🌳 Top 5 Regrets Of Those On Their Deathbed

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TOP 5 REGRETS OF THOSE ON THEIR DEATHBED

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Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.

Ware writes of the phenomenal clarity of vision that people gain at the end of their lives, and how we might learn from their wisdom. "When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently," she says, "common themes surfaced again and again."

Here are the top five regrets of the dying:

1. “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me”. 

Living a life where your choices are influenced by others means you’re not really living for yourself at all.

2. “I wish I hadn’t worked so hard”. 

People work an average of 47 years of their life and end up regretting it, If that doesn’t teach you something, I don’t know what will.

3. “I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings”. 

No one has ever regretted being truthful and honest with themselves and those around them.

4. “I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends”.

Don’t live life solo, humans thrive on human connection, we are social creatures at the end of the day.

5. “I wish I had let myself be happier”.

Notice how this isn’t I wish I was happier, it’s that you have the capabilities to be happy but a lot of the time there will be something holding you back.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

These regrets are not written for you to dwell on and be sad or worried about what’s to come but to understand and see where others have gone wrong which allows you to avoid the same mistakes.

TAKEAWAYS:

Notice how there was never a regret of taking that risk, doing that bungee jump or asking that girl out. Regrets come primarily from things that were untouched, ignored or not said.

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Once you reach a certain income, there isn't much happiness or joy that comes with making more.

Joy comes from:

• Your mission

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• Your health

• Your family

• Your service to others