If I had one year left without slowly feeling worse because of some sickness I think I would just continue what I’m doing already but with an extreme deadline.

• make sure I make the best with my family
• finish my dissertation, a year is doable
• organize my archival/datahoarding material to be accessible to family and backed up
• make my will very clear
• maybe the biggest change I would make would be to divorce my partner so I can max out my credit cards traveling with them to see family and friends in three countries.
• maybe try to take more seriously meditation, an hour a day
• I’m not sure I would want to do anything that could hurt my family, their opinion of me, or separate me from them during that year.

Five years is such a significant amount of time I really don’t know if that could change anything. The deadlines would feel so far away.

A month would feel crazy fast. This might cause me to make more radical changes.