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Avoid the №1 Regret of the Dying
Frameworks by Tim Ferris, Tony Robbins and Jeff Bezos to create your Life Philosophy
Have you ever heard of the hospice nurse who cared for people in the last twelve weeks of their lives and wrote a best-selling book about their most often discussed regrets? At the top of the list: “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”
I read that and thought, “yeah, makes sense”. It’s funny because instinctively, we know we’d regret living a life that is not true to ourselves, so why is it still the number one regret?
Other people’s expectations obviously play a role, but I believe an even more significant factor is that we’re just not very good at knowing what goes on in our own minds. What really matters to me?
As I was working on the first edition of my newsletter, I started thinking about regrets. For years, I told myself I should’ve started a blog. I’d see other people do these things online and think, “I wish I had the [insert excuse] to do that”, “It’s too late now”, or the absolute killer: “I’m not creative enough”.
It was through writing that I started being really honest with myself about why I want to write online, and the real reasons why I wasn’t doing it. Once it’s out on…
