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Creating Your Bucket List - How to Live Your Life Without Regrets

The people you care about most and whose opinions you respect might be making it difficult for you to pursue that which is most important to you. | Image courtesy: terri.com

With billions of people living on this planet, you’d think we would have have quite a few examples of how to live a life without regret. Yet for some reason or another we’re still making decisions that lead to the same regrets time after time.

Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

Author Bronnie Ware outlines the top 5 regrets of the dying in her book titled The Top Five Regrets of the Dying – A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing after years of work in palliative care. Most of us have a bucket list. You know, that list of accomplishments we want to achieve before we die. It might include: learn another language, earn a million dollars, travel the world, go skydiving, get a Ph.D. or buy a specific type of car

Your Bucket List

There is nothing inherently wrong with putting any of these items on a bucket list. After all it’s your list and the things you want to achieve have relevance and importance to you in their own unique way. However, after reading the book and going over the top five regrets of the dying I couldn’t help but think I have been going about my goals and ambitions completely wrong.

Most of the things I’d like to accomplish are exciting, challenging, and rewarding but I had to step back for a minute and ask myself when it’s all said and done will any of those accomplishments.

Being True To Yourself

I wish I had the courage to live life true to myself. The fastest way to stress, anxiety, and unhappiness is by comparing yourself to others or trying to keep up with the Joneses. Making decisions and living your life based on the opinions of what others consider to be good and bad. There is nothing wrong with wanting to please people. It’s just important to make sure that it is aligned with what is most important to you.

Spending More Time With Family and Friends

I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. Most of those that mentioned this as a regret based it on their desire to have spent more time with their kids, significant others, and friends. However, this is just a matter of priorities as we all have the same 24 hours to use in a day. Time influences so many of the most important decisions you will ever make in your entire life.

Expressing Your True Feelings

I wish I would have expressed my true feelings. The most common reason for not fully expressing their emotions was in order to keep the peace or to avoid bitterness and resentment within personal relationships. I agree with this to a certain extent but when I think about my own personal experiences the fear of expressing my true feelings usually comes down to attempts to avoid vulnerability.

Maintaining Personal Relationships

I wish I stayed in touch with friends. Most of those who referred to this said they believed they were too wrapped up in their own lives and took for granted the importance of maintaining personal relationships.

It’s easy to simply expect significant others, friends, and other loved ones to be there for us when we need them. Sometimes you might forget that they have their own lives, priorities, and experiences to have. |  Read the full story…. lifehack.org

 

 

Terri Savelle Foy: You Have One Life; No Regrets

Regret of things you have done can last a day, a few weeks or at most a few years, but regret of things you didn’t do can last a lifetime. In this video, Terri Savelle Foy shares with you the 4 steps to living a life of no regret.

Wisdom Quote:  “When what you see in your imagination is bigger than what you see in your reality, you will begin to attract the ideas, opportunities, resources, faith and relationships necessary to pursue those dreams.” – Terri Savelle Foy

 

 

More resources:

https://patch.com/new-york/northfork/caring-volunteer-creates-bucket-list-dreams-dying-dogCaring Volunteer Creates Bucket List Of Dreams For Dying Dog

NORTH FORK, NY — A woman with a heart of gold has created a bucket list of dreams for a dying dog who’s left an indelible impression on her life. Sasha, a sweet-natured homeless dog who has won hearts, but never been blessed with a forever home, is now …

 

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/lets-learn-english-level-2-lesson-30/4465315.htmlLesson 30: Dream a Little Dream

ANNA: You know, I used to dream of being a nurse. It is such an honorable career … Jonathan, I’ve been wondering something: What’s at the top of your bucket list? JONATHAN: That’s easy. I’d love to win the World Karaoke Contest.

 

http://www.philly.com/philly/health/magee-wheelchair-accessible-sail-impossible-dream-20180706.htmlFor wheelchair users, this vessel means sailing no longer is an ‘Impossible Dream’

Then he discovered the Impossible Dream, a sailing group with a fully wheelchair-accessible … took former patients from Magee Rehabilitation Hospital out sailing. The experience was “a bucket-list day” for Lisa Haring-Davner of Montgomery County.

 

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying (Book) | Bronnie Ware

Bronnie Ware Book - The Top Five Regrets of the Dying

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying (Book) by Bronnie Ware

After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or experience, she found herself in palliative care. Over the years she spent tending to the needs of those who were dying, Bronnie’s life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog about the most common regrets expressed to her by the people she had cared for.

The article, also called ‘The Top Five Regrets of the Dying’, was read by more than three million people around the globe in its first year. At the requests of many, Bronnie now shares her own personal story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse past, but by applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for people, if they make the right choices, to die with peace of mind.

In this book, she expresses in a heartfelt retelling how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. | Learn more…

 

 

See also: Health & Wellness Channel| Self Improvement Solutions at Elevate Christian Network

 

 

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Cee Harmon is the founder of Elevate Christian Network and Elevate Your Potential Magazine. He enjoys helping people improve the quality of their lives - spirit, soul, and body.
 
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