – here’s an even better question: How does YOUR heart keep beating? And when will IT stop?