‘What I’ve Learned’ with Burr Ridge Life Coach Jim Fannin

Burr Ridge resident and life coach Jim Fannin has a full interview in the latest issue of Esquire magazine in which he discusses everything from the power of positive thinking to a story about growing up next door to the country-music duo The Judds—and losing his childhood friend Brian, Naomi Judds’ brother, to Hodgkin’s disease.

“Brian died in the hospital in my arms, and I made up my mind that day that I would never have a bad day again,” Fannin says in the interview. “I visualized my death at his funeral. I went to the end of my life, saw everybody happy, saw me happy. I saw myself having an awesome life. And I've never had a bad day since. Not one. Not the day my dad died. Not the day my mom died. I celebrated their lives.” 

Fannin also discusses an exercise in which he claims that the negative vibes of an entire room can cause a person to completely lose the strength in their arm, which he says “is not Jim Fannin hocus-pocus. It’s why the Cubs lose.” 

“Everyone wishes there was a manual for living,” he says in the interview “I have it.” 

Read the entire interview at the Esquire website.