ReThinking Living each day like it’s your first with Suleika Jaouad
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Nov 11, 2025 
Suleika Jaouad, a resilient author known for her memoirs and passion for journaling, joins to explore the transformative power of writing. She rejects the notion of living each day as if it’s your last, advocating instead for a future-focused approach filled with curiosity. Suleika shares how journaling aided her during cancer treatment, emphasizing its role in deepening relationships and unearthing creativity. The conversation also touches on playful prompts, shared morning letters, and the balance of gravity and joy in life.
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Choose First-Day Curiosity
- Living each day as if it's your first prioritizes curiosity, playfulness, and presence over pressure to squeeze meaning from every moment.
- Suleika Jaouad finds this mindset balances present delight with future-oriented dreaming without spiritual exhaustion.
Watercolors From Fever Dreams
- During a hospital stay with impaired vision, Suleika shifted from writing to keeping a daily visual journal of her fever dreams with watercolors.
- That pivot turned fear into curiosity and sparked a lasting creative passion she hadn't expected.
Share Daily Letters In A Journal
- Do a shared journaling practice: write daily longhand letters to one another and exchange photos of the pages to deepen connection.
- Suleika and John used these letters to surface surprising topics and sustain rich conversations on the road.
